Water Worth Saving

Water Life: Episode 2 – Water & Wood from Freshwaters Illustrated on Vimeo.

Several of us are big fans of the Green River; Quinn and I favor the trout heaven below Flaming Gorge while Fire Girl Jess currently lives a stones throw from the upper Green (in relative Wyoming terms anyway). Brett Prettyman (Salt Lake Tribune) wrote yesterday here that the Colorado Water Conservation Board voted Tuesday to […]

A Trout in Trouble from Dennis Lane on Vimeo. Nifty vid from Colorado TU. Sign the petition to protect Colorado’s Fraser River here.

From The Reel Life (Santa Fe) fishing report feed today… If you see a professional from either the Army Corps or Bureau of Reclamation, thank them profusely for our trout. Some fancy footwork from both agencies resulted in some added water to the Chama system over the next few months in a time when there […]

Historic protection for BC’s Sacred Headwaters Announced: Major victory in campaign that puts local communities over corporate profit. Coalbed methane development to be permanently banned from headwaters of major salmon rivers VANCOUVER – The B.C. government announced today that Shell would be withdrawing its plans to develop coalbed methane in the Klappan-Groundhog tenure area in […]

Battles over water have long been part of Western lore. (We’ve been collecting vintage issues of Zane Grey’s books over the past few years – read his Heritage of the Desert for a classic old-styled battle over precious water. Nowadays instead of shooting bullets opposing forces hire attorneys and fire massive piles of paper and […]

CASTING A VOICE – 5 MINUTE TEASER from Barbless Fly Media on Vimeo.

From the Field: Linking land and water in brook trout conservation from Chesapeake Bay Program on Vimeo.

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 […]

Every now and then the good guys win one. Yesterday I got an email from Chi Wulff friend, Colorado TU President, and coffee-meister Sinjin Eberle informing me that their efforts to help protect the Upper Colorado River have not been in vain. An agreement was reached between the Municipal Subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water […]

The Restored Lower Gorge on the White Salmon River from Sheer Madness Productions on Vimeo.

My first glimpse of the Rio Grande gorge west of Taos, NM came as an impressionable high schooler escaping the plains of West Texas by running to the (relatively) nearby hills of central and northern New Mexico. Growing up in the almost desert like Texas panhandle I developed a fascination with flowing water; a friend […]

Watershed Trailer from Collective Eye Films on Vimeo.

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 […]