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blog BY Brett.Prettyman ON December 2 - 0 COMMENTS
Students help reconnect Beaver Creek for native fish
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Students from McKinnon Elementary School watch as a recenty tagged fish is released as part of an Adopt-A-Trout program in Wyoming. Hillary Walrath photo. By Hillary Walrath A small creek in southwest Wyoming just got a big upgrade. This past November, a push-up style diversion was improved to a [ 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 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Congress needs to move on renewable energy act
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Trout Unlimited photo. By Corey Fisher One of the unique things about wind and solar energy development is that they rely on a clean source of energy that can’t be used up in the same way as fossil fuels. However, a challenge for these developments is that they often require scaling up across a [ 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 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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blog BY walt_gasson ON August 17 - 0 COMMENTS
Cowboy Cauldrons Company – Fire, Improved
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Everyone knows and loves the connections that are formed around an open fire. That part of human nature goes way back to our beginnings, and we celebrate it every time we gather around a campfire. The celebration really takes off in the art and science of cooking over an open fire – from hot dogs [ READ MORE... ]
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