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Turning corner at Kerber Creek
By Jason Willis The Kerber Creek watershed comprises just over 64,000 acres in the northern San Luis Valley of Colorado. The headwaters drain through the historic Bonanza Mining District, which is littered with left over draining adits and mine waste/tailing piles from decades of mining. Several flood events in the 1900s breached dams in the…
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Restoring streamside vegetation using grazing and beavers
Ranchers, Bureau of Land Management staff, and other partners tour Susie Creek in 2012.Photo courtesy Carol Evans/BLM. If you hang around a Bureau of Land Management biologist near a stream long enough, you are bound to hear the acronym PFC. Proper Functioning Condition is a long-standing rapid assessment the BLM uses to evaluate the overall condition or…
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New route proposed for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Confluence of Red Run and Dry Fork in the Cheat River drainage By Katy Dunlap Last fall, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) filed a formal application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking approval to construct and operate a 564-mile interstate natural gas pipeline across some of the best trout habitat in West Virginia and…
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Cows and conservation in Nevada’s desert
Lahontan cutthroat trout could one day be reintroduced into waters like Susie Creek in Nevada, where restoration work involves keeping cows from "parking" in the water. by Helen Neville Cattle reign supreme in the West, valued by many as an iconic part of this landscape and an important thread of western social culture. But without…
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TU ranching partner wins environmental stewardship award from cattle industry
Maggie Creek Ranch manager John Griggs receiving the Environmental Stewardship Award during the Cattle Industry Convention. Photo courtesy of the Cattle Industry Convention. A long time Trout Unlimited partner in conservation was recently honored during the Cattle Industry Convention held in San Diego. Maggie Creek Ranch, the Searle family and ranch manager Jon Griggs were…
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Mapping the ribbon of green
Above: Classic redband trout habitat in the Owyhee desert of Idaho - a ribbon of green among spectacular canyons. (Photo: Robin Bjork) By Kurt Fesenmeyer Redband trout in the high desert regions of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada are tough fish - they persist in small, cool, and shaded headwater streams in a hot, arid environment.…
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Responding to warming waters in the Gulf of Maine
By David VanBurgel Picture fly fishing in Maine: canopied streams; cold water tumbling over granite; deep lakes; brook trout as colorful as the streambed gravels of their native waters. The impacts of climate change may not be so easy to see in Maine as they are other places. Still, a recent articleby prize-winning journalist Colin Woodard…