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Trout Unlimited Supports New Federal Strategy for Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Restoration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact:Steve Moyer, Vice President of Government Affairs (703) 284-9406 smoyer@tu.org Trout Unlimited Supports New Federal Strategy for Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Restoration Strategy describes targets and tools for restoration efforts. ARLINGTON, Va.–Trout Unlimited (TU) applauds the work of the Federal Leadership Committee for the Chesapeake Bay on its finalized strategy for protecting and…

Go Rogue with the Rogue Forest Cooperative

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By Jamie Vaughan It’s not by accident that the Rogue River in southern Michigan offers some of the best trout fishing in the state. This urban river, just minutes from sprawling Grand Rapids, boasts robust brown trout populations and some of the Great Lakes finest steelhead, reminiscent of a more remote, northern Michigan trout stream.…

Go Rogue with the Rogue Forest Cooperative

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By Jamie Vaughan It’s not by accident that the Rogue River in southern Michigan offers some of the best trout fishing in the state. This urban river, just minutes from sprawling Grand Rapids, boasts robust brown trout populations and some of the Great Lakes finest steelhead, reminiscent of a more remote, northern Michigan trout stream.…

Brook Trout Return To Stream After Years of Restoration

Contact: Amy Wolfe, Director, TU Eastern Abandoned Mine Program570-786-9562, awolfe@tu.org For Immediate Release: Brook Trout Return To Stream After Years of Restoration Fish return after 13 years of work on abandoned mine clean-up. LOCK HAVEN, PA After over a decade of work by Trout Unlimited (TU) repairing damage from abandoned coal mine drainage in the…

Trout Unlimited receives EPA grant to expand STREAM Girls

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By Jamie Vaughan Trout Unlimited staff in Michigan are excited to announce the expansion of the STREAM Girls program throughout the state thanks to a recently awarded grant through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Education Program.  The goal of expanding Trout Unlimited’s STREAM Girls Program is to educate more than 275 girls, 35 partners and volunteers, and 1,000 community members…

New Michigan program connects students with local farm 

Published in Conservation

By Jamie Vaughan  In 2018 Trout Unlimited recently kicked off a new pilot program, Seasons on the Farm, in partnership with the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds, Plainsong Farm, and the Kent Conservation District. Seasons on the Farm aims to provide practical, immersive farm-based environmental education for middle school students in the Rogue River watershed. Through a series…

Rocky Mountain Flycasters

VISION: As a chapter of Trout Unlimited, a national conservation organization, Rocky Mountain Flycasters will use all accessible resources to help ensure that robust populations of wild and native cold-water fish thrive within the Cache La Poudre and Big Thompson River watersheds. MISSION: To conserve, protect, sustain and restore Northern Colorado’s cold-water fisheries and their…

Michigan students connect to the environment through farming

Published in Conservation, Youth

By Jamie Vaughan Trout Unlimited recently kicked off a new pilot program, Seasons on the Farm, in partnership with the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds, Plainsong Farm, and the Kent Conservation District in Michigan. Seasons on the Farm aims to provide practical, immersive farm-based environmental education for middle school students in the Rogue River…

Trout Unlimited praises San Juan Mountains wilderness bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2018 Contact: Garrett Hanks, TU Southwest Public Lands Coordinator, ghanks@tu.org, 970-590-9367 Legislation would help protect San Miguel watershed, native cutthroat trout (Ridgway)Trout Unlimited today praised Sen. Michael Bennet for introducing his San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, a bill that would establish permanent land protections, including wilderness additions, in the Upper…

Meadows repair helps rare Eagle Lake rainbow

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The intersection of Little Harvey Creek and Pine Creek, aptly named Confluence Meadow. By Dave Lass and Luke Hunt, PhD In the Eagle Lake watershed, located east of Lassen Volcanic National Park, a diverse collection of local, state and federal partners are working to restore some of the largest meadow systems in California, and to…

Trout Unlimited Receives Prestigious American Fisheries Society Award for Work in PA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary: (571) 331-7970emooney@tu.org Trout Unlimited Receives Prestigious American Fisheries Society AwardEastern Abandoned Mine Program receives distinction for work in Pennsylvania Arlington, Va. Trout Unlimited’s Eastern Abandoned Mine Program (EAMP) was recently honored with one of the American Fisheries Society’s (AFS) highest awards, the Presidents Fishery Conservation Award.…

Trout Unlimited praises Superfund solution for Animas River

TU Press Release Feb. 22, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ty Churchwell, tchurchwell@tu.org, cell: 970-903-3010 Buck Skillen, bskillen759@gmail.com, 970-759-2726 Randy Scholfield, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Trout Unlimited praises Superfund solution for Animas watershed (Durango, Colo.)Colorado Trout Unlimited leaders today praised Silverton and county officials approval of a proposed Superfund listing in San Juan County to…

Hermosa Creek bill passes Senate committee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 13, 2014 Contact: Ty Churchwell, 970-903-3010, tchurchwell@tu.org Hermosa Creek bill passes Senate committee Legislation conserves outstanding Colorado backcountry hunting and fishing lands (Durango, Colo.) The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved a bill to preserve the Hermosa Creek watershed, a wild backcountry area just north of Durango prized for…

Fishermen and Tour Operators Press Congress to Protect Tongass Salmon and Trout Watersheds

Contact:Paula Dobbyn, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, Director of Communications, pdobbyn@tu.org, or (907) 230-1513Austin Williams, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Forest Program Manager, awilliams@tu.org, or (907) 227-1590 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fishermen and Tour Operators Press Congress to Protect Tongass Salmon and Trout Watersheds The Tongass 77 Proposal Would Help Guarantee a Self-Sustaining, Economic Engine Juneau, Alaska A delegation…

Trout Unlimited Issues First-Ever Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund grants

Contact:Erin Mooney, Trout Unlimited, (215) 557-2845, emooney@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Issues First-Ever Coldwater Grants awarded by conservation group support land protection projects throughout Chesapeake Bay watershed. WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited issued its first-ever Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund grants to land trusts seeking to acquire land and conservation easements that protect native trout habitat…

Upper James River Home Rivers Initiative

Goals The Upper James River watershed drains more than 3,000 square miles of western Virginia encompassing 10 counties and hundreds of tributary streams — the lifeblood of the James River. The majority of these mountain streams and high valley creeks historically sustained abundant populations of native brook trout and provided a steady source of clean…