Conservation

Trout Unlimited has launched a new film to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Gila Wilderness. The film - Gila - highlights the issues facing the wilderness area, as well as its most successful conservation story - the Gila trout. Gila trout are rare, and only found in high-mountain streams along the New Mexico - Arizona border. The trout is...

Atlantic salmon face many challenges throughout their native range, as documented by Richard Wilson in this recent story for Hatch Magazine. Atlantic salmon in the United Kingdom are listed as endangered according to the IUCN, and as Wilson notes, "This crisis is universal, which is of note because not everywhere has nets or fish farms or pollution or...

With the Klamath River Dams coming down, there's been a big focus on the short-term environmental impacts of dam removal. Certainly there are some aspects of removing the dams that hurt the environment in the short term, but do the benefits outweigh what happens when we send tons of sediment rushing downstream? In the case of dammed rivers that drain...

Commercial fishing is, and will likely remain, a key part of managing our salmon fisheries. The demand for salmon likely won't decrease anytime soon, but the need to balance that demand with the requirements for healthy salmon stocks is imperative. That goes for both Pacific and Atlantic salmon. That's why a recent bit of research from the University of...

The American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) just released a report that the trade group hopes will launch a nationwide effort to empower anglers to demand action on climate change. The report, titled "For Tomorrow’s Fish: Anglers Are the Key to Climate-Resilient Fisheries,” was written by anglers, and contains information that AFFTA says will...

In this recent story for Fly Fisherman Magazine, Josh Bergan does an outstanding job of summarizing various projects the United States Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) is undertaking to provide passage for fish around various barriers. Reconnecting fragmented habitat is becoming a focus of many state and federal agencies worldwide, since it's arguably...

Recent efforts by the Biden administration to continue to achieve a goal of conserving 30% of America's land and water have come under fire, notably by The New York Times. In an article last week, Catrin Einhorn wrote about a new Biden administration policy that would still allow commercial fishing in waters the administration wants to deem "conserved....

The Big Hole River got some encouraging news yesterday when Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) announced partial spring sampling results. Biologists have completed spring stream sampling that shows an increase in trout numbers for both browns and rainbows along the Melrose and Hogback sections of the Big Hole River . The press release from FWP reads...

The threat to Bristol Bay is, it seems, never completely dead. Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively ruled against the Pebble Mine last year, both the Pebble Limited Partnership and the State of Alaska are suing to overturn the Clean Water Act regulations that the EPA cited in its denial of Pebble's mining permit. In an effort to...

The United States Forest Service announced recently their intentions to completely rewrite the Land Management Plan for the Tongass National Forest. The Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States, and according to SalmonState, an Alaska-based conservation group, the Tongass "produces millions of wild salmon each year, is home to some of the...