The United States Youth Fly Fishing Team, Inc., (USYFFT), works to create educational fly fishing programs for its Team members and for the youth anglers who attend our clinics. We believe that the work done to foster an understanding of stream conservation and native trout habitat restoration helps the youth to become responsible adults working to protect the environment and the resources. Their interest in the sport is deepened by the stream activities the Team organizes such as riparian buffer zone work, native trout habitat work, and invasive plant species removal.

Our conservation work continues to grow, and we have remained active even during the covid pandemic and its restrictions. All our clinics have a programmatic conservation element as part of the instruction. We have done considerable wild trout habitat restoration throughout Pennsylvania involving young people from local schools, scouts, and those from communities not usually included in activities like these, such as the children in the local Amish community and especially children who had been expelled from school. In 2021, the Youth Team hopes to continue its work on wild trout habitat enhancement and riparian buffer zone improvements. Advanced stream conservancy and environmental stewardship reflect our highest commitment to preserving and enhancing wild trout habitat. Our programs focus on stream conservation and environmental awareness. We teach the youth valuable life skills and instill a life-long commitment to protect the valuable natural resources that are important for recreation and a community's economy. The youth become familiar with water chemistry, aquatic macro-invertebrate identification, habitat requirements. They also do much of the physical work, positioning logs, pounding re-bar, and making riparian plantings.

The Team board of directors and coaches remain committed to foster environmental conservation awareness through stream stewardship and riparian habitat programs. Examples of recent activities in this area are data gathering and stream mapping in conjunction with official agencies; learning about environmental concerns such as gill lice and other diseases affecting wild trout and invasive species (plant or animal); restoring stream habitat for various species; understanding the effects of field and stream management including drilling, development, and other threats to trout habitat.