Kudos to the Captains for Clean Water team for their Everyone In Between concept and program; be sure and check out their vid below and click through here to their website for more details.
Water Worth Saving
A hearty Monday attaboy to Orvis for their ongoing work and matching donations to the Everglades Foundation – details and donation link here.
Rogue River – A Conservation Alliance Success Story from Conservation Alliance on Vimeo.
Another nifty podcast from the good folks at BOTE covering a float down the Apalachicola River to shed light on its oyster fishery and the need for some serious protection and improvements; listen here.
One of the most significant Biscayne Bay fish kill events in recent history occurred during August in Biscayne Bay; here’s a fascinating consensus statement posted by BTT a few weeks back detailing (concisely) the how and why, and the conceptually simple remedies.
The anti-dam crowd seemed to miss this one – Montana recently removed Rattlesnake Dam, built in 1904 near Missoula; videos were posted a few days back on the Missoulian. Image above via the linked article.
Via the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, American Rivers staffer Scott Bosse penned a solid, quick read last week – In Times of Trouble, Our Rivers Will Carry Us. Image via the linked article in the BDC.
Details and sign the petition here.
Some sobering news for Montana’s Smith River dropped last week when Montana DEQ issued the final permit allowing Tintina to begin the initial phases of development of the long debated Black Butte Copper Project. Dammit. The news has been widely reported in regional papers, such as this article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle; there’s not […]
CHESAPEAKE BAY from DucksUnlimited on Vimeo.
While the call by some to take down every freakin’ dam in the world is obviously pure insanity for a host of reasons, there’s a growing base of solid evidence that the Lower Snake dams should come down. The Science of Dam Removal on the Lower Snake River from TU does a reasonably fair job […]
TU’s Lower Snake River Brown Bag webinar is back on the schedule for Thursday – inquiring minds can register here.
No Smith River Mine from PMD Productions on Vimeo.
It’s Snake River Week, with a number of TU hosted events (several via IG per the image above) and an interesting sounding webinar on the 4th – register for the webinar here. NOTE: AS OF 1600 TODAY – SNAKE RIVER WEEK HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
Power of the River Official Trailer from EMERALD WATER ANGLERS on Vimeo. Our trek across Bhutan was to meet the lovely people of this country and help them fight to keep just one free flowing river alive in their country as neighboring ones attempt to extract as much electricity from this water rich country. Traversing […]
