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by: chris_wood
January 14, 2019
TU's government and policy staff.
By Chris Wood
Several of the bright lights in...
by: Brennan
December 5, 2018
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J. Bolton, (CA),J. Snyder, (CT)
First prize
B. Roll, (IA)
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December 4, 2018
Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butter Stick on a remote trout stream in...
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blog BY chris_wood ON January 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Connecting people to policy 
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TU's government and policy staff.
By Chris Wood
Several of the bright lights in the Trout Unlimited policy world came into the intergalactic headquarters last week. Their recent accomplishments are pretty amazing.
Dave Kinney of New Jersey helped organize efforts to pass and then fund legislation... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY Brennan ON December 5 - 0 COMMENTS
2018 Sweepstakes winners 
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Grand prize
J. Bolton, (CA),J. Snyder, (CT)
First prize
B. Roll, (IA)
Second prize
J. Schaffner, (MA),H. Witte, (CA),M. Kelso, (TN),A. Vaughan, (IL)
Third prize
J. Nyberg, (GA),C. Garland, (TN),S. Kohr, (PA)
Fourth prize
B. MCNIEL, (TN),B. Johnson, (UT),T. Miller, (CO),S. Baker, (TX),L.... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY chris_hunt ON December 4 - 0 COMMENTS
TU launches 2018 Gift Guide 
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Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butter Stick on a remote trout stream in Idaho.
Over the course of the last several months, TU staffers and volunteers have taken new fly-fishing and outdoors products into the field to test them against the fish and the elements that make our craft so special. ... [ READ MORE... ]
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A vital climate report and TU’s unsung song 
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The fourth National Climate Assessment released by the government last week details the current and future impacts of climate change on the planet, including calamaties like increased and more intense wildfires, something we've seen plenty of this year. Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons.
By Helen... [ READ MORE... ]
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Jeff Wright hired as Trout Unlimited Southeast volunteer coordinator 
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Trout Unlimited is happy to announce that we’ve hired Jeff Wright to serve as our new Southeast volunteer coordinator.
Jeff will work with TU Volunteer Operations staff and regional conservation staff to engage, inform and empower TU’s volunteers to advance coldwater conservation in Georgia, South... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY chris_hunt ON October 15 - 0 COMMENTS
Trout Tips: Dress flies so you can see them 
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Sometimes it's just as important for you, the angler, to see your fly as it is for the fish to see it. Photo by Chris Hunt.
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online or in our annual gear liquidation sale, along with seasons one and two of TU's former... [ READ MORE... ]
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Promoting biodiversity in streams and in TU's membership 
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The author with his fly-fishing instructor, Maddie.
By Jeffrey Constantz
The week before I started my internship with Trout Unlimited, I had the opportunity to learn fly fishing for the very first time. I had the honor of receiving guidance from a true master.
Her name’s Maddie. She’s my... [ READ MORE... ]
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Photo by Breckenridge Outfitters
For the first time in at least two decades, two high-country trout streams in Colorado are closed to fishing, albeit voluntarily. Stretches of the Fraser and upper Colorado Rivers are closed between 2 p.m. and midnight to give trout dealing with extremely warm water... [ READ MORE... ]
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Tackling the Anchorage casting course 
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Six years ago, I felt accomplished if I was able to cast a fly past my feet without snagging the brush behind me or creating an impressively complicated bird’s nest. With practice, time, an observing eye, and a tip or two, my cast has come a long way—though I know it still has a way to go.
Thus far... [ READ MORE... ]
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Read the 2017 TU Annual Report 
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Dear Reader,
On behalf of Trout Unlimited’s 300,000 members and supporters, 220 professional staff, and our trustees and grassroots leaders, we want to share with you the 2017 Trout Unlimited annual report. We realize that annual reports are essentially ritualized bragging, and should be generally... [ READ MORE... ]
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Thanks to the Volunteer Team Members of Maryland, Fox Valley, Wiconsin Clear Waters, and Icicle Valley for thier time and dedication. We had a great web conference on site building and we are all looking forward to seeing you new TU websites develop.
Welcome to the Arizona Council this week too. I can't wait to see these new TU sites grow.
Some suggestions for development based on working on a chapter and a council group...
1. For chapters, add an about button so that chapters can add permanent items like meeting times, places, officers, contacts, web links, etc...... Newbies would find this very helpful.
2. I've found a number of people are very, very confused by the idea of groups. The confusion, I think, stems from calling chapters and councils groups. People don't respond well to mixiing chapters and councils with affinity groups. For them, groups describe a collection of people with similar interests while a chapter (or council) is the TU organization to which one is attached. It would seem that renaming Councils and Chapters as such would help. No need to change funtionality, just terminology. So instead of searching for groups (councils, chapters) by region, they could click a Council button to find theirs or a Chaper button for their chapter.
3. When a member sets up their logon id and profile why can't they be automatically entered into their chapter and council... TU has this info and making the link would be easy.
Just my $.02 worth....
Don Haynes
Maryland Trout Unlimited
I managed to get started on the Pemigwasset Chapter site. "About" and "Home" slide show are in OK state. I also put up one "Blog" entry and an Album in "Photos". I tried twice to put up an event on the "Calendar". Both times, it appeared that I was successful, but the event never shows up on the site.
So, for the questions and some comments:
Has anyone managed to create events? Edit: I just spotted the events. They were posted in the "Group" "Pemigewasset - 726", not under the "Calendar of Events". No idea how that came to be. I had not looked at the group before. end edit
In the Photos section, the individual photos can have a Titile and an "Alt Text", but I can't see those being used when viewing the album. How are these supposed to be used? I like that (when viewing a photo) you can magnify/zoom. It was a bit disconcerting the first time I tried that - it first zooms to 100% detail and then fits to the window. With a high-res image, that can be a surprise.
Under site settings, changes to local time zone don't seem to take. Plans to change that?
I found that placing photos in text content was tricky. The style settings are not very descriptive, so it's hard to tell what the photo will look like without some trial and error. Some of the styles crop photos is odd ways too.
Thanks Dave! The Pemigewasset Chapter Site is looking great. I went in and set the time zone info. For now, that will have to be changed internally by me. The events issues have been shared with the development team and I will share the news here when it is compleated.
The photos on your site are great. The alt text on photos is helpful for searching. We are woking on adding a photo portfolio that will help admins with photo storage as part of the next phases.
The good news is that TU has planned updates as we move forward. The more users we get added, the faster the updates will added. We appreciate all the hard work our volunteer leaders contribute to help make these chapter and council sites a strong conservation community building tool.
Our Hokendauqua Chapter site is up and running. For the most part it's as functional as our old website, which we will be losing shortly. I would like to see an area where non members could input questions or comments such as a Guest Book or question and comment form. On the old website we get quite a bit of input from non members with those tools. It is a good outreach tool. Site address: hokendauqua.tu.org. A link to old site on the new one Links page with the tools I mentioned.
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