Action Alert: Protect Wild Rivers and Native Fish from Strip Mining from Native Fish Society on Vimeo. Dave Lacey, Hunter Creek River Steward for the Native Fish Society gives a short update on the Wild Rivers Campaign and how you can help protect southwest Oregon’s wild rivers and native fish from strip mining.
Water Worth Saving
Both Jake and I have been chatting this past week with friends in Florida and growing more and more incredulous at the stories we’re hearing and the images we’re seeing. There are a bunch of good folks all over this in the fly fishing and conservation media, though it’s a story worth spending ten minutes […]
[On this post Super Bowl, deep-winter Monday morning here’s a thought provoking guest post from Buck Ryan of Snake River Waterkeeper (inspired at least in part by this) to start your fly fishing week off…] You wouldn’t put kids in a room with lead paint, why would you put lead in a stream they swim […]
In honor of Montana State Parks’ 75th anniversary, Montana artist Monte Dolack was commissioned to paint “Smith River in June”; the short above captured part of the magic of its creation and prints are available here. The proposed Black Butte Copper Mine threatening Sheep Creek (critical Smith headwater) was a faintly whispered threat back then… […]
The Trout That Saved Mono Lake from Guerrilla Film Guide on Vimeo. In 1941, Rush Creek, a famous brown trout fishery and major Mono Lake tributary, was diverted to supply water to the ever growing population of Los Angeles. Over the decades that followed, the lack of water had turned Rush Creek into a dry […]
The Tongass is America’s Salmon Forest An impressive coalition of folks in the industry have been working for some time now to preserve and protect the waterways of the Tongass National Forest – you can read about their work here at American Salmon Forest. They’ve identified over 70 areas within the Tongass NF that should […]
Well it’s game on for Sheep Creek and the Smith River, as Tintina Resources, majority owned by Sandfire mining, has filed for a permit to construct the Black Butte Copper Mine north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana. From the AFFTA press release just out – Today Tintina Resources, an Australian-majority-owned company, filed with the the […]
In today’s world of overnight press cycles, near instantaneous reporting of environmental disasters worldwide, politicized science debates and partisan acrimony, occasionally it takes a little more digging to find “good news” and success stories. One of those very success stories comes from Big Hole country, nestled in among some of the most scenic river basin, […]
From the Missoulian today, an open letter to Gov. Bullock – Anglers Asking for Zero Risk to Smith River We write today on behalf of representatives of Montana’s fly-fishing industry and others who share a grave concern regarding the proposed mine in the headwaters of the Smith River… …The question is not whether mining has […]
Mill Creek Restoration Project A damned nifty summary of a project completed last summer by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Department of Fisheries. More on their website here. Oregon Close to Adding Molalla and Chetco Rivers to Scenic Waterways Program From the Oregonian last week (23 Nov) – Addition of parts of the Molalla […]
Land and Water Conservation Fund Great piece from New Mexico resident Dave Cox, focusing on the role the LWCF plays for anglers, hunters and all who love public lands, in the Santa Fe New Mexican – Reader View: Let’s Save New Mexico’s Public Lands. More on the LWCF from the Seattle Times editorial Board – […]
Note to the Pebble Partnership: So Tailings Dams DO Fail While sorting out the news reports makes it unclear if two or three earthen tailings dams associated with the Brazilian iron ore operation Samarco in Minas Gerais, Brazil failed catastrophically several days ago, fail they did. Reports suggests that over 300 million tonnes or 150 […]
The Super Salmon – TRAILER from Ryan Peterson on Vimeo. Alaska’s Susitna River is one of the world’s biggest and healthiest wild salmon watersheds. A controversial government plan aims to tap its hydroelectric potential via a $6b, 735′ concrete dam. As part of studies done in advance of the project, scientists radio-tagged a king salmon […]
We Need to Keep Driving on Smith River Issues It seems every time we mention the threat(s) hovering over one of Montana’s most beloved rivers – the Smith – one of us invariably gets some form of the question “So what the hell is the big deal?”. Smith River Watch (via Montana TU) has put […]
