Category Archives: Protection
Online Event: Clean Water Act 101
Please join us on Tuesday April 9th at 8:00 pm Eastern time for the online training, “The Clean Water Act 101.” Steve Moyer and Zach Cockrum from TU’s Government Affairs team will discuss the history of the Clean Water Act … Continue reading
TU wins prestigious National Conservation Leadership Award
Last week, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management recognized Trout Unlimited for the work our folks do in the field to restore trout and salmon habitat and, in the end, make fishing better. The National Conservation … Continue reading
TU Endorsed Gold – Shannon’s Fly and Tackle
A lifetime of spending money on outdoor gear brought me to the following principle: There are stores that sell fly fishing gear and then there are fly shops. I like being in fly shops. I like checking out the new … Continue reading
How 12 Acres Makes a Difference
By Kevin Anderson The last of 10 projects funded during TU’s first round of the Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund closed this month—a marshy 12-acre property in the headwaters of the West Branch of Owego Creek in central New York. The … Continue reading
Congress and the Tongass
A group of Alaska and Pacific Northwest residents – mostly commercial and sport fishermen, along with charter operators and guides, — are speaking out in Washington, D.C., this week on behalf of wild Alaska salmon from the Tongass National Forest. … Continue reading
Help Ensure the Future of California Salmon Fishing
Last year was a great year for Chinook salmon fishing in California – the best in more than a decade. Certainly better than 2007, when Chinook populations crashed and resulted in a two-year moratorium on salmon fishing. (Are California Salmon … Continue reading
TU member named one of Field and Stream’s Conservation Heros
TU’s Dave Sweet was recently selected as a Field and Stream Hero of Conservation and featured in the February issue of the magazine. Dave’s TU accomplishments read like a laundry list as long as a two-handed fly rod. Most recently, … Continue reading
Apply Today for Sierra Trout Camp
On a spectacular weekend last June, fifteen middle school-age girls and boys gathered at the internationally renowned UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station, in the Tahoe National Forest north of Truckee, California, for the first annual Sierra Trout Camp. The … Continue reading
Reinvesting in California’s Salmon and Steelhead
by Chandra Ferrari, TU California Water Policy Director Remember the great crash of 2007/2008? No, not the financial disaster that wiped out 401(k) accounts and housing equity in record time. I’m talking about the collapse of the California Central Valley … Continue reading
Spoiled forever…
Take a look at this newly released 5 minute video from Trout Unlimited’s Save Bristol Bay program and Alaska Fly Out Media. With breathtaking scenery and some fish-of-a-lifetime moments you’ll see why Bristol Bay is so special and why its … Continue reading
