Priority Waters – Trout Unlimited https://www.tu.org Making fishing better Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:56:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Capital Culverts: The Road Stream Crossings of Dane County, Wisc.   https://www.tu.org/magazine/conservation/barriers/capital-culverts-the-road-stream-crossings-of-dane-county/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capital-culverts-the-road-stream-crossings-of-dane-county Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:56:04 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=114126 This summer, Trout Unlimited employed two seasonal technicians to collect culvert and bridge inventory data in Dane County, Wisc.    This inventory is part of our larger effort to better understand the extent of habitat fragmentation across the Driftless Area and ensure that we have sufficient information about outdated infrastructure to have ready solutions when it…]]> Seed Savers Exchange celebration to feature a trout tour https://www.tu.org/magazine/priority-waters/seed-savers-exchange-celebration-to-feature-a-trout-tour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seed-savers-exchange-celebration-to-feature-a-trout-tour Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:54:49 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=110401 Seed Savers Exchange stewards America’s culturally diverse and endangered garden and food crop legacy for present and future generations. They educate and connect people through collecting, regenerating, and sharing heirloom seeds, plants, and stories.  Seed Savers Exchange has been saving and sharing seeds with gardeners since 1975.   To commemorate the Seed Savers Exchange network—and all…]]> TU’s North Coast Coho Project awarded four major grants https://www.tu.org/magazine/priority-waters/tus-north-coast-coho-project-awarded-four-major-grants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tus-north-coast-coho-project-awarded-four-major-grants Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:19:36 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=107812 Funding from the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act will support at least 75 local jobs]]> Trees of Time: Expanding the Legacy of Boquet River Restoration  https://www.tu.org/magazine/community/trees-of-time-expanding-the-legacy-of-boquet-river-restoration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trees-of-time-expanding-the-legacy-of-boquet-river-restoration Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:25:33 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=103915 In the early 1990s, TU volunteer Rich Redmen had the idea to use large Willow stakes to resurrect a deeply eroding stream bank on the Boquet River in Wadhams, N.Y. At the time, it was a common practice to load eroding banks with large rocks, often called rip rap. But rip rap could cost 15…]]> When checking your phone while fishing is acceptable https://www.tu.org/magazine/priority-waters/when-checking-your-phone-while-fishing-is-acceptable/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-checking-your-phone-while-fishing-is-acceptable Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:53:54 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=102876 I was caught, checking my phone yet again, in hopes of finding a response to the question that I’d posed hours earlier: an invitation to a woman I recently met to get a drink together.]]> Great Lakes community meets the moment to advance coaster restoration https://www.tu.org/magazine/priority-waters/great-lakes-community-meets-the-moment-to-advance-coaster-restoration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-lakes-community-meets-the-moment-to-advance-coaster-restoration Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:31:32 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=102424 On the Lake Superior coast, a coalition of partners facilitated by Trout Unlimited are coming together to breathe new life into the study and recovery of native coaster brook trout – a life history variation of brook trout that spend part of their lives in Lake Superior. Scientists do not consider them to be genetically…]]> NOAA announces $16.6 million for TU salmon and steelhead fish passage projects https://www.tu.org/magazine/priority-waters/noaa-announces-16-6-million-for-tu-salmon-and-steelhead-fish-passage-projects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noaa-announces-16-6-million-for-tu-salmon-and-steelhead-fish-passage-projects Thu, 23 May 2024 19:38:06 +0000 https://www.tu.org/?p=102123 TU projects in Alaska, Oregon and Washington Priority Waters recommended for a new round of federal infrastructure funding]]>