NYT and Gawker: Noxious Invaders and Felt Soles

August 16, 2010 By: Marshall Cutchin

“For fly fishers who pride themselves on a conservationist ethic, it hurts to discover that they may be trampling on that ethic every time they wade into a trout stream.” Felicity Barringer covers the current thinking on the role of felt soles in transporting invasive species in yesterday’s New York Times.
Gawker commenters chime in with solutions like “Velcro and single-use felt pads” and “The fly fishing industry is just going to have to adapt and change.”