Category Archives: Conservation
Public Meetings May Determine Fate of Bear River Bonneville Cutthroats
The Bear River, which flows through portions of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, is one of the last bastions for the Bonneville cutthroat, making a round of scheduled public meetings paramount for the species. At stake are numerous conservation easements along … Continue reading
The Seattle Times on Idaho’s Salmon River Sockeye
If you have five minutes, it’s worth reading this story from the Seattle Times about all the efforts made to keep Idaho’s sockeye salmon from going extinct. As you’ll read, each sockeye that returns to the Salmon River and, eventually, … Continue reading
Planned Logging Could Jeopardize Alberta Bull Trout
A quick follow up on a story I provided earlier this week. Looks like there will be fights to come as Alberta struggles with consumptive industry versus saving their provincial fish, the bull trout. Here’s the story
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Bull Trout Now at Risk in Alberta
Bull trout are one of my favorite fishes, not because they are tremendous battlers, but because they live in some of the most stunning scenery in the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies. I’ve fished them from Montana to Washington, … Continue reading
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Lake Pend Oreille Kokanee Bounce Back
I’m not suggesting that everyone throw down their steelhead and trout sticks and head to northern Idaho to fish kokanee salmon, but the news from Lake Pend Oreille—that it’s kokanee salmon population is bouncing back from years of depressed numbers—is … Continue reading
Nowhere for Shale Oil To Go
At this point British Columbia doesn’t want it and Quebec doesn’t want it either, which shows that a few people in the world still have some sense and that the short term economic benefits that come with dirty oil can’t … Continue reading
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Bad Deal: Senior Level Fisheries Job Points Toward Enbridge’s Northern Gateway’s Assured Future
If the Northern Gateway pipeline goes through, it could cause major damage to some of Alberta’s and British Columbia’s greatest trout, steelhead and salmon waters, and this new finding, leaked to the Vancouver Sun, suggests backdoor dealings make the pipeline … Continue reading
Oregon Votes Down Gill-Net Ban
Oregon voters shot down a ban that would have eliminated non-tribal gill-nets on the lower Columbia River and likely increased fish passage to all the alluring Columbia tributaries, including the Deschutes, Klickitat, Methow, Okanogan, Grand Ronde, Clearwater and Salmon rivers, … Continue reading
Irrigation Release into Idaho’s Big Wood River May Devastate Fishery
When I lived in Sun Valley, for six years in the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, I used to wander down to the Big Wood River below Magic Reservoir and fish for rising rainbows and streamer-chowing browns. We caught some … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Wood Canal Co., Big Wood River, Ketchum, Magic Reservoir
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