We enable and accelerate the work of local conservation organizations, landowners, and government agencies by providing grants to restore cold water fish habitat.
Colorado TU recently posted an update on the successful completion of its Canyon Creek project that was supported by Trout and Salmon Foundation in 2020. Trout and Salmon Foundation provided a grant to Colorado Trout Unlimited to improve fish passage in a box culvert under Interstate 70. The project’s goal was to restore fish passage on Canyon Creek (Colorado),…
Trout and Salmon Foundation’s Annual Impact Report provides supporters and friends of TSF with a detailed understanding of the results achieved by annual grant recipients over the prior year, detail on current year grant recipients, and an overview of TSF’s organizational progress. The Annual Impact Report is available to download here: TSF Annual Impact Report 2021 Final Harry Hanson,…
In 2020, Trout and Salmon Foundation provided a grant Trout Unlimited to replace two perched culverts on Trail Fork (Tennessee) with a new stream crossing structure that reopens nearly 17 miles of stream habitat for recently native Southern Appalachian brook trout. The project was recently highlighted in an article published in Trout magazine: Brookies in Tennessee get a new,…
September 17, 2021 Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) recently announced 2021 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. TSF awarded a record high $80,000 in grants to 17 community-based watershed organizations across North America. “Trout and Salmon Foundation is making incredible progress towards our goal of becoming the premier volunteer-run foundation supporting community-based watershed restoration projects, at scale,…
Trout and Salmon Foundation’s Annual Impact Report provides supporters and friends of TSF with a detailed understanding of the results achieved by annual grant recipients over the prior year, detail on current year grant recipients, and an overview of TSF’s organizational progress. Download the report: TSF2020 Annual Impact Report Harry Hanson, Chairman of Trout and Salmon Foundation, said “The Trout…
Conservation Resource Alliance’s Platte River project will replace five culverts with full channel-spanning structures and reconnect four miles of stream habitat on the North Branch of the Platte River (Michigan) to benefit brook trout, brown trout as well as steelhead, coho and chinook salmon. The project is underway thanks to support from Trout and Salmon Foundation and a host…
Together with Trout Unlimited and a long list of additional partners, Trout and Salmon Foundation supported the reconnection of 21 miles of prime spawning habitat for native cutthroat trout. The Jackson Hole News and Guide (Wyoming) recently published a story on the success of the project: “By fundraising and investing about $375,000, Trout Unlimited managed to install a bridge…
Trout and Salmon Foundation partnered with the Pisgah and Rocky Rivers chapters of Trout Unlimited to fund habitat improvements for wild trout and other aquatic species. The project was covered in a story in the The Daily News (North Carolina). “The Pisgah Chapter of Trout Unlimited initiated the Davidson River Habitat Enhancement Project about 18 months ago and was…
Trout and Salmon Foundation provided support to Battenkill Watershed Alliance and Trout Unlimited to complete a successful habitat restoration on the Battenkill River in Southwest Vermont to benefit wild brown trout. “A year after building 85 of these structures, the results were clear. Numbers of young trout increased by almost 500%, and the abundance of adult trout nearly doubled…
September 18, 2020 Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced the 2020 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. TSF awarded almost $70,000 in grants to 18 community-based watershed organizations across North America. “Trout and Salmon Foundation’s grants will support our partners in reconnecting more than 100 miles of trout and salmon waters, developing critical spawning and rearing habitat…
