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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 Brett.Prettyman ON January 29 - 0 COMMENTS
Nevada's Ruby Mountains important for deer and trout
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The Ruby Mountains are an important refuge for wildlife in Nevada. The U.S Geological Survey has classified the area as having very low-to-no energy potential. Trout Unlimited photo. By Pam Harrington Special places bring people together. People with fond memories of hunting, fishing, birding, [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON August 8 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Water is life
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By Don Duff An effort to protect fragile aquatic wetland ecosystems and the wildlife that uses them has been under way in northeast Nevada for 15 years. The Southern Nevada Water Authority is proposing a 300-mile pipeline, 7-feet in diameter, to move pumped groundwater from the Snake Valley near [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON May 3 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: A 'salty' cutthroat with a challenging future
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A Lahontan cutthroat landed at Pyramid Lake in western Nevada. Aaron Smith - @mrwerbs By Phaedra Budy Among the 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout found across Western North America two are now extinct, five are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and the remainder are, or have [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON March 16 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Enhance your skills at fishing shows
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Jason Dyer working on his casting while on a fishing trip in Canada. Agustina Boitano Davidson photo By Jason Dyer I grew up on the East Coast and fished a lot of small streams and deep hidden ponds in the White Mountains during my adolescent years. I did do a fair amount of surf casting, but it [ 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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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
All-women team takes third place at Utah Single-fly event
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The first all-women team to compete in the event took third at the 2016 Utah Single Fly tournament. By Heidi Lewis As the newly appointed Women’s Initiative Council Chair of Utah what better way to get women involved than a friendly fishing competition? Not just any competition, but a fundraiser [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON September 9 - 0 COMMENTS
A professional, and personal, passion for cutthroat trout
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Paul Thompson holds a Bear River cutthroat caught at Bear Lake. Courtesy of Paul Thompson. By Paul Thompson My love of native cutthroat trout began in 1992 when I moved from the Midwest to begin a Master's Degree at the University of Wyoming .  My graduate project allowed study of the beautiful [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON August 31 - 0 COMMENTS
Abandoned mines "ticking time bombs" in headwaters
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Long abondoned mines pose serious environmental concerns in headwater basins across the country. Trout Unlimited photo. By Warren Colyer Last week American Fork Creek, a popular angling destination on Utah’s Wasatch Front, ran thick and black with toxic sediment—the legacy of a hundred years of [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON August 29 - 1 COMMENTS
Janae's Journey - Becoming a youth conservation leader
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Colorado River cutthroat like this one in Red Creek will benefit from a project a teenager from Wyoming will oversee for her local Trout Unlimited Chapter. JANAE'S JOURNEY Editors Note: This is the first in a series of blogs being written by a high school student from Green River, Wyoming, who [ READ MORE... ]
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