There’s been some great stuff floating around the fflogosphere (fly fishing blogosphere) of late that I’ve been meaning to mention. Here are a few worth pondering…
Two from Tom Sadler:
Our Public Lands (Part 2.1). Tom’s continued focus on public lands (and water) policy is a major help these days, and he highlights a couple of very active and articulate teams (Montana Bully Pulpit blog and the TRCP) who have recently outlined issues that will need thoughtful attention in the months to come.
Time to Join the Outdoor Writers of America Association. Serious about your outdoor writing? Looks like a worthwhile group with some nifty benefits for members.
Wild Steelhead Fail – How a Steelhead Trout Goes from the Hoh River to the Entree Menu. Via SeattleMet / Allecia Vermillion. We agree with Moldy’s description of the article today as ‘one of the most ignorant and misinformed articles on wild steelhead in the history of hipster foodie reporting’. The comments are where the real show is here.
More on the Utah access battle via the Salt Lake Trib.
And a quick reply to this email from Scott T –
“…don’t tell me you’re going to start the harange (sic) about access again like you did during the last Montana legislature. Rich out of state interests are coming after water access rights across the west and theres (sic) not a damned thing you can do about it…”
Sorry Scott, we are.
Access issues happen to be a passion of (most of us anyway) our team and we’re going to keep pounding away at attempts to strip access rights away from fishers and recreational water users across the West whenever we can.
We still believe there is a ‘damned thing’ you can do about it and understand that access lost is rarely ever regained.
We also hold the (probably) naive belief that rational compromise will settle most of the access disputes that are brewing out there. Truth be told, we’re land owners and some of us are involved in a business buying and selling land in the central and western parts of the country; we understand the issues from both sides.
And there are lots of folks out there who still believe access issues are worth fighting for.
