Night’s darkness is elusive during an Alaskan June. Stubborn light clings to the tundra horizon as perpetual dusk, silhouetting stunted spires of black spruce. This is the landscape of the Bristol Bay region. Conscious of it or not, it is the Alaska characterized in the dreams of almost every passionate outdoorsperson. These are fantasies of soaring glacier-laced mountains, massive brown bears, herds of caribou, remote fly-in fishing camps and profound pulses of salmon moving from sea to headwaters each season.

Utah’s High Desert: An Urgent Call
Strip mining for coal is destroying the high desert of southwestern Utah. And if you get to know the desert and its surroundings, you will come to understand what a heinous crime strip mining has become.
From a distance, the high desert of southwestern Utah, in the semiarid foothills of the Colorado Plateau, seems a pitiful place. Even the imagination cannot replace the desolation—devoid of the life, color, and diversity that are assumed to be the foundation of wilderness. But just as you cannot marvel at the darkness by drenching it with light, you cannot see the desert without wading in and touching it with your senses.

Trout Unlimited needs your help – please visit our online action center now to support the Farm Bill. As one of the nation’s most cost-effective and successful conservation programs, the Farm Bill protects great fishing by putting more water into rivers and creating quality stream habitat through improved agricultural management practices.

And it is in jeopardy. Some lawmakers are using today’s budget climate to threaten conservation programs in the Farm Bill.  You can help by contacting your members of Congress today and urging them to support the Senate Agriculture Committee proposal that includes reasonable reductions to conservation programs without undermining their effectiveness entirely.

WHY WE CARE

Simply put, the Farm Bill’s conservation programs improve agricultural land and water management and that means better fishing. With the support of Farm Bill programs, TU works tirelessly with ranchers and farmers to upgrade irrigation systems, adopt stream-friendly management practices, and enhance both habitat and agricultural operations. This means more water in rivers, better riparian habitat, and strong rural communities which are the backbone of the places we love to fish.

Grand Lake St. Marys died in 2009. A slow and painful death, it happened over many decades.

Constructed as a feeder lake to store water for the Miami-Erie Canal, Grand Lake St. Marys, at its completion in 1845, was the largest manmade lake in the world. The reservoir rests on the summit between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and is now Ohio’s largest inland lake.

 
Habitat and opportunity. Without the first, the second is impossible.

Trout Unlimited’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project works on public lands throughout the West on landscape-level campaigns to protect the best of what’s left with this notion in mind. If we are able to protect irreplaceable fish and game habitat, we are cementing in place the ability to hunt and fish on public lands for generations to come.

Check out this great video from [one percent] for the planet. Click on the link above to view the video.