Conservation

A last-minute amendment to a once-bipartisan wildfire bill would erase the 2001 Roadless Rule across 37 states and bar the Forest Service from ever writing a replacement. Photo: Gabe/Adobe Stock The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 11-9 along party lines Wednesday to advance a bill that would eliminate the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation...

As drought deepens across Western rivers, a new web tool aims to tell anglers and managers where the next closures are coming before the water gets there. Called TroutCast, it launched June 1 and pulls together weather data, historic trout population counts, and streamflow records to forecast drought risk, population trends, and the likelihood of...

The Conservation Angler has named Dave McCoy, owner of Seattle's Emerald Water Anglers, as the first member of a new Ambassador Program. The organization emphasizes the program isn't what the word usually means in fly fishing. Photo courtesy The Conservation Angler Most ambassador rosters exist to move product. The one TCA announced June 8 from its base in...

Trout Unlimited president Chris Wood testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources on Thursday, May 21, against rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The hearing came as the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves through the rulemaking process on H.R. 7695, with a final decision expected by the end of 2026. USDA had previously...

Rainbow trout stocking, Bull Shoals State Park, Arkansas | Steve Dally Stocked and wild trout are not a single biological comparison — the genetic risk to wild populations depends heavily on the type of stocking program involved. Put-and-take fish harvested within weeks pose far less reproductive threat than supplementation programs that release fertile...

Nine months after a single brown trout photograph triggered one of northwest Montana's most urgent fisheries investigations, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks says eDNA testing found no trace of the nonnative fish—but the agency isn't standing down. As guides and anglers return to the Flathead River drainage this spring, FWP is still asking everyone on...

Win a beautiful, limited-edition black 7' 6", 5-piece, 4-weight high-performance modern glass fly rod from Epic. This Epic Reference Series FastGlass 476 Packlight is an NFC favorite for larger streams and small rivers. When NFC was looking for a rod to present to founding member and National Chair Emily Bastian for her efforts, we chose the 476 Packlight...

Scientists from Europe, Mongolia, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States met March 2–4 at the University of Nevada, Reno's Tahoe Institute for Global Sustainability to tackle an urgent question: how to keep the world's largest trout from disappearing. The three-day workshop at UNR's Lake Tahoe campus focused on five species of giant trout in the...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 2026 Nationwide Permits took effect on March 15, bringing with them a new tool for reconnecting fragmented rivers and streams. The Corps reissued 56 existing permits and added one new one: NWP 60, the first standalone Nationwide Permit dedicated to improving passage for fish and other aquatic organisms. The permit...

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Utah Trout Unlimited announced on February 19 the selection of five new native trout projects to receive funding from the Utah Cutthroat Slam, a popular catch-and-release challenge that asks anglers to land all four of the state's native cutthroat trout subspecies—Bonneville, Colorado River, Bear Lake and...