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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
TU’s Jake Lemon sees promise in a stream anglers breeze past to get to the Pere Marquette.
In May of 2024, the Oak Brook Trout Unlimited chapter traveled to the Driftless Area for their annual fishing visit. But in addition to the chapter’s usual fishing and stewarding their section of highway near Viroqua, magnanimous chapter member Dave Carlson also offered to give TUDARE a preview of the eDNA sampling methods the chapter has…
Perhaps no place in Montana illustrates a more striking juxtaposition between an iconic fishery nestled within an over-exploited landscape than the Clark Fork watershed. The Clark Fork is one of the state’s most popular angling destinations; by the time it flows out of Montana, it has become the state’s largest river. Native westslope cutthroat and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 30, 2021Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President for Government Affairs, Trout Unlimited smoyer@tu.org; (571) 274-0593 Sweeping infrastructure legislation introduced, headed for consideration on Senate floor New bill includes many provisions that will help coldwater conservation, but omits critical provisions championed by Trout Unlimited, including failure to support Rep. Simpson’s Snake River salmon…
By Jason Willis The Kerber Creek watershed comprises just over 64,000 acres in the northern San Luis Valley of Colorado. The headwaters drain through the historic Bonanza Mining District, which is littered with left over draining adits and mine waste/tailing piles from decades of mining. Several flood events in the 1900s breached dams in the…
The Tongass National Forest is often referred to as America’s Salmon Forest because the entire ecosystem depends on salmon in one way or another. Salmon can be traced all the way to the trees, and the cycle runs full circle. Animals that feed on salmon drag the carcasses into forest, effectively applying thousands of pounds…
Students across the world have been significantly impacted by feelings of isolation as a result of COVID-19. One method for reducing this impact is motivating students by introducing them to enrichment opportunities taught by local experts
Trout Unlimited is leading a major project to protect clean water in the New Jersey Highlands, as a member of the Delaware River Watershed Initiat ive (DRWI). The William Penn Foundation announced more than $40 million in new funding for the DRWI, which is among the country’s largest non-governmental conservation efforts to protect and restore…
Raymond Phares (left) of Circleville, W.Va., traveled to Washington DC in late March to meet with Congressional offices in support of funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program. He was accompanied by Trout Unlimited’s Dustin Wichterman, who oversee’s TU’s restoration efforts in the up per Potomac watershed. By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited staffers and volunteers converged…
When you think of Farm Bill conservation, what comes to mind? Maybe fields full of pheasants or ringed by deer stands? Prairie potholes for waterfowl? What about fish – perhaps a little farm pond full of bluegills and bass? Our friends at the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership put together an excellent overview of how…
TU stream sampling efforts recently turned up wild brook trout in Pennsylvania’s Twomile Run, a stream in the Kettle Creek watershed that had been dead for decades due to abandoned mine drainage that was addressed by passive treatment systems. By Amy Wolfe With some projects, the results are immediately tangible. Take for instance a project…
