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By Brian Johnson It’s been a busy and amazingly productive year for Trout Unlimited in California. With the help of our 10,000 California members and our dozens of agency and project partners, we reached major milestones on many of ou r highest priority initiatives. All of these highlight TU’s successful formula for protecting and restoring…
STATE OF THE BASIN For far too long, the Colorado River has been overused and overworked. Despite this year’s epic winter, the system’s largest reservoirs are still less than a third full, while the Basin faces threats to its environmental, economic, and cultural values. With so much at stake for the future of the Colorado…
Trout Unlimited works with a wide variety of partners in California to conserve, protect and restore trout and salmon populations and their habitats. For many years, one of our primary partners in our effort to recover native Coho salmon and steelhead in coastal watersheds was the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration (CEMAR). CEMAR closed…
A new agreement promises to resolve decades of conflict over water use on California’s third largest watershed––and a legendary salmon and steelhead river
Among the many charms of autumn is the advent of steelhead runs in many rivers. Where I live, on the central California coast, most streams aren’t yet connected to the ocean—until the rainy season begins in earnest, the sandbars that have set up over the summer between their mouths and the salt remain intact. That…
“But mitigation alone won’t be enough. TU’s continued support of programs and policies geared towards carbon reduction and climate change mitigation will be critical in keeping our coldwater fisheries of today, coldwater fisheries of tomorrow. Our practice of using sound science in decision making has made us among the most respected environmental organization in the nation – when TU speaks, decision makers listen. We’ll need to continue to flex our voices.”
Fish Gods is an environmental company that engages outdoor enthusiasts to clean up watersheds, protecting their sustainability. The company’s mission is to be the movement that unites the largest recreational group in the world to take action and reduce pollution across the globe. In order to do that, Fish Gods is producing and selling an…
Downeast Trout Unlimited (DETU) is dedicated to conserving, protecting, and restoring Maine’s cold water fisheries and their watersheds. It covers the downeast area of Maine from the Penobscot River east to the Canadian border.. We meet in person and via zoom monthly from October to May on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Membership is…
We are a collective of conservation-minded anglers in the Mount Washington Valley, located in and around the popular recreational town of North Conway, New Hampshire. Our name comes from our home river, the mighty Saco, which extends some 136 miles through New Hampshire and Maine, eventually emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is our job…
11/24/2006 Sport Fishing Industry Leaders Blast Pebble Mine Proposal November 24, 2006 CONTACTS: Tim Bristol, Trout Unlimited, (907) 321-3291 Robert Ramsay, American Fly Fishing Trade Association, (706) 355-3804 Jim Bartschi, Scott Fly Rods, (800) 728-7208 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sport Fishing Industry Leaders Blast Pebble Mine Proposal Full-Page Ads in Fish Alaska and Fly Fisherman Magazines…
Jan. 15, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, (703) 284-9403 Tim Bristol, Director of TU Alaska, (907) 321-3291 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EPA Report: Pebble Mine will Damage $1.5 Billion Bristol Bay Fishery in Spectacular Alaska Landscape Trout Unlimited and Sportsmen Across U.S. Call for Immediate Action ANCHORAGE, AlaskaThe Environmental Protection Agencys final Bristol Bay…
SWIFT logos.png March 29, 2016 Contact: Carson Cox, American Rivers/River Right, (415) 383-1788, ccox@americanrivers.org Chris Alford, Alford Environmental, (530) 848-6211, alfordenvironmental@gmail.com Lisa Park, The Nature Conservancy, (408) 821-9255, lpark@tnc.org Mary Ann King, Trout Unlimited, (510) 649-9987, mking@tu.org Sari Sommarstrom, Scott River Water Trust, (530) 467-5783, sari@sisqtel.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SWIFT launches A Practitioners Guide to…
Trout Unlimited launched the Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative in 2020. Orvis has chosen the program as the beneficiary of its Giving Tuesday efforts on Nov. 30, 2021, pledging 10 percent of profits to the program.
We’re closer than ever to gaining long-awaited Clean Water Act safeguards.
For the past twenty years Trout Unlimited has worked up and down the state to improve in-stream conditions for California’s salmon and steelhead. The tactics we have pioneered and implemented in this effort have proven consistently effective in helping recover salmonids.