Fish
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Cheney to be guest of honor at American Museum of Fly Fishing- Outdoor writer not happy about honoring the fish killer, former VP. On second thought, Mr. Cheney. By Ted Williams. Writers on the Range, High Country News. – – – – – In fact, Cheney loves to fly cast. I’ve always thought a Wyoming…
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Great news! Will it pan out? Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years. In other news, F&G will issue fewer moose tags and mountain goat permits in 2009 and 2010. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman. More money and more political battling have been used to restore salmon (and steelhead) than any other…
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Looks like the Stockgrowers opposition was far from fatal- The bill passed 95-5. It must also go to the Montana Senate. River access bill gets overwhelming support in House. Proposal could be on its way to the Senate as early as today. By JENNIFER McKEE. Billings Gazette State Bureau
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Stream access bill snags on specifics. By Jennifer McKee. Helena Independent State Bureau. The proposed Stockgrower’s Association amendment would make the stream access bill largely meaningless.
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EPA says Columbia River pollution levels “unacceptable risk to people, fish and wildife- For those not familiar, the Columbia River is the major river of the Pacific Northwest. It and its tributaries drain almost all of Idaho, and Washington states, and western Montana. . . . much of Oregon and British Columbia too, plus the…
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Research shows the wisdom of keep the smaller fish and throw back the big ones- Want Sustainable Fishing? Keep Only Small Fish, And Let The Big Ones Go. Science Daily.
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This will certainly take down the great bears and orca– The irony is that B.C. did not dam its salmon streams like the United States did. Silent Fall. Posted By: Chris Genovali. B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all. Monday Magazine. . . . more Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca.…
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Pacific NW political retirement and defeats may break 20-year logjam on saving the salmon- Rocky Barker points out that the election outcome may have removed the obstacles to the conservationists’ solution of the sorry condition of salmon runs into Idaho, but breaching the navigation dams on the lower Snake River in Washington is still far…