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Solution seekers vs. the ‘Refuse to Try’ camp
It’s time for the powers that be to work together to do something big on the Snake River Editor’s note: This article by Rob Masonis, Walt Pollack, and Bryan Jones was originally published in the Spokesman-Review. What do we – a former energy executive, an Eastern Washington wheat farmer, and a long-time salmon advocate and…
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Yellowstone: Still open for business
Here’s how you can give back to the communities and businesses that give so much to visiting anglers and outdoor lovers Feast or famine—that is the weather pattern in the West. My friend Nate Blue recently wrote and told me that his town of Bodfish, Calif., had received 0.95 inches of rain so far in…
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A step forward for America’s fish & wildlife
After the Recovering America's Wildlife Act resoundingly passed the House, it's time for sportsmen and women to urge the Senate to support this important legislation. The nation’s valuable fish and wildlife resources are a step closer to benefiting from important legislation that will fund conservation measures to help at-risk wildlife and restore fish and game…
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Planting trees for the benefit of trout, and the planet
How volunteers and staff are improving trout streams and helping reduce atmospheric CO2 Trout Unlimited chapters and staff members recently hosted 45 Plant for our Future events across 10 states. The 750 volunteers planted nearly 15,000 trees along 3 ½ linear stream miles and covering 38 acres, about the size of 30 football fields. Those…
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Time to modernize a relic of westward expansion
To clean up the West’s abandoned mines, we need funding and liability protections for Good Samaritans who want to do the work This month marks the 150-year anniversary of the 1872 Mining Law, a relic of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. Under the law, which governs hardrock mining on public lands, the federal government gave…
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It’s a go on the Colorado
Federal agency green lights a $30 million Colorado River reconnection project The Windy Gap Project on the Colorado River was built to provide water to the six rapidly growing communities of Boulder, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, and Loveland. From the reservoir that pools behind the Windy Gap Dam, a six-mile pipeline diverts nearly…
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Home water, economic engine
Mining proposal is another reason that New Mexico’s Pecos River needs protection I’m fortunate to have grown up close enough to a trout stream that I could go fishing at the drop of a hat. In the summers during high school, my best fishing buddy and I ran a little yard business in Santa Fe,…
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