Trout and Salmon Foundation’s first 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 and detail on current year grant recipients. TSF Annual Impact Report 2019 Harry Hanson, Chairman of Trout and Salmon Foundation, said “Results are part of our Core Values. 100%…
September 21, 2019 Salida, Colorado – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2019 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. “Over the past 50 years TSF has granted more than $1.5 million to enable our partners to complete cold water habitat improvement projects in trout and salmon waters from coast-to-coast,” said Harry Hanson, Trout and Salmon Foundation…
Since 2015, Trout and Salmon Foundation has supported the operations of the Peter Gray Hatchery, operated by the Downeast Salmon Federation on Maine’s East Machias River, that aims to restore wild Atlantic salmon populations. The project is based on successful salmon restoration methods designed by Peter Gray on the River Tyne and incorporates innovative rearing conditions in a purpose-built…
September 22, 2018 Trout and Salmon Foundation Announces 2018 Grants to Support Habitat Improvement Projects in Cold Water Trout and Salmon Fisheries Missoula, Montana – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2018 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. “TSF’s grants serve as critical private funds that enable our partners to access significant matching funds for cold…
In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation supported a plan by Montana Trout Unlimited to acquire and install a fish screen and restore 600 feet of spawning side channel on Rattlesnake Creek (Montana), a tributary of Clark Fork River, and to benefit bull trout, west slope cutthroat trout and migratory wild trout. This project was part of a broader project…
In 2017, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded an American Rivers project to remove two diversions on Pine Creek, the main rearing habitat for Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout. Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout are an iconic wild trout that inhabit a single watershed in Northern California and are a California State Species of Concern. American Rivers highlighted the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout…
Trout and Salmon Foundation Announces 2017 Grants to Support Habitat Improvement Projects in Cold Water Trout and Salmon Fisheries Sun Valley, Idaho – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2017 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. “We are honored to support our conservation partners with the funding required to execute meaningful trout and salmon habitat improvement…
In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation supported the Big Thompson Watershed Coalition and Rocky Mountain Flycasters on the Jasper Lake project. The goal of the project was to increase the resiliency of the river ecosystem in the next flood event, enhance riparian habitat and restore aquatic habitat. The project spans a half mile of the Big Thompson on both…
Over the last decade, Atlantic Salmon Federation’s Maine Headwaters Project has removed seven dams, built fishways at ten dams, and replaced 12 large culverts with bridges in Maine’s Atlantic salmon watersheds. ASF currently has 18 projects in development including removal of the Coopers Mill dam on the Sheepscot River in Maine. In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation partnered with ASF…
In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded a Trout Unlimited project to connect more than 30 miles of brook trout habitat in the Peshtigo River watershed in Northern Wisconsin. Trout Unlimited recently highlighted the Peshtigo River project on its blog. The project called for removing or replacing road culverts, including as many as 10 in 2017, to reconnect important spawning and rearing habitat…
