by TUC Team | Aug 30, 2024 | Native Species Recovery
The Rocky Mountain Sculpin: Alberta’s Hidden Gem Written by: Jonathan Gosling: Conservation Lead Have you ever heard of the Rocky Mountain Sculpin? This small, quirky fish might not be the most famous resident of Alberta’s waterways, but it certainly has its own...
by TUC Team | Aug 14, 2024 | Connect & Protect
Trout Unlimited Canada’s Connect and Protect program kicked off this year with an incredible collaborative event with Colour the Trails! Here in Canada, we are blessed with an abundance of nature. However, access to nature and green spaces is not equal for everyone....
by TUC Team | Jul 19, 2024 | Career Opportunities, Native Species Recovery
Join our team and gain field experience! Trout Unlimited Canada is a national, charitable conservation organization with a mission to conserve, protect and restore Canada’s freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources. Our work focuses on water quality and...
by TUC Team | Jun 30, 2024 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
From planting willows in 2019 to running a fish trap in 2020, to a bridge retrofit in 2022, TUC has been working to help rehabilitate threatened Bull Trout populations in the Tay River for years. But there’s always more work to be done! In 2023, we kept the momentum...
by TUC Team | Apr 30, 2024 | Cooling Streams, News, Reconnecting Canada
One of Trout Unlimited Canada’s strengths is our commitment to on-the-ground action and our collective willingness to get our hands dirty and our feet wet. Our staff, chapters, and volunteers have been carrying out aquatic habitat rehabilitation for over 50 years. In...
by TUC Team | Apr 9, 2024 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
Big efforts for a little fish! Written by: Angela Ten, Management Biologist What has two fan-like fins, a big head, and the world’s cutest grumpy face? The Rocky Mountain Sculpin! These funky little fish are only about 10cm long, with mottled brown and black scales...
by TUC Team | Mar 15, 2024 | Native Species Recovery
Where is the Trout at Trout Creek? Written by: Caitlyn Duncanson and Elliot Lindsay Trout Creek is nestled in the Porcupine Hills of southern Alberta, a beautiful montane ecosystem where the foothills meet the Rocky Mountains. Historically, the headwater streams...
by TUC Team | Mar 6, 2024 | Chapters, News
Landon’s Creek Written By: Scott Puillandre Middle Grand Chapter Executive The Middle Grand Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada (MGTUC) is a group of community volunteers dedicated to improving water quality and fish habitat in the middle portion of...
by TUC Team | Mar 6, 2024 | Chapters, News
No Just Flowing Waters… Written by: Peter Little Northern Lights Fly Fishers Chapter Executive Member A common misperception of Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) seems to be that its work and interest are focused just on Canada’s rivers and streams and the fish and...
by TUC Team | Feb 26, 2024 | Reconnecting Canada
Written by Lesley Peterson, Director of Conservation Like many communities in Ontario, the town of Lucknow owes part of its history to the establishment of a mill pond. The Mill Pond Dam in Lucknow, ON was first built in 1856 to support an adjacent wool mill and...
by TUC Team | Jan 10, 2024 | Reconnecting Canada
Written by: Angela Ten, Management Biologist As part of TUC’s Reconnecting Canada campaign, we have been working to replace a set of hanging culverts on two tributaries to Waiparous Creek since 2019. We refer to these creeks as the Whispering Pines East and West...
by TUC Team | Dec 20, 2023 | Native Species Recovery
Radiant Creek Rehabilitation: Improving Bull Trout habitat in the Clearwater River system A project in support of Trout Unlimited Canada’s National Conservation Mandate BACKGROUND: Radiant Creek is a tributary of the Clearwater River in west central Alberta. The...
by TUC Team | Dec 20, 2023 | News
Branch Out! Canon Workdays Update! By Lesley Peterson In August and October 2023, Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) held four workdays with Canon Canada as part of Canon’s national Branch Out program and TUC’s Corporate Environment Day program. Events were held in...
by TUC Team | Dec 20, 2023 | Cooling Streams
Rooting for the Future! Cooling Streams Update By David Fields Preparation is underway for the Spring 2024 launch of our new Cooling Streams program. Gathering in the early autumn heat wave, TUC staff and volunteers from the Speed Valley, Happy Trout, Greg Clark, and...
by TUC Team | Dec 20, 2023 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
Cabin Creek Habitat Rehabilitation By: Kaleo Gertridge Cabin Creek (WBID: 108898) is a tributary of Fallentimber Creek within the Red Deer River watershed. Background: Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) became aware of a habitat rehabilitation opportunity along Cabin Creek...
