I’ve been banging my head against the wall here a bit in Pinedale, feeling cooped up and restless. I’ve been keeping eye out for enterprise stories I can pursue for the paper – in the name of getting out and about – and talked my editor into letting me jaunt into Jackson for the day […]
Jess McGlothlin
I’ve driven past the Daniel Fish Hatchery on the way to Jackson many times and have had it on my list to explore since I drove down here for an interview this fall. (Hatchery fish aren’t everyone’s cup of tea – I get it. That duly noted, Wyoming’s hatchery and stocking programs have done some […]
Let’s be honest. Most anglers have at one point or another looked at a fish tank and pondered how it would look filled with fingerling browns. Possibly even rainbow stockers. No loss there, right? Who hasn’t dreamed of having an adopted trout around? Talk about a good way to test fly patterns… beats the hell […]
One thing that has struck home in the time I’ve been in Wyoming is the polarity between those in the energy development field and those in the conservation field. The two groups don’t intermingle at the bar, and sometimes it’s a pretty fine line to shop the same aisle in Alco. Simply put, the two […]
I was able to escape town council meetings and research to dash up to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort yesterday for the opening of their new intermediate-terrain Casper lift. The JH crew was fantastic; let me tromp where I needed to in order to get the shots, and a pipe lead crew member gave me a […]
I started my formal writing career with conservation pieces for fly fishing magazines, and somehow now that I’m in a newspaper job I keep coming back to the same thing. Forget the town meetings… I want to cover fisheries. Luckily I’ve landed myself in a prime spot for it. I had the chance several days […]
I’ve been in western Wyoming for a little over two weeks now. When the chance to work at a weekly newspaper as reporter / photographer came about, I jumped at the chance. Bozeman, for all its incredible awesomeness, was getting a bit yuppie and I needed some time to catch my breath. Having a long […]
The Blue Water Task Force of Big Sky, Montana hosted their second annual Upper Gallatin River Clean Up this morning. I was covering the event for a local newspaper and excited by the prospect of an assignment that put me out on the water for the morning. An volunteer group 20+ strong gathered in Big […]
I’ve spent the past two weeks covering the Millie Fire in Gallatin National Forest for various local news sources. Rather incredible coincidence had Chi Wulff Jake and I up the Storm Castle drainage within a mile or so of where the fire started on the 29th. We were driving back from West Yellowstone, saw the […]
Last week I got off work late and had half an hour or so before the sun set. It had been a long day and I needed to get out and cast. Somehow. So I headed to the recreational entity that is Bozeman Pond. A city park with a several acre lake that is more […]
[Ed.-Sounds like Jess has been running hard the past week or so; we’ll have a post from her sometime this next week.]
It’s been a wild week here in the Russian tundra. On the job training has pretty much consisted of jumping into situations and learning as I go. Slowly things are coming together and I came to the realization this morning that I’m feeling rather at home listening to the majority of conversations in Russian. Today […]
[Sent from Jess yesterday midday…] AM: It’s my third morning here in Ryabaga and we are all running like mad getting ready for the first client helicopter to arrive in two hours. Most certainly I’ve hit the ground running and am well on my way learning the names of 40-odd staff; most of whom don’t […]
