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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON March 15 - 0 COMMENTS
Completing the Utah Cutthroat Slam
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Tom Doxey caught this Yellowstone cutthroat in northwestern Utah to complete his Utah Cutthroat Slam. Courtesy photo. By Tom Doxey My quest for the Utah Cutthroat Slam began in April 2016 when the program was introduced at the Wasatch Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo.  I was lucky enough to be the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON March 7 - 0 COMMENTS
American Fisheries Society honors Burnett as conservationist of year
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Paul Burnett, wearing the white hard hat, celebrates with Utah Division of Wildlife workers and volunteers after completing a 385-foot fish ladder through a concrete culvert to allow migratory cutthroat to return to headwaters they had been cut off from for more than 40 years. Brett Prettyman photo [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY rscholfield ON March 2 - 0 COMMENTS
Setting the bar low on clean water
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The Clean Water Act is arguably the nation’s most important environmental law. For decades, it has been wildly successful in protecting and cleaning up rivers and streams that were a public health and environmental nightmare. With the stroke of a presidential pen this week, some of those gains are [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON December 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Utah approves TU's first in-stream flow lease
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A recently acquired water lease on Utah's Weber River could help migratory native Bonneville cutthroat populations survive low water events. Trout Unlimited photo. By Paul Burnett Working within the constraints of Western Water Law to develop mechanisms for keeping water in streams is a slow and [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON November 29 - 1 COMMENTS
Ranching with cutthroat trout—an exercise in partnership
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Trout Unlimited worked with the Ramsay family to restore an important creek for both native cutthroat trout and farmlands in southwestern Wyoming. Jackson Ramsay photo. By Jackson Ramsay In August of 2000, a wildfire ripped through the rugged country of southwest Wyoming. At the time it was the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON November 21 - 0 COMMENTS
Mill Creek cutthroat restoration project complete
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Nearly 9,000 native Bonneville cutthroat trout, the state fish, were recently released in Mill Creek Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Mill Creek is now an entirely native fish system with Bonneville cutthroat, mountain suckers and longnosed dace all reintroduced after nonnative fish were removed. [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON November 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Visiting Disaster: Collaboration forging future for public lands
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Landscape like this dots land proposed as a wilderness study area. Pam Harrington photo. By Pam Harrington What’s in a name? In the case of Disaster Peak it could be wilderness – as in a proposed wilderness area straddling the Nevada/Oregon border. Trout Unlimited recently led an exploration party [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON October 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Through the mud and devastation there is opportunity
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A heavy sediment flush has turned the Shoshone River near Cody into a cholocate-covered death swim for trout and other aquatic invertebrates. Photo by Dave Sweet. By Tommy Thompson CODY, Wyoming - A recent mud flow in one of our local rivers has devastated not only a productive fishery, but also [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON October 21 - 0 COMMENTS
"Blueheads and Bonnevilles" video highlights important partnerships on Weber River
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Bonneville cutthroat trout are native to the Weber River drainage in northern Utah and are recognized as the state fish of Utah. By Paul Burnett Who cares about a sucker? Trout Unlimited does. The bluehead sucker is a very unique and imperiled species I’m lucky enough to work with on the Weber [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON October 6 - 0 COMMENTS
Record crowd attends TU's Annual Meeting in Montana
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Trout Unlimited volunteers, staffers and partners gathered in Bozeman, Mont., for the 58th annual meeting. Brett Prettyman photo. By Brett Prettyman A record crowd of more than 300 people gathered for Trout Unlimited’s 58th annual meeting in Bozeman, Mont., last week. The meeting included a fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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