Tag Archives: Erin Mooney

On the Rise TV Show Guest Lands Probable World-Record Trout

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Erin Mooney

It’s a fish story about the one that didn’t get away, and you can see it this week on Trout Unlimited: On the Rise, airing exclusively on Sportsman Channel. During filming of the episode earlier this year on Nevada’s Pyramid … Continue reading →

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Cash for Rainbows on Idaho’s South Fork Snake River

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Erin Mooney

On Idaho’s South Fork Snake River, a bounty is being offered for non-native rainbow trout, in an effort to save the river’s native Yellowstone cutthroats. Idaho Fish and Game, along with TU, have developed a competition with cash incentives for … Continue reading →

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Trout Unlimited: On the Rise Debuts On Sportsman Channel

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Erin Mooney

Great trout fishing almost always has a great conservation story behind it, and Trout Unlimited: On the Rise, the television show from the nation’s largest coldwater conservation group covers both big-fish and big-habitat stories in spades when it makes its … Continue reading →

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West Virginia TU Council Votes to Ban Drilling

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Erin Mooney

The West Virginia TU council voted to ban drilling in the Monongahela National Forest– an area with some of the best last remaining brook trout populations in the East. This is the first time a TU council has taken a … Continue reading →

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Contemporary Sportsman Magazine: A Definite Cure for the Winter Blues

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Erin Mooney

The first issue of the online magazine, The Contemporary Sportsman, has been published, and it has arrived right on time, when winter seems interminable and tying flies isn’t fully curing the need to get out and wet a line. With … Continue reading →

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TU Remembers Sam Hamilton

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Erin Mooney

TU mourns the passing of a great friend, Sam Hamilton, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Hamilton, 54, died on February 20 of an apparent heart attack while skiing in Keystone, Colo. Hamilton had served in the … Continue reading →

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Chris Wood to Become New CEO of TU

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Erin Mooney

Chris Wood, currently TU’s Chief Operating Officer, will become CEO on February 1.  He will succeed Charles Gauvin, who has been TU’s CEO since 1991. Trout Unlimited’s board of trustees approved the succession plan at its meeting last week in … Continue reading →

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Vote For Jim Range As Budweiser Conservationist of the Year

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Erin Mooney

Former TU Trustee Jim Range, who died earlier this year, has been nominated for the Budweiser Conservationist of the Year Award. To vote, go to their web site. Votes are being accepted through December 15, 2009. Jim Range was a … Continue reading →

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TU Member Reels In Potential World-Record Trout

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Erin Mooney

Tom Healy’s phone has been ringing off the hook. People he hasn’t heard from in 25 years have called to congratulate him. Fishermen around the world have heard about him and wish they were him. All because of a big … Continue reading →

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The Drake Magazine Features TU’s Tom Reed As “The Protector”

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Erin Mooney

In the several years leading up to the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, TU’s Tom Reed has put thousands of miles on his truck, took a nine-day trip on horseback across the Wyoming Range with a … Continue reading →

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