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 | 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, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Dec 9, 2022 | Reconnecting Canada
Not Just Another Dam Project By Lili-Maude Craig, Fisheries Technician Beavers have been removed from much of their historical range in North America, and the consequences of their absence are apparent in arid landscapes like those found in southern Alberta. These...
by TUC Team | Mar 23, 2022 | Reconnecting Canada
Fish Home Renovations in Waiparous Creek By Elliot Lindsay-Project Biologist Trout Unlimited Canada Barriers to upstream passage for fish species are ubiquitous, from small hanging culverts to large impassable dams. Across Canada, there are hundreds of thousands of...
by TUC Team | Jan 17, 2022 | Native Species Recovery, Reconnecting Canada
Alberta’s Native Trout Country By Lesley Peterson, TUC Provincial Biologist The Eastern Slopes of Alberta encompasses the eastern slopes and foothills of the Rocky Mountains and includes some of the most beautiful country in the province. This region is important for...
by Christos | Jul 10, 2021 | Reconnecting Canada
Rough and Loose-In our, How Does Sediment End up in a Creek article, we explored some of the tools we use to identify sediment sources in a watershed, and the things we take into consideration when planning restoration works. This follow-up article explores the tools...
by Christos | Jun 21, 2021 | Reconnecting Canada
Mike McKenzie Strategic Watershed Action Team Member A new field season has begun for Ontario’s Strategic Watershed Action Team (SWAT). First, run in 2017 alongside its sister program in Alberta, the SWAT program is dedicated to increasing the abundance and quality of...
by Christos | Mar 31, 2021 | Reconnecting Canada
Bringing the Trout Back to Trout Creek: The headwaters and tributaries of Alberta’s Trout Creek meander their way through the Porcupine Hills Public Land Use Zone (PLUZ) south of Calgary, where they have historically provided habitat for at-risk Westslope Cutthroat...
by Christos | Mar 23, 2021 | Reconnecting Canada
Reconnecting Canada: Project Update – Waiparous Creek, Alberta: Trout Unlimited Canada’s ongoing “Reconnecting Canada” campaign aims to remove harmful barriers from streams across the country. Suspended culverts at road crossings and other such features not only...
by Christos | Oct 24, 2020 | Reconnecting Canada
Today is World Fish Migration Day which is a one-day global celebration to create awareness on the importance of free-flowing rivers and migratory fish. So what is a migratory fish? Migratory fishes are ones that swim short or long distances, as a way to complete...
by Christos | Apr 5, 2019 | Reconnecting Canada
Reconnecting Caton Creek-A few years ago during our annual Fish Rescue, one of our volunteers was surprised that we were rescuing all of the fish from a draining irrigation canal. In particular, he said, “this isn’t Suckers Unlimited, it’s Trout Unlimited” and asked...
by Christos | Jul 30, 2018 | Reconnecting Canada
A Decade of Exceptional Work! It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Lesley Peterson started as a temporary technician with the Alberta office of Trout Unlimited Canada. That first job entailed helping with our annual fish rescue of fish caught in...
by Christos | Jun 13, 2018 | Reconnecting Canada
Rocky Creek Restoration Completed! Rocky Creek is a tributary to the Clearwater River and is an important Bull Trout spawning, overwintering, and nursery stream. Bull Trout are listed as threatened in Alberta and populations are in decline due to overfishing, habitat...
by Christos | Dec 19, 2017 | Reconnecting Canada
Habitat Fragmentation. What is it? Why is it important? The ability for fish to move between habitats is important to the health of their population. For example, some fish will move throughout their watershed to find cooler or warmer water, a term referred to by...
by Christos | Dec 11, 2017 | Reconnecting Canada
Markdale Dam Removal-A dam on Armstrong Creek in Markdale, Ontario has been removed and replaced by a free-flowing stream. Originally, the dam had created a community swimming pond in Markdale’s Rotary Park, but is now open and allowing fish passage as nature...
by Christos | Dec 7, 2017 | Reconnecting Canada
Reconnecting Quigley Creek: Many of Alberta’s native salmonids (the family that includes trout, char, whitefish and grayling), have experienced serious declines in both their range and population. Typically this is a result of multiple historic and current threats and...
by Christos | Mar 30, 2017 | Reconnecting Canada
Reconnecting South Tony Creek. Many of Alberta’s native salmonids (the family that includes trout, char, whitefish and grayling), have experienced serious declines in their range and populations. One threat facing many of these populations is fragmentation, when...
by Christos | Sep 9, 2016 | Reconnecting Canada
Volunteers Needed for Prairie Creek Fish Passage Study: The Prairie Creek Fish Passage Improvement Project was completed in October 2015. The work focused remediating a culvert crossing on Prairie Creek, southwest of Rocky Mountain House along the Ram River Gas Plant...
by RyanL | Jul 12, 2016 | Reconnecting Canada
Reconnecting Canada – The Million Mile Effort. Reconnecting Canada – Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) has been known for decades for its efforts in fisheries protection, stream rehabilitation and partnership in management efforts across the country. TUC is...
