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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 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 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 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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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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