Partner Spotlight: About Trout
We’re grateful to recognize About Trout — a fly fishing guide service working the San Juan, Upper Animas, and Conejos rivers — as a generous donor to our annual fundraiser auction.
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Partner Spotlight: Artful Angler
We’re grateful to recognize Artful Angler — a Santa Fe–based fly fishing guide service working waters across northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, from the Rio Grande to the San Juan — as a generous donor to our annual fundraiser auction.
Above the Pecos: An EcoFlight View of a Connected Watershed
This morning’s EcoFlight over the Upper Pecos offered a powerful reminder that this landscape must be understood as a connected watershed, not a series of isolated issues. From the air, the relationships among headwaters, roadless backcountry, post-fire vulnerability, water quality,…
Casting Clinic Recap: A Great Day of Learning, Practice, and Community
This past weekend, Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited hosted a successful fly casting clinic, bringing together anglers for a day of instruction, practice, and community. The clinic focused on practical casting fundamentals, including roll casts, overhead casting, timing, line control,…
Guest Essay: Brother to Another
Editor’s note: In this guest essay, New Mexico writer Daniel Gibson reflects on family, memory, and the generations of anglers who shape how we come to know the water. Like many fisherfolk, I was introduced to the calling by an…
2026 Truchas STEM Scholarship Awarded
The Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited, based in Santa Fe, has awarded its 2026 Truchas Scholarship to Robin Hickerson of Mandela International Magnet School of Santa Fe. This $2500 scholarship was established in 2024 to support future science and conservation…
Help Shape Women’s Fly Fishing Opportunities with Truchas Chapter
Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited is inviting members and friends to take a short Women’s Fly Fishing Interest Survey. We are exploring ways to better support and grow opportunities for women anglers in our chapter and broader community. This survey…
Guess Essay: The Western Native Trout Challenge
Editor’s note: In this guest essay, angler and outdoorsman Michael R. Altherr, Ph.D., reflects on the Western Native Trout Challenge and the deeper conservation story behind it—one that resonates strongly with Truchas Chapter’s commitment to native trout and healthy coldwater…
Speak Up for the Chama Basin: Oppose Proposed Uranium Exploration in Carson National Forest
A Canadian company is seeking permission to begin exploratory uranium drilling near Canjilon. Now is the time for our community to demand a full environmental review and meaningful public input.