Conservation

Four years ago, a group of sixteen kids filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana, alleging the state has violated its constitution by prioritizing fossil fuel development over the health and safety of Montana residents. According to Hatch Magazine, that case made it all the way to the Montana Supreme Court, where the justices ruled in favor of the...

I've had the pleasure of documenting many cutthroat restoration efforts over the past decade, mostly in Utah, where I grew up. But this recent story from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is one of the most interesting cutthroat conservation tales I've ever heard. Rachel Gonzales wrote the story for Colorado Outdoors, and I highly recommend you read the...

In reporting on recent legislation passed by the United State Congress, Kirk Deeter, over at Fly Lab, questions whether this new bill is perhaps the biggest environmental win ever for trout anglers. Deeter makes this claim about the recently-passed Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hard Rock Mines Act, which was approved in "the House by voice vote...

According to the Wild Fish Conservancy, Washington state is "on the verge" of permanently banning and removing net pen aquaculture from Puget Sound. Net pen aquaculture is the practice of raising fish in pens in the ocean. For years, it was seen as a way to keep robust populations of endangered fish from going extinct (alongside hatcheries located on the...

Thanks to funding from president Joe Biden's America the Beautiful Challenge, a tri-state initiative in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York will benefit native brook trout throughout the upper Delaware River watershed. According to Zoe Read from WHYY, this group will get just over $3 million to help "federal and state environmental agencies, as well as...

Tom Bie, editor and publisher of The Drake, recently wrote a story on the magazine's website about a potential new national monument. It's become common for presidents to designate national monuments on their way out of office, and with Joe Biden leaving in a little over a month, Bie thinks this presents an opportunity to permanently protect a unique area...

Salmon Beyond Borders, a conservation group focusing on maintaining and sustaining wild salmon populations in Alaska and Canada, has voiced its opposition to a new gold mine. New plans have been filed to develop the New Polaris Gold Mine Project in the headwaters of the Taku River system, which flows into the Gulf of Alaska just outside of the state's...

Invasive silver carp are a problem just about everywhere they're found here in the U.S. But according to Nora Schoenberg at the Chicago Tribune, pollution in the Illinois River may be slowing the silver carp down near Chicago. Carp made it to the Illinois River, about 50 miles from Chicago, nearly ten years ago, but they haven't moved into Lake Michigan...

The Big Wood River is often overshadowed by its more famous sibling, Silver Creek, near Sun Valley, Idaho. Unlike Silver Creek, however, you can actually catch fish from the Big Wood, although it's not without its problems. Like any Western river, it has to face warming water temperatures, increased demands for irrigation, and more and more angler pressure...

Striped bass are an important fish for a variety of reasons, but us anglers love them for the great experiences they provide at the end of a fly rod. That's what makes the recent news about Chesapeake Bay striped bass populations all the more concerning. As Eliza Noe over at Phys.org wrote, "According to a 2024 survey from the Virginia Institute of Marine...