“Sportsmen continue to support responsible energy development, yet we will not sit idly by while public resources are ignored to meet the financial needs of energy companies – and certainly not at the expense of our nation’s great natural resources legacy and outdoor traditions,” said Fosburgh.
Trout Unlimited National Office
current president and Chief Executive Officer, Charles Gauvin, is an environmental attorney with extensive experience in blocking permits under the federal Clean Water Act. Before coming to TU (1991)
In 2000, Trout Unlimited became the “fiscal sponsor” of the new “Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance” (TRCA). By 2002, Trout Unlimited passed more than $2 million from the Pew Charitable Trusts to the new TRCA. The new group was not incorporated and had no IRS exempt status of its own and was ineligible for foundation contributions, so the Pew grants did not mention the new group by name.
The Alliance originally covered anti-industry activism only on National Forest lands. It later changed its name to Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and expanded its mission to cover anti-industry activism on all government lands, federal and state, and legislation that affects all private lands, such as the Endangered Species Act.
Today Trout Unlimited has a $20 million annual budget, mostly gained from foundation grants. It also got $2.2 million in government grants. TU uses taxpayer money to lobby for removal of hydroelectric dams, tightening environmental legislation like the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act, and is closely allied to groups intent on ending the use of fossil fuels.
Trout Unlimited is one of the three creators of Sportsmen for Responsible Oil and Gas Development (aka Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development), a ruse to shut down oil and gas production throughout the United States.
CHARLES GAUVIN
PRESIDENT/CEO
$201,400
HILLARY COLEY
VP ADMIN/CFO
$119,038
CHRISTOPHER WOOD
VP CONSERVATION
$133,274
WHIT FOSBURGH
VP PR. DEVELOPMENT
$130,824
STEVE MOYER
VP GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
$121,324
COURTNEY CUFF
DIR. ORV ISSUES
$105,000
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