Good Neighbors – Little Arthur Creek from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. TU – We have helped install off-stream water storage ponds on Russian River tributaries, re-plumbed farms in the San Gregorio Creek drainage to improve water supply management, developed conjunctive use projects along Pescadero Creek, and placed storage tanks for residential use on Little Arthur […]
Conservation
The Missourian.com recently posted an article – Quarter Century of Restoration Paying Off in Blackfoot – detailing some of the hard-fought conservation and restoration gains made on the upper Blackfoot. From the article – OVANDO – The little creek looks barely big enough to float a fish, let alone a spawning zone crucial to the […]
Watching discussions of salmon management along the continental West Coast is at times akin to replaying a slow motion car wreck over and over again – it’s ugly, you know how it’s going to end, but you can’t help but peek in one more time. Two stories have popped up recently that fit this mold […]
O.A.R.S. founder and Grand Canyon guru George Wendt wrote a great piece in Canoe and Kayak a few days ago calling for establishment of The Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument to protect and preserve the 1.7 million acres of land surrounding Grand Canyon NP. From the piece – …The Colorado River through the Grand […]
Been meaning to post a simple tribute in memory of Arthur “Art” Neumann, a Michigan businessman who died Monday the 21st at the worthy age of 99 in Saginaw. After naval service in World War II, Neumann opened Rod Renew Shop, later called Wanigas Rod Co., which became known regionally as a producer of fine […]
Drain Clean Dry Theater Spot with Narration from Orijin Media on Vimeo.
Yesterday the TRCP tweeted out a link to Dr. Bob Shipp’s The Great Gulf Red Snapper Train Wreck recently published in Sport Fishing; it’s worth a read today when you need to take a step away from the grind of the Monday work day. Perhaps written with a bit of bias toward the (good) work […]
Last week the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust announced their Fix Our Water initiative, a grassroots effort to draw the attention of anglers, the fishing industry and the public at large to the slow-motion disaster that is evolving in South Florida. In a nutshell, many billions of gallons of polluted freshwater are being discharged every day […]
Wild Rivers, Wild Brews A hearty salute to the craft brewers out in Oregon, led by the gang at Arch Rock Brewing Company and their head brewer James Smith, who have formed the Wild Rivers, Wild Brews Coalition. From their webpage – Clean water and healthy rivers are essential for great tasting beer. Clean water […]
TU is one of several groups working to protect the Thompson Divide in Colorado; at the heart of the matter is oil and gas leasing in this fragile area. From TU’s mailing last week – Give you and your children a great holiday gift this year, 220,000 acres of important watersheds with some of the […]
