Films about the work of Trout Unlimited, the premier coldwater conservation organization. Everyday over 300,000 members, volunteers, 220 staff, and thousands of partners work to conserve, protect and restore trout and salmon habitat. Together, we make fishing better.
Excellent work and film. I especially like how you've found a win-win with the local farmers. For special few people triggered by a brief global warming mention, that topic is unavoidable when talking scientifically about Bonneville Cutthroat Trout. They are the original offspring of climate change. They evolved during the last ice age in Lake Bonneville (now the Great Salt Lake), survived a massive shift to hotter and drier weather by migrating into the previously iced over, now flowing river canyons. Their MO is to migrate and find the sweet spot. Fish tagging studies suggest that instinctual behavior continues today, as Utah has seen some massive weather swings since 2000. Above all please remember, TU is NOT trying to re-engineer the climate or guilt you into buying a cyber truck. They're building common sense mechanical fixes to century old irrigation diversions to allow BCT's to do what they've been doing for millennia: migrate, adapt, thrive despite climate shifts.
I'm in your corner on this, but wow! This means lining up against the American driving public. Good luck getting the Trumpers, climate deniers, general ID care individuals and how many other professional orginizations, industrial groups and government orgs on board with this.
When you are you guys gonna do a study on the blatant Geo engineering going on all over North America? If your taking water samples to measure pollutants in the water from "urban tire wear dust" then surely your testing should be showing high levels of toxic heavy metals and materials like aluminum, barium, strontium, micro plastics, etc...All of which have no natural explanation for being found in the rain fall and snow pack All over north America, and it just so happens to be the main ingredients used in the US governments ongoing geo engineering and weather modification operations. But let's blame it on the everyday working man's car tires and ignore all those planes criss crossing in the skies above our heads spraying us like insects and blocking out the sun.
Do your research before supporting a group like this? I used to think that these guys were good until I learned about all of the bad things that they support, including anti-hatchery regiment.
Trout unlimited Is not good people!! They want no hatchery salmon and steelhead While the oceans get overfished and stocks deplete these guys campaign against hatcheries
I am tired of hearing Global Warming since we should be concentrating on Global Cooling. The Eastern United States has actual been cooling over the past 50 years because of reforestation. The Western United States could also be cooling if the reforestation was taking place with native riparian zone trees along the Western United States' streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs. The native riparian zone trees also provide up to 80% of the food chain for the aquatic inhabitants in the streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs in all four seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Transpiration (water vapor) from the native riparian zone tree's leaves helps to cool the atmosphere in the western valleys. Plant some native riparian zone trees and preach and practice Global Cooling.
There is a big difference between changes over time and climate alarmism. The science is not there to justify huge government projects. Taking down old dams is great don't get me wrong but dont perpetuate the lie that the earth will burn in 10 years.
How is addressing the reality of your climate while discussing ecological issues political? There's no politics, it's all science, verifiable, factual, and absolutely part of ecological studies and practices. 😂
Climate change is a scientific reality that requires political solutions (if our goal is to reduce suffering). The loss of trout habitat and populations is a scientific reality that requires political solutions (if our goal is to reduce suffering). What’s *not* political here?
Removing dams benefits all living things in and around rivers. There other ways of producing energy then constructing dams. Give nature a chance to survive, and in doing so, so will we.
It is really difficult. The people who spend most of their time wading and casting don't seem to want the sand and gravel back. The tail-waters become cobble paved, and the fish have no place to make redds. We walk all-over the creek beds to do a little less casting. The folks around here will happily fish with streamers, all-year, for imported and/or hatchery-trout. You would think that it would be less expensive to install a gravel for the trout, chub and sucker to spawn in, and something granular for the benthic macroinvertebrates to call 'home.'
I believe that before all the dams we had lots of Summer Steelhead in Nor Cal, OR, WA and BC. Now at 79, taking down many dams, all around the World, makes me very happy.
A little bit of history on how the food chain in the Wisconsin Driftless Area streams has changed over the years to favor brown trout. The European settlers brought earthworms to Wisconsin to aerate the soil. The European settlers also brought watercress to plant in the springs in the Wisconsin Driftless Area. The European settlers planted reed canary grass along the streams in the Wisconsin Driftless Area streams. The reed canary grass has prevented the native riparian trees seeds, eastern cottonwood trees and black willow trees seeds from germinating along the Wisconsin Driftless Area streams. The native macroinvertebrates in Wisconsin Driftless Area streams coevolved with the leaves, seeds and small branches from the riparian zone trees, eastern cottonwood trees and black willow trees which makes up to 80% of the native macroinvertebrates diet. Another European problem from many years ago was when they released the Eurasian Starling in New York and today the Eurasian Starling is eliminating the riparian zone bird, the red-headed woodpecker. The stream restoration by TUDARE and DNR of opening the canopy by Wisconsin Driftless Area streams has allowed reed canary to be invasive to Wisconsin Driftless Area streams. Coevolution between European Brown Trout and earthworms, scuds that inhabit watercress, has been going on for thousands of years in Europe.
Disgusting ploy to enable gold silver copper platinums renditioning ecological science’ void from literature, out of the public’s eyes. There are none, it’s to enable a global monopoly on geopolitical settings that move vast amounts of gold across continents of which have massive die offs, granted the current status of their lands is only marginally better but yet is on the Atlantic and assume the right of Africas shadow, Africa being the birthplace of all life clearly, and has a gold deposit record and life abundance and experience that proves that. So all things considered only a couple countries rule the gdp gaps by 50% or more and approach scales of magnitude with the rest of Europe, basically it’s a vote and lifetime lost to 40 years ago and bizarre to say the least.😮
Just some advice about handling fish for release from my 35 yrs of experience. Don't use white buckets, fish will alter their coloration even in the short time they are transported. Please use dark green buckets so when fish are released, they blend better with their surroundings during the critical acclamation period directly after release. Also, why take a fish out of a bucket and then walk 30 feet down to the water? One key to fish survival is to minimize handling and time out of water--considerate anglers understand this.
Not typical for what a river restoration looks like. Hope it works as designed. Assume the original design / placement of the bridge over the river caused the ongoing erosion?
If you want to restore the trout, bring back beavers and allow them to do what they do best, create wetlands. There is no better way to bring back the fish, frogs, salamanders, birds, and a ton of other wildlife. Beavers are a keystone species. The rivers and streams need them.
Pretty cool! Reminds me of Bull Trout and Dolly Varden here in PNW! You can’t fish for Bull Trout, but sometimes you may accidentally hook one which I have yet to see either one in person!
Whoa the sensitive trout species that evolved for cool water in alpine environments (something that isn't super abundant in Arizona) is affected by warming waters and lowering ground water levels, that's crazy
