Grant in the Spotlight: Trout Unlimited
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The Wyss Foundation is excited to spotlight a $1,000,000 grant to Trout Unlimited. Trout Unlimited works to bring together diverse interests to care for rivers and streams for wild and native fish and the communities who enjoy them.
This grant supports Trout Unlimited's efforts to mobilize anglers, hunters, and sporting businesses to better protect coldwater habitat and freshwater sources on millions of acres of public lands that trout and salmon call home. It works to protect places like the Fall River, California’s largest spring creek and home to a unique sub-species of native rainbow trout, and Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands, which supports more than 350 species of wildlife, including California bighorn sheep, mule deer, elk, chukar, sage grouse, and essential fisheries like brown trout and native interior redband trout.
“About two decades ago, thanks in no small part to the support of the Wyss Foundation, Trout Unlimited decided to create an analog to the environmental community by organizing anglers and hunters as advocates for public lands,” said Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood. “This produced signature victories like Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the Idaho and Colorado roadless rules, the Wyoming Range Legacy Act, Oregon’s Copper Salmon Wilderness, and Arizona’s Baaj Nwaavjo l’atah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.”
“The Wyss Foundation is proud to support Trout Unlimited in its effort to protect millions of acres of coldwater habitat and freshwater sources in the United States,” said Molly McUsic, Wyss Foundation president. “In doing so, Trout Unlimited is relieving the pressures of resource development and a warming climate while protecting a valuable national asset—our waters—for future generations to enjoy.”
About the Wyss Foundation — The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable foundation dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities, and strengthen connections to the land.
About Trout Unlimited — Founded in Michigan in 1959, Trout Unlimited today is a national non-profit organization with 300,000 members and supporters dedicated to conserving, protecting, and restoring America’s coldwater fisheries and watersheds.