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blog BY chris_wood ON February 12 - 0 COMMENTS
Protecting the lands we love and the waters we fish
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Urge the U.S. House to pass the Natural Resources Management Act: Act Now   By Chris Wood The U.S. Congress may surpass the Department of Motor Vehicles as the least-popular part of the government. Not today. Thanks to the bipartisan work of Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark.Taylor ON February 12 - 0 COMMENTS
Maine volunteers collect eDNA samples for Arctic char work
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When Arctic char are caught (by angling) at sample sites, data is quickly collected from the fish prior to their release. By Dave Huntress and Steve Brooke  Maine’s Kennebec Valley Trout Unlimited Chapter is in its second season of using environmental DNA sampling to detect the presence/absence of [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY j.weis ON February 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: When Alaska salmon 'go viral'
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President Barack Obama on Kanakanak Beach in Dillingham, Alaska, with two locals and a soon-to-be-viral spawning salmon. Photo credit: The White House. Story re-posted from The Arctic Sounder By Jenny Weis The sitting president of the United States visited Dillingham, Alaska in 2015 and picked fish [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark.Taylor ON February 11 - 0 COMMENTS
TU volunteers monitoring spawning redds and dam sites in Massachusetts
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Members of TU's Deerfield Watershed chapter work on their redd survey on their home river. By Erin Rodgers The past year has seen TU staff and volunteers in Massachusetts engaged in a variety of efforts in the field.  The Deerfield Watershed chapter had a big year in 2018, particularly with their [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY shauna_sherard ON February 8 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Common ground on clean water
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By Shauna Stephenson As a Montanan, a rural, progressive-leaning one at that, I don’t often consider myself to be in lockstep with many Texans.  Nothing against Texas. Truly. It just doesn’t occur to me that we may agree on many things – politics, music, Whataburger. But so goes the saying – people [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark.Taylor ON February 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Fishing injuries
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Fishing can be a serene and peaceful way to enjoy nature's beauty. Until you hurt yourself. By Mark Taylor I checked in with the folks last night and the talk soon turned to fishing.  I’ll be making the trip from Virginia to Oregon to see them in a couple of weeks. Dad said there should be plenty [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON February 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: End of the world as we know it
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Photo courtesy of Magellanes Fly Fishing.  By Scott Willoughby Take a stroll through the concourses of Denver International Airport this time of year, and the fly rod travel cases are nearly as ubiquitous as rubber rafts lining the local rivers in July. If not entirely a fishing town, Denver is a [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY sam_davidson ON February 6 - 0 COMMENTS
Testing new methods for rebuilding wild steelhead populations (Part I)
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By John McMillan In this post we review a recent before-and-after study on hatchery steelhead published by Barry Berejikian and Donald Van Doornick (find the study here). The goal of this long-term study, conducted in a handful of rivers in Hood Canal, Washington, was to determine if a well- [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark.Taylor ON February 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Ambitious TU volunteers making progress on the Battenkill
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Adding large wood to streams can help narrow over-widened channels and also provide a place for trout to hide from predators such as mergansers, which have been found to be decimating trout of certain sizes in the Battenkill. By John Braico The storied Battenkill, long recognized as a challenging [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY walt_gasson ON February 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Tightline Productions is the real deal for fly tying
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: One of the very best things about working in conservation is that you get to meet some truly outstanding human beings. Like Tim and Joan Flagler from Tightline Productions in Hunterdon County, NJ. These folks are the real deal. I knew this before I ever met [ READ MORE... ]
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