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Reconnection Report Card — New York Priority Waters 

Published in Barrier removal

Trout Unlimited’s staff and municipal partners continue to work diligently to complete a wide-spanning list of New York priority culvert surveys and replacements. The reconnection of fragmented and dammed rivers resides at the core of our strategy to improve habitat for New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, we reconnected over 30…

Trout Unlimited lauds conservation benefits in House Farm Bill

For Immediate Release April 13, 2018 Contact: Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Laura Ziemer, lziemer@tu.org, (406) 599-2606 Corey Fisher, cfisher@tu.org, (406) 546-2979 Trout Unlimited lauds conservation benefits in House Farm Bill Washington, D.C.House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conoway yesterday introduced Republican-authored legislation for reauthorizing the Farm Bill, which expires Sept. 30. The bill reauthorizes many…

Raising trout — and raising environmental stewards in New York

Published in Community, Conservation, Youth

A young New York student watches a trout swim away at a Trout in the Classroom release. (New York City DEP photo) By Lillit Genovesi “The trout babies have hatched!” “How come they aren’t swimming?” “Are they happy?” Several inquisitive young Brooklynites crowd around a fish tank. A busy classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., might seem…

NFWF grants to bolster TU’s brook trout work in Appalachia

Published in Conservation

Brook trout will get a boost from newly funded projects in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.  Trout Unlimited was among several organizations to earn grant awards from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through the organization’s Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program.  A $140,000 grant will be used toward a restoration and monitoring project in the Cross…

The long game: TU and the Yuba River

Published in Uncategorized

Getting bent on the lower Yuba River. The Yuba River is one of California’s many coldwater fishery jewels. In its upper forks the Yuba is a fine freestone trout stream; in the reach between Englebright Dam, where the river flows into the Central Valley, and its confluence with the Feather River near Marysville, the Yuba…

TU awarded $750K for projects in Upper Delaware

Published in Conservation

Trout Unlimited has received three federal grant awards totaling nearly $750,000 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for stream protection and restoration projects in the upper Delaware River watershed.   These grant awards support the conservation goals of the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with NFWF. Thanks to…

Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery

5/23/2000 Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Contact: 5/23/2000 — — Contacts: David Bobzien, President, Trout Unlimited’s Sagebrush Chapter, Reno: (775) 324-6216 Steve Trafton, Trout Unlimited’s California Policy Coordinator: (510) 528-4772 May 23, 2000. Reno, NevadaTrout Unlimited,…

The Headwaters Pacific NW Program

Just over 10 years ago we launched a new Deschutes Education program along the wild and scenic Crooked River, with student field trips connected to our conservation goals and projects. Over the past years, we have worked with students from 9 distinct communities, and provided field trips to 4 local watersheds. Students have supported and…

Trout Unlimited Celebrates Rangeley Settlement

7/28/1999 Trout Unlimited Celebrates Rangeley Settlement Trout Unlimited Celebrates Rangeley Settlement Deal Boosts Flows For World Class Brook Trout Fishery, Contact: 7/28/1999 — — Rangeley Lakes, Maine July 29, 1999 Trout Unlimited joined several conservation groups, state and federal agencies, Maine Governor Angus King and others in celebrating a final settlement governing the operation of…

Headwaters program expanding in Pacific Northwest thanks to new partner

Published in Headwaters

“This is the kind of program I would have loved to participate in as a child. I was a restless kid who really needed more than a day of sitting at a desk.” Tom Brennan, CEO of School Outfitters, said. “School Outfitters is excited to support kids learning in these active and real-world experiences.”