A Win for Wyoming (Yellowstone) Cutthroat
A Wyoming fish passage will make life much better for recovering Yellowstone Cutthroat; details here.
BTT’s Dr. Adams Honored with Leopold Conservation Award
From the recent BTT newsletter –
Science is our compass. It helps us understand the natural world while also guiding our efforts to conserve it. This is true whether we’re tracking tarpon movements along thousands of miles of coastline, examining the connections between bonefish populations across the entire Caribbean Basin or, most recently, tackling the causes and remedies of the devastating red tide covering our southwest Gulf coast.
Our scientific efforts over the years have been guided by Dr. Aaron Adams, an accomplished and dedicated scientist who has taken our organization to the leading edge of flats research. We were pleased last week when Fly Fishers International recognized Aaron with its Leopold Conservation Award. This was a great honor for him and proud moment for BTT.
The Leopold Conservation Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to fisheries and land ecology at the scale of whole systems. Aaron has certainly demonstrated this throughout his career, including his work to promote Everglades restoration at the scale required for ultimate success. Only with a whole system perspective will we have any chance of achieving meaningful outcomes from ongoing efforts to restore natural flows south to the Everglades and Florida Bay and reduce unnatural, toxic flows from Lake Okeechobee into our rivers and estuaries on both coasts.
A great way to congratulate Aaron and mark this special occasion is to press on with important work to restore the Everglades ecosystem and benefit our fisheries.
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Adams here on Chi Wulff a few years back, read his interview here and here.