by TUC Team | Aug 28, 2023 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
Low-Tech Process-Based Riverscape Restoration Pilot Project LTPBR is an emerging technique for increasing floodplain connectivity in structurally starved streams, bringing them to a self-sustaining state. These techniques have been widely utilized in the United States...
by TUC Team | Aug 10, 2023 | Cooling Streams
Open Letter from Trout Unlimited Canada on the Auditor Generals Greenbelt Lands Removal Report Yesterday morning, concerning new details emerged related to the Ontario Government’s removal of 2,995-hectares of land from Ontario’s Greenbelt. An Auditor General’s...
by TUC Team | Jun 29, 2023 | Cooling Streams
Trout Unlimited Canada Launches Cooling Streams Pilot Project Tree Planting Program to restore riparian areas across Canada. Markdale, ON – Trout Unlimited Canada, a national leader in freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration for 50 years, announces the...
by TUC Team | May 9, 2023 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
Uncovering the Hidden Beauty of Cutoff Creek; Rebuilding Bridges & Restoring Rivers By: Lili-Maude Craig Cutoff Creek is a small stream southwest of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Its flows originate from alpine sources in the front ranges of the Rocky Mountains...
by TUC Team | Apr 28, 2023 | News
It’s More Than a Lifestyle By: Bev Brogden Ryden Brogden was a true “Alberta Boy”, an avid outdoorsman and self taught fly fisherman. Ryden’s vision for FlyCo was to capture the essence of his love for fly fishing and incorporate it into trendy everyday...
by TUC Team | Apr 5, 2023 | News
Strategic Watershed Action Team (SWAT) 2022-2023 By Sara Jose, Conservation Crew Lead & Data Specialist The Strategic Watershed Action Team (SWAT) program is a clean water project created to help improve water quality through the development and restoration of...
by TUC Team | Mar 28, 2023 | Reconnecting Canada
Cold, Clean, Complex, Culverted? By Lili-Maude Craig, Fisheries Technician Culverts can effectively convey water below a roadway; however, they are not always suitable passageways for stream inhabitants, especially when inadequately sized. Undersized culverts funnel...
by TUC Team | Mar 15, 2023 | News
Drumming Up Love in the Cold By Angela Ten Winter is the season for love. Nothing is more romantic than cuddling up with your partner to shelter from the cold. Don’t agree? Ask the burbot! Burbot (Lota lota) are the only freshwater members of the cod (Gadidae) family....
by TUC Team | Mar 8, 2023 | News
2023 Class 2 Backpack Electrofishing Course Registration is Now Open! (Limited Spots Available) Join Trout Unlimited Canada for our Class 2 Backpack Electrofishing course. This course will certify participants in backpack electrofishing, a widely used method for fish...
by TUC Team | Jan 24, 2023 | News
TUC needs your help! Have you come across interesting sportfishing regulations during your travels? Are you a fisheries manager that has implemented novel strategies to protect or recover sportfish? Then we’d love to hear from you! TUC is conducting a...
by TUC Team | Jan 20, 2023 | Native Species Recovery
If the Trout Are Gone, Is It Still Trout Creek? By Lorne Fitch, P. Biol. On a summer’s day an unknown photographer focused his Kodak Brownie on four adults and a child, out for a days fishing on Trout Creek. The photograph, now in the Glenbow Archives, is labeled...
by TUC Team | Jan 18, 2023 | Reconnecting Canada
Girardi Creek is a small mountain stream located just west of Coleman, in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. It originates from snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains and tumbles down a steep mountain valley before meeting the Crowsnest River, downstream of Crowsnest Lake. Girardi...
by TUC Team | Jan 11, 2023 | News
Radiant Creek 2022 By Angela Ten Radiant Creek is a tributary of central Alberta’s Clearwater River, which is considered critical habitat for Threatened Bull Trout. In the recent past, a flood caused a portion of Radiant Creek below the Forestry Trunk Road to deviate...
by TUC Team | Jan 5, 2023 | News
2022 Alberta Fish Rescue By Lili-Maude Craig, Fisheries Technician, and Evan Tichonuk, Fisheries Technician In spring, while mindlessly swimming down the Oldman River in southern Alberta, you followed the flow of water through the unscreened headgates of a diversion...
by TUC Team | Dec 19, 2022 | News
Bioaccumulation and biomagnification are two words that can easily be confused as they are both used to describe the increase in concentration of a pollutant within living organisms. The main difference between the two is the stage at which this build up occurs. In...
