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House passes Moving Forward Act

Published in Conservation, Featured

“Clean water and healthy waterways are critical elements of the Nation’s infrastructure system,” said Chris Wood, president and CEO of Trout Unlimited. “They are rightly recognized as such by the ‘Moving Forward Act.’ Today, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we can see that more clearly than ever before. As individuals, we need clean water to wash our hands and to drink. As communities, we need healthy waterways to sustain our farms, fisheries, our recreation, and our economies

Ambitious TU volunteers making progress on Battenkill

Published in Community, Conservation, Fishing

Adding large wood to streams can help narrow over-widened channels and also provide a place for trout to hide from predators such as mergansers, which have been found to be decimating trout of certain sizes in the Battenkill. By John Braico The storied Battenkill, long recognized as a challenging river among anglers, faced a steep…

Infrastructure going green in Rogue River watershed

Published in Conservation

By Jamie Vaughan Hairy Penstemon is blooming at the Parkside Elementary Rain Garden in Michigan. This rain garden is a type of green infrastructure utilizing native plants to help developed areas function more naturally, thus keeping polluted and warmed stormwater runoff out of Rum Creek. We were out in the community with Abigail Henschell (pictured above),…

Thompson's Salmon Recovery Bill Passes House

6/13/2001 Thompson’s Salmon Recovery Bill Passes House Thompson’s Salmon Recovery Bill Passes House Habitat Restoration Legislation Seeks to Reverse Species Decline on Pacific Coast Contact: 6/13/2001 — — June 13, 2001 Washington, DC – A key salmon recovery funding measure, HR 1157, sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), passed the House today. The Northern Californian’s…

South Coast TU awarded 2018 Vamos a Pescar Grant

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The LA River is the setting for South Coast TU’s community outreach and instruction under a new grant from the Vamos a Pescar Education Fund. TU’s South Coast Chapter, based in Orange County, California, has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to provide instruction, equipment, and support for…

Is this Heaven?

Published in Voices from the river, Featured
A view up a canyon in eastern Idaho.

I had just finished leveling the camper when Morgan pulled up in his white sedan. It’s a process—leveling the camper—made a bit more complicated thanks to a slightly hyper mutt running around while I work the jacks, wondering why we can’t just go straight to the creek

Trout Unlimited Thanks Departing Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau 

Contacts:  Arlington, VA – The U.S. Department of Interior announced today that Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau is stepping down at the end of the month after a combined 10 years at the agency, including the last two as deputy secretary, where he oversaw initiatives including protecting over 13 million acres of public land in Alaska,…

Salmon Superhwy program gets boost from Joint Chiefs

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Russ Schnitzer photos By Warren Colyer The ambitious Salmon Superhwy (yes, that is the correct spelling) fish passage program in Oregon is among the programs that will benefit from a recently announced funding boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Trout Unlimited is one of a host of partners in the Salmon Superhwy project, the…

Project opens habitat on NC’s Roaring Creek

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By Andy Brown Trout Unlim ited’s Roaring Creek project is in Avery County in the Roan Highlands region in the Appalachian Ranger District of the Pisgah National Forest and in the North Toe River watershed. The project was one of five staff-led projects completed in 2017 by TU in North Carolina, and was a private…

Progress on the back 40

Published in Conservation, Community

The great conservationist, Aldo Leopold, once wrote that “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none…

Trout Unlimited, partners receive $8 million grant for habitat restoration

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Trout Unlimited and partners at the Natural Resources Conservation Service working on wetland restoration By Jamie Vaughan Trout Unlimited and partners have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program that will promote conservation efforts in the Lower Grand River Watershed. In the Rogue River, as part of TU’s Home Rivers…

Congress must act to reform ancient mining laws

Published in Government Affairs, Featured

Abandoned hardrock mines create some of the most significant water quality problems facing our country, but in Congress we have an opportunity to invest in cleaning up pollution of the past, while modernizing our mining laws so we don’t face the same issues in the future

Vote for Utah’s hunting and fishing heritage

Published in Advocacy

In 1777, a dozen years before the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Vermont passed the first state constitutional provision providing for the right to hunt and fish. Since 1996, over 20 other states, many in the West, have adopted similar amendments