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Pebble Mine footprint – PR changes nothing
Cartoon by Michael O'Meara The past several months the Pebble Partnership, who aims to develop the highly controversial and widely opposed Pebble Mine in Bristol, Bay Alaska, has been touting their new mine plans to Alaskans in hopes of winning them over with new "smaller " and "safer" design claims. Alaskans see through the rhetoric…
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Video spotlight: When to use small flies for trout
We've all been there. We come across a nice rising trout occupying a small stretch of calm, clear water, and we know it's going to take the right cast with the right fly for this wary critter to strike. For me, it happened ages ago on the South Fork of the White River in northwest…
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Voices from the River: New tricks
Tight-lining a tandem set of nymphs through a bucket on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia with his 11-foot Euro nymph rod, Mark Taylor comes tight to a 14-inch rainbow trout. (Sam Dean photo.) By Mark Taylor Fishermen never stop learning, but we are also victims of…
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Conquering the blood knot
The blood knot was one of the hardest knots for me to master on the water, and the fact that it is virtually necessary makes it an important knot to get your head around. I have big fingers, so inticate work with monofilament lines and tippets is tricky enough. The blood knot requires a bit…
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Voices from the River: Sermons in stones
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Habitat work on Crowningshield property withstands flash flood
By Erin Rodgers Trout Unlimited’s work this field season on the Crowningshield property in Heath, Mass., was put to the test this fall when a torrential rainstorm dumped 5 inches of water on the region. Two bank-stabilizing wood jams put in place to improve trout habitat withstood the deluge and did exactly what they were…
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TU Teen Essay Contest | First Runner Up | Mason K. from Virginia
Each year, TU Camp and Academy graduates are invited to enter the TU Teen Essay Contest in which they share their camp experiences. This year we had four finalists, and Mason's essay is the third to be posted in this series as the first runner up! Mason is from Virginia and attended the Tri Stat…