Trout Unlimited is a national organization with more than 150,000 volunteers organized into about 400 chapters from Maine to Montana to Alaska. This dedicated grassroots army is matched by a respected staff of lawyers, policy experts and scientists, who work out of more than 30 offices nationwide. These conservation professionals ensure that TU is at the forefront of fisheries restoration work at the local, state and national levels.

Grant History:

2010 - $50,000 To protect, reconnect, restore, and sustain the quality of Oregon's upper Deschutes River and its tributaries. Place-based Conservation

2009 - $20,000 To protect instream flows in Montana's Ruby and Jefferson Rivers. Place-based Conservation

2008 - $75,000 To create the Upper Deschutes Home Rivers Initiative to protect, reconnect, restore and sustain the quality of the upper Deschutes River and its tributaries. Place-based Conservation

2004 - $100,000 A two-year grant to engage new spokespeople commending the conservation of western public lands. Communications and Capacity Building

2003 - $50,000 To engage the group's membership and the broader hunting and fishing community in efforts to protect important fish and wildlife habitat from inappropriate energy and hardrock mining development on public lands. Communications and Capacity Building

2002 - $25,000 To engage TU's membership and the broader hunting and fishing community in protecting important fish and wildlife habitat from inappropriate energy development on public lands in the lower 48 states. Endangered Ecosystems

2000 - $18,000 To critique federal studies on the feasibility of decommissioning the four lower Snake River dams as an option for salmon recovery in the Snake River system. Endangered Ecosystems