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Massachusetts brook trout conservation area growing
Franklin Land Trust recently acquired for conservation 154 acres in Heath, Mass., abutting its 96-acre Crowningshield Conservation Area, also in Heath. The purchase — which took place on June 25, 2020, from the Gudell Family — increases the size of a tract important for protection and conservation of native brook trout. It was supported by funding…
Play, learn, serve, lead
Fifteen years before National Volunteer Week was officially recognized, Trout Unlimited (TU) was founded on a revolutionary premise: grassroots volunteers would anchor our work in the watersheds, communities and riverbeds of our mission.
TU TV Reaches One Million ESPN2 Viewers
11/17/1999 TU TV Reaches One Million ESPN2 Viewers TU TV Reaches One Million ESPN2 Viewers Audience Taking Advantage of Show’s New Website, www.TUTV.org Contact: 11/17/1999 — — Trout Unlimited Television’s (TUTV) ESPN2 series has hit the ground running in its second season, attracting a cumulative audience of one million viewers through its first five weeks,…
TU lauds new Forest Service guidelines for groundwater
May 2, 2014 Contact: Laura Ziemer, (406) 522-7291 x 103, lziemer@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited praises Forest Service for tackling groundwater rules to protect headwaters and fishing New groundwater policy a needed step to steward water resources and prized fisheriesin the face of climate change, drought (Washington, D.C.) Trout Unlimited today praised the Forest…
Trout Unlimited, Mendocino County RCD awarded major grant to boost streamflows, improve water security in key Eel River tributary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matt Clifford, Trout Unlimited mclifford@tu.org 406-370-9431Patty Madigan, Mendocino County RCD pmad@mcn.org 707-937-3082 Trout Unlimited, Mendocino County RCD awarded major grantto boost streamflows, improve water security in key Eel River tributary Wildlife Conservation Board grant will help residents reduce impacts of water diversions on native salmon and steelhead (March 20, 2017) UKIAH,…
Major advance for Bristol Bay protections
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step forward in finalizing Clean Water Act protections for the Bristol Bay region and its globally significant salmon fisheries.
TU urges public comment on new designation for PA streams
A fine wild trout from Glade Run, southwest Pennsylvania By David Kinney Paradise Creek, Tank Creek, and Devils Hole Creek are small freestone streams running through an area of the Poconos in northeast Pennsylvania that is 90 percent forest and water. All these waters harbor healthy populations of wild trout, and the Brodhead Chapter of…
Simms, TU partner to focus on the Gallatin in Montana
“Three cheers to Simms for stepping up to help Trout Unlimited protect and recover the river that defines their community”
Legacy Roads and Trails Act gets a fresh face in Congress
U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier champions bill that grants more funding for national forest management By Steve Miller Recently, I was fortunate to have been included in a group invited to ‘take a hike’ with U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Washington) to discuss TU’s support for her proposed Legacy Roads and Trails Act. Rep. Schrier loves and…
Conservation leader Emily Olsen joins Trout Unlimited as Vice President for Rocky Mountain Region
Olsen will lead TU’s trout and salmon conservation, habitat restoration, and advocacy programs in the Rockies. Contacts: ARLINGTON, Va.— Conservation leader Emily Olsen has joined Trout Unlimited as Vice President for the Rocky Mountain Region, the organization announced this week. Based outside Denver, Olsen will lead TU’s coldwater conservation, habitat restoration, and advocacy programs in…
U.S. Forest Service and Trout Unlimited announce new, innovative partnership for post-fire recovery in Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
8-year, $10 million partnership will restore aquatic systems lost in the two largest wildfires in Colorado history Contacts: (September 19, 2023) – In 2020, the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests experienced the two largest wildfires in the history of Colorado (Cameron Peak at approximately 208,000 acres and East Troublesome at approximately 193,000 acres), in addition…
Biden expands San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
There are only a handful of streams in all of southern California where one can fish for trout. The East and West Forks of the San Gabriel River are two of them.
Dam removal in Catskills will make fishing even better on Mongaup Creek
Separated by several years, two events are working together to make a great trout stream in the Catskills even better.
Creating hope again, again, and again
Remembering a stalwart of the Forest Service
Statement of Trout Unlimited on the Administration's "Healthy Forest" Legislative Proposal
Statement of Trout Unlimited on the Administration’s “Healthy Forest” Legislative Proposal Statement of Trout Unlimited on the Administrations Healthy Forest Legislative Proposal Contact: Chris Wood Director of Watershed Programs TU 703-284-9403 9/9/2002 — Arlington, Virginia — Trout Unlimited (TU), North Americas largest trout and salmon resource conservation organization, opposes a bill proposal provided by Secretaries…
Trout Unlimited Leads Opposition to Public Lands Fire-Sale
12/5/2005 December 5, 2005 Contact: Brian ODonnell, Director, TU Public Lands Initiative, (970) 903-0276 or bodonnell@tu.org Trout Unlimited Leads Opposition to Public Lands Fire-Sale Washington – Trout Unlimited (TU), North Americas largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, is leading the opposition to legislation that that would allow public lands to be sold to mining companies and…
TU and Navy Agree to Protect Fisheries on Navy Lands
9/21/2000 TU and Navy Agree to Protect Fisheries on Navy Lands TU and Navy Agree to Protect Fisheries on Navy Lands Agreement will help to protect some endangered, threatened trout and salmon species Contact: 9/21/2000 — — Contact: Alan Moore, Western Communications Coordinator, Trout Unlimited: (503) 827-5700 September 21, 2000. Arlington, VATrout Unlimited has signed…
Anglers deeply disappointed in climate change decision
Anglers deeply disappointed in decision to withdraw from Paris Climate AccordTrout and salmon highly susceptible to impacts of climate change CONTACT:Shauna Stephenson / Trout Unlimited ssherard@tu.org / (307) 757-7861 (June 1, 2017) WASHINGTON D.C. The Trump Administration announced today that it would withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Accord. Chris Wood, President and CEO of…
New grant will help Van Duzen River coho, steelhead
Floodplain habitat connectivity improvement project site, Lawrence Creek TU’s North Coast Coho Project has been awarded a major grant to underwrite the first year of a three-year project to restore floodplain habitat connectivity in Lawrence Creek, a tributary to Yager Creek in the Van Duzen River drainage in Humboldt County, California. The Lawrence Creek Reconnection…