Category : Conservation
Help Protect Hawaiian Bonefish We need your help to protect Hawaiian O’io from gill-netting, please take a minute to check out the following link. Also, please pass this on to anyone you know who might have interest! Even better, if you have a chance to make a Twitter or Facebook post it would really help [...]
Billboard Highlights Threat to Upper Colorado River A coalition of river advocates has unveiled a billboard on I-70 that highlights the threat to the upper Colorado River from massive water diversions to the Front Range—diversions that are sucking the life out of the upper Colorado and degrading irreplaceable mountain areas where many Coloradans love to [...]
Mainstream Canada (fish farms) suing prominent aquaculture opponent A note from our good friend Jeff Vermillion at Sweetwater Travel; For 4 Days we’ll match any funds donated to $10,000! SO Please Donate Now Fish farm company, Mainstream Canada is suing prominent aquaculture opponent for defamation. Mainstream Canada alleges that Don has damaged its brand [...]
Simms New Blog, “The Wading Room”
We were thrilled to see that Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard chose to feature dam removal in their 2012 Mountain catalog. In the essay titled “Dammed If We Don’t” , Chouinard reflects on his love of wild rivers, and the need to remove the four lower Snake River dams in order to restore wild Pacific salmon [...]
$75,000 Bonefish Seventy Five Thousand dollar Bonefish caught on a fly A recent study by scientists at the University of Miami estimated the value of a single bonefish in the Florida Keys to be $3,500 each year. That’s nearly $75,000 over the lifespan of the fish! At the April 2011 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission [...]
Good morning I am writing to advise that as of last week, the Southland District Council has filed an application with the resource management department at Southland District Council for land use consent to construct and maintain the ‘Around the Mountain Cycle Trial’. Maurice is currently in Alaska and will be returning to work on [...]