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  • Pelican vs. trout: Idaho F&G's still out

    Ralph Maughan

    There was an increase in the number of the huge white pelicans in Idaho in 2007, although the number of nests is down this year. These are not common, nor widespread birds, but some anglers (mostly reservoir anglers) want them destroyed, even though they eat far more trash fish than trout. Once again, we face…

  • Good news: Maybe a fine sockeye salmon year for Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service “Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.” First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman

  • Good news! Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia

    Ralph Maughan

    Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia River. AP. Idaho Statesman. After the collapse of the spring chinook salmon run into the Sacramento River this year, there was fear it would be general; but the sockeye salmon run bound for interior Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is 6 times that of last year. There are numerous…

  • Tight lines: Energized effort to protect wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    “The complacency of Utah anglers and hunters has always confounded me. Most organized group reactions to issues concerning wildlife are emotional outbursts that come too late in the game.” Read the rest in Tight lines: Energized effort to protect wildlife. Brett Prettyman. Salt Lake Tribune columnist. – – – – Then too there are those…

  • Bush issues final court-ordered plans for Columbia River salmon

    Ralph Maughan

    Agencies issue plan to run Columbia dams, conserve salmon. By Jeff Bernard. Associated Press. It is very expensive, but does not remove the major problem — the dams on the lower Snake River. It may or may not meet the demands of U.S. District Judge James Redden who has been very hostile to past Administration…

  • Effort launched to save Yellowstone Park's cutthroat trout

    Ralph Maughan

    Effort launched to save Yellowstone Park’s cutthroat trout. Associated Press. I hope this tips the balance. The disasterous effect of the alien lake trout on Yellowstone’s cutthroat trout, coupled with whirling disease, is perhaps the most serious ecological problem in the Park, and a great loss to people who want to fish too.

  • Spring chinook return at snail's pace to Columbia River

    Ralph Maughan

    After the unexplained virtual disappearce of the salmon run in the Sacremento River after the best run in many years, the slow return of chinoock salmon into the Columbia has folks on edge. Rocky Barker writes about it today. Idaho Statesman. Update added April 11. Sharp Curb on Salmon Season. By FELICITY BARRINGER. New York…

  • Clarks Fork, Blackfoot rivers made free-flowing again.

    Ralph Maughan

    I haven’t posted on this before, although debating and planning for this has gone on for years. Yesterday, however, it came to fruition. The old Milltown Dam near Missoula was breached and two very important rivers were made free-flowing again. There was some positive rhetoric from the politicians. “Sen. Max Baucus, Sen. Jon Tester and…

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