Category Archives: Conservation

The Tongass National Forest, a 17-million-acre temperate rainforest in Southeast Alaska, holds one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries.  A group of tour operators, commercial, and sport fishermen recently traveled to Washington D.C. with a legislative proposal called “The Tongass … more →

The Orvis Customer Matching Grants are an annual award of cash grants, accompanied by a challenge to customers to raise up to equal amounts.   Recently announced were the recipients for this year’s grants, including: Trout Unlimited, The Petfinder Foundation, … more →

Helping to make the public part of fisheries management decisions, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is holding two meetings in the coming weeks in Grand and Summit Counties. “In addition to science and biology, we rely on the public’s input for … more →

From Roman times to expansion of the British Empire in the mid-1800s, to the brown trout’s introduction to North America in the 1880s, trout have “traveled to places no trout swam before,” writes Cathy Newman, often unbalancing native species. However, … more →

Joshua Bergan reports on a new fight brewing in the battle over Ruby River access in Montana, this time involving a second bridge that connects the property of Atlanta media magnate James Cox Kennedy along a road just downstream of a … more →

Recognizing the irony, Monte Burke proposes that radiation leeching into the waters by the Fukushima Nuclear Plant (and thus into sea life), could in fact help Bluefin tuna populations, whose numbers have plummeted in recent years due to over-harvesting. “Scientists … more →