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blog BY j.weis ON February 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Washington's salmon are more precious than gold
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Wenatchee River. Photo by Rene Rivers Please ask your Washington Senator to VOTE YES on Senate Bill 5322 This month, we have an opportunity to protect Washington's watersheds and endangered fish from a form of gold mining that’s sucking life out of our rivers. WA action.png [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_wood ON February 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Protecting Bristol Bay: This One is Personal
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Another, more effective, angler on the Kvichak. By Chris Wood Last month’s release of the draft “environmental impact statement” to permit industrial-scale mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska, made me recall the first time I set eyes on that remarkable landscape nearly 12 years ago. Trout Unlimited was [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Kate Miller ON February 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Congress votes YES on lands and water bill
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What’s News? On Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 363-to-62 to advance the Natural Resources Management Act (S.47), a bipartisan, sweeping package of land and water bills of importance to sportsmen and women. Today’s vote follows one week after the Senate [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON February 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Art for trout's sake
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Using pieces of torn, pre-dyed, handmade Japanese paper, artist and writer Joan Mead-Matsui has crafted a fishy piece of art and is hoping to benefit Trout Unlimited and Casting for Recovery by offering the print for sale to TU members. The form of art, Chigirie (pronounced CHIG-eer-ee-ay) [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY walt_gasson ON February 26 - 0 COMMENTS
TU Business Spotlight: High Hook Oregon Wines
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It started out simple in 2008, when three wine business veterans and life-long fishermen, Mark Seymour, John Heus and Stephen Cary launched the High Hook brand. They had three basic goals. First, they wanted to make really good wine that shows the true fruit character of the grapes and the subtle [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON February 22 - 0 COMMENTS
Restoring streamside vegetation using grazing and beavers
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Ranchers, Bureau of Land Management staff, and other partners tour Susie Creek in 2012. Photo courtesy Carol Evans/BLM. By Kurt Fesenmyer If you hang around a Bureau of Land Management biologist near a stream long enough, you are bound to hear the acronym PFC. Proper Functioning Condition is a long [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY shauna_sherard ON February 22 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Little lessons, little streams
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By Shauna Stephenson In a moment of exasperation, I sent her to bed early.  In truth, it was only five or 10 minutes early. But being new to telling time, that fact was lost on her and the consequence had the desired effect—six-year-old disbelief. There was the attitude and then the temper tantrum [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY robert.catalanotto ON February 22 - 0 COMMENTS
Under the radar: Funding fight nets money for fish
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By Rob Catalanotto You’ve probably heard about last week’s budget deal that kept the government open, narrowly avoiding a second disastrous shut down. You surely heard the deal included funding for Southern border security. But above the roar of vying media outlets and the din of politicians and [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark.Taylor ON February 22 - 0 COMMENTS
Great Lakes Region Newsletter, February 2019
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    Trout Unlimited’s efforts in the Great Lakes region continue to expand and 2018 was a big year for accomplishments in both the field and in advocacy efforts. TU staff and volunteers worked on dozens of major stream restoration, protection and reconnection projects in the region. TU’s [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON February 21 - 0 COMMENTS
Good fishing takes a conservation community
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By Dakota KruppFinalist in the TU Teen Essay Contest Conservation is defined as the act of protecting something in particular. Conservation of our streams and waterways has a direct impact on a sport that I love, fishing. At the Trout Unlimited 2018 summer youth camp in Waupaca, Wisconsin. I [ READ MORE... ]
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