TU and supporters continue to help communities impacted by Hurricane Helene
Recent events have included tree plantings and tree giveaways in North Carolina and Tennessee
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Land Conservancy Fund
Trout Unlimited’s Land Conservancy Fund is a matching grant program designed to provide chapters and councils with grants to help with land protection projects, including conservation easements and land trust or agency acquisition and/or ownership of properties that are a priority for native and wild trout and salmon populations. The program is administered by the…
Spot trout, catch trout, photograph trout… for science
By harnessing the power of angler catch data, it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify individual fish from angler-submitted photos.
Fish Passage to Be Restored on Cabin Creek
Contacts:Nick Gann, Rocky Mountain Communications Director at Trout Unlimited, nick.gann@tu.orgJustin Laycock, Greys River Ranger District Ranger at USDA, United States Forest Service, justin.laycock@usda.gov Bridger-Teton National Forest, WY – This fall, Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Bridger-Teton National Forest will begin construction on a project to restore fish passage on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the…
Clean water protections weakened under new EPA rule
The proposed rule eliminates protections for intermittent and ephemeral streams and further reduce protections for wetlands, tributaries, and water bodies across the country. Contacts: Arlington, Virginia – This week, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers jointly released a proposed rule that would strip Clean Water Act protection from millions of acres of…
Red light — Green light
By Chris Wood The other morning, my friend, Brent Fewell, an attorney who worked at the EPA under President George W. Bush, wrote: “Had dinner and a very encouraging conversation last evening with seven prominent GOP Senators who want to make the environment and conservation a greater priority for the GOP, a return to Teddy…
TU Five Rivers Odyssey: A future for salmon and Bristol Bay students
Photos courtesy Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy. Teaching young adults about the significance of salmon conservation is one of the best methods to ensure our fishy friends’ existence in the future. Corporations and non-profit organizations in Alaska have teamed up to make sure that this effort goes full send. The Bristol Bay Fly…
New SweetWater beer and #fishforafish campaign benefits brookies
By Mark Taylor Who isn’t drawn to beer featuring really great trout artwork on cans and packaging? And how great is it when that beer is not only super tasty, but also benefits wild trout? SweetWater Brewery’s new fall seasonal, Mosaic Hazy IPA, checks all the boxes. It’s a juicy, fruity, moderately hoppy (65 IBUs)…
Advocacy Committee Resources
TU relies on volunteer leaders working in collaboration with staff to bring the coldwater conservation mission to life through advocacy efforts, hands-on restoration and community engagement work. Because TU members have planted willows, removed riverside trash, taught the next generation to care about our watersheds, and much more… when TU members speak-up for trout and…
2018 Was a Wet Blanket
The fly shop conversation at my last visit was about how few times any of us were able to go trout fishing during 2018 because of all the rain.
PA protects 95 new stream sections, introduces voluntary permits for conservation
By Rob Shane At the January meeting of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, 95 stream sections were approved for Wild Trout (69) and Class A (26) designations. These streams, including a section of the famed Spruce Creek in Huntingdon County, will now receive upgraded levels of protection from development and wastewater discharge. During the…
Salmon SuperHwy
Successful because of people like you, the Salmon SuperHwy project is an unprecedented effort to restore access for fish to almost 180 miles of blocked habitat throughout six major salmon and steelhead rivers of Oregon’s North Coast —watersheds that represent some of the richest salmon and steelhead recovery potential anywhere in the lower 48 states.…
Redband Trout
Redband Trout in the Upper Klamath Basin of Oregon are unique creatures. Outside of Alaska, redband trout in the Upper Klamath are the largest-bodied strain of native rainbow trout that remain in freshwater their entire lives. Fish over 24 inches are common and 30-inch trout are caught each year. Trout Unlimited staff from Klamath Falls,…
New land deal will benefit Carmel River steelhead
Fishing the Carmel River lagoon during steelhead season. In his 1945 novel Cannery Row, John Steinbeck called the Carmel River, on California’s central coast, “a lovely little river… [with] pools where trout live … a place for fishermen to wander in.” In those days the Carmel was a well-known fishery and hosted a robust run…
Culverts, flooding and native trout in Wisconsin
By Chris Collier Culverts aren’t exactly known to be a reason that people get on a river, but that’s exactly what happened on a warm May afternoon in northern Wisconsin. On a beautiful Northwoods spring day, more than 50 local government, tribal, state, federal and non-profit representatives gathered in Laona, Wisc., to learn about road…
Congress introduces bipartisan bill to recover fish and wildlife
On Friday, July 12, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), along with 59 members of Congress introduced the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA). Click here to see a letter to Congress signed by TU and a broad coalition of conservation and sportsmen’s organizations in support of the bill. The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act…
Fighting brush and fighting browns in the Driftless
By Duke Welter On a recent morning near Viroqua, Wisc., an angler didn’t know what to expect. Temperatures the day before had reached the upper 80s, the latest in a hot string. Overnight rains had some impact. Fields were wet and larger waters ran cloudy, but weren’t unfishable. Heading first to one of the “forks”…
Best. Idea. Ever.
By Corey Fisher Over four decades ago Congress declared that “it is the policy of the United States that…the public lands be retained in Federal ownership”. These words were part of the Federal Lands Management Policy Act of 1976 and they marked a point in our nation’s history in which public lands – the 640 million acres of…
Road-stream crossing training draws a crowd in Wisconsin
By Chris Collier Following up on our road-stream crossing (RSX) tour last May, Trout Unlimited and our partners recently organized and hosted a two-day RSX Technical Workshop in Crandon, Wisc. The workshop was organized to teach tribes, town and county governments, road managers, and conservation professionals why existing RSX practices are harming fish populations by…
Remembering Russell Chatham
Editor’s Note: Few people have had more influence on steelhead fishing and its proponents than author and artist Russell Chatham, who passed away recently. Chatham’s writing, painting, and appearance in films helped promote both the art and science of fly fishing for steelhead and the growing sense of loss as steelhead runs in coastal streams…