Trout Unlimited’s Statement on the ExxonMobil Oil Spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, Mont. Trout Unlimited deplores the spill of oil, equal to at least 1,000 barrels, into one of America’s most treasured rivers, the Yellowstone. On July 1, an ExxonMobil pipeline running underneath the Yellowstone River outside of Laurel, Mont., burst, spewing a […]
Damn!
Interview video featuring several speakers including Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. Here’s a couple of solid quotes from the vid – … that Montana — well, Montana’s interests aren’t perfectly aligned with ExxonMobil’s and the EPA’s. Our interests are for the wealth and the health of the Yellowstone […]
The smartest thing we read so far regarding the 1000 barrel Yellowstone River oil spill comes from Flathead country, through the thoughtful reasoning of Wayne at Will Fish For Work. Read the entire post here, though the money paragraph is the third one – I think this would be good time for Montanan’s to demand […]
From Reuters – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer questioned Exxon’s contention that the spill into the Yellowstone, the longest undammed river in the United States, was concentrated within a 10-mile area. “This is a lot of wild country, and they haven’t any idea whether it’s 5 miles, 50 miles or 100 miles, they’re guessing,” Schweitzer, a […]
Still on the road playing hooky with She Who Must Be Obeyed in the mountain West. By virtue of an ambitious plan to head back home to Montana for a few days we’ve had the pleasure of seeing more than a handful of western waterways up close and personal. I can’t remember how long it’s […]
Salt Lake City bound friend Peter A. sent this email and link along yesterday – Hey guys – Here’s a link from yesterday’s Trib (SLC Tribune) covering a visit to the Bingham Canyon Mine by an Alaskan native village association. We have a good friend who was part of the entourage touring the mine (I […]
Yesterday’s Angling Trade newsletter reported that Shane Stalcup, 48, had passed away at his home in Colorado. Shane was a tremendously innovative gentleman at the tying vise and crafted many of the patterns you’ll see at the fly shop and tease out at your own vise. We’ve admired Shane’s work greatly and had the pleasure […]
You’ve gotta like a guy who will set fire to crappy legislation with style. Photo credit: E. Wiley / Helena Independent Record
The Montana house late this week voted largely along party lines to pass SB 306 – the cyanide leach bill. This is nothing short of a jaw-dropping ‘go to hell’ to Montana voters who had twice before voted overwhelmingly to end cyanide leach mining in the state. We’re f’n speechless. Governor, time to heat up […]
Interesting article in today’s Bozeman Daily Chronicle today – Under the Gun: FWP Feeling a Legislative Crunch. Read it for yourself, though here’s what caught our eye today (emphasis mine)- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is feeling the squeeze of a Legislature unhappy with its recent record. In the first half of the session, FWP […]
Via the Montana TU – HB 309, Rep. Jeff Wellborn (R-Dillon). Radically changes Montana stream access laws so that natural channels modified in part by irrigation structures, or whose flows are augmented by water returned by irrigation, would be defined as “ditches,” and thus off limits to recreation without permission. FWP and MTU analysis indicates […]
Damn, there has not been a whole lot of good news out there lately. HB 309 and the potential Rock Creek mine fiasco will make anyone depressed. So here is a little reminder of something positive: I need a new blender.
Wayne’s got the lead on the story here, and we agree with initial assessments by those in the fly fishing community that the potential for Pebble like mine along the headwaters of one of Montana’s most special fisheries, Rock Creek, is a very real. We’d also be in full support of the Montana Stream Access […]
Montana’s cartoon character of a governor, Brian Schweitzer, has recently let his forked tongue wiggle yet again. (In the interest of full disclosure, we knew Schweitzer was a typical schizoid, lying bastard politician before he was elected to the governor’s office during our days living in the Flathead. I hate to say anything bad about […]
My friends, it is good to be writing again. This past week has been a blur of angry customers, phone calls, long lines and short tempers. Anyone who has ever worked retail during the holidays knows exactly what I’m talking about. The retail death march. Back in the fly shop things haven’t been too bad, […]
