Fish
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In recent email Jim Robertson wrote the following (see below). It was so interesting I decided to post it (with his kind permission). My, but he has some great photographs! Ralph Maughan
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Rocky Barker’s blog: Nampa man blows up dam in Oregon to aid salmon. Idaho Statesman. Although I don’t write prolifically about salmon and steelhead (prized NW anadromous fish), their management and fate is one of the longest and divisive wildlife controversies in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. One of the major points of contention is the…
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With the record high temperatures in the Rocky Mountain and Intermountain West, the temperatures of trout streams are soaring above, sometimes far above, that which kills trout. It is plainly evident in Yellowstone Park. Heat kills fish in Yellowstone. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Yellowstone is more vulnerable than many mountain stream areas because the…
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Barkers blog in the Idaho Statesman. June 26
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Story. Big Hole drops. By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard. A small snowpack last winter plus ranchers drawing out water to grow hay is drying up the river, the home of the river-dwelling grayling in the lower U.S. Recently the Bush Administration refused to put the Big Hole River grayling on the endangered species…
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This is a guest editorial in the Montana Standard written by Derek Goldman and Chris Marchion. It was not written by “staff.” More on Big Hole River grayling. Montana Standard.
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Whitefish conservation plan affirmed. Plan approved by F&G Commission is specific to Big Lost River subspecies. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer. The Big Lost River does not drain to the ocean or any other river. It sinks out on the Snake River Plain (actually it is almost always dried up by diversions…
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Groups are going to court to try to force the Bush Administration to list the fluvial grayling. This has become normal and expected as the Administration neither belives in the Endangered Species Act or adding any more species to the list. Do they believe in the rule of law regarding anything ❓ Story in the…