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…
Trout Unlimited’s blog recently highlighted a number of TU projects around the United States supported by grants from Trout and Salmon Foundation. The blog post also discusses nearly 40 years of partnership between Trout Unlimited and Trout and Salmon Foundation….a short snippet from the blog post: “Since its founding in 1972, the foundation has contributed to 175 TU projects…
Shushan, NY The Trout and Salmon Foundation was pleased to check in on an exciting habitat restoration project on New York’s Battenkill River watershed. Bill Bullock, Vice Chair of the Trout and Salmon Foundation visited with Jacob Fetterman,Trout Unlimited’s Project Coordinator of the Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative, to get an update on this important habitat project on one of…
