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  • Restoration

    Moving fish before the machinery arrives

    Stream restoration projects require a variety of tools and tactics. Sometimes you use a trowel, and sometimes a bulldozer.  In trout and salmon streams where water quality or habitat are highly degraded, you are more likely to need the latter. But when you bring in the heavy machinery, what happens to the fish living in…

  • Voices from the river Conservation Fishing

    Faith

    Fly fishing in New Mexico.

    I was driving home the other morning from my son’s school, where a prospective head of school had fielded questions from an auditorium full of parents. One father had asked how the candidate would promote critical thinking in an environment so well known for its “indoctrination” of our nation’s youth. He seemed to accept this reality, yet expressed hope that debate would be encouraged on controversial topics. One of them, no surprise, was…