Tag: Advocacy
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Volunteers needed to remove invasive plants along the Highlands Greenway — Plateau Daily News
Highlands Plateau Greenway needs volunteers to help remove non-native invasive plants on Saturday, Feb. 18. Volunteers will meet at the back parking lot of the Highlands Rec Park at 9 a.m. In partnership with the Coalition for Non-native Invasive Plant Management (CNIPM), volunteers will be removing Privet and Oriental Bittersweet from the Rec Park. Please […]…
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Are we doing enough to protect Montana grayling?
Grayling are objectively one of the coolest fish out there, with that sail-like dorsal fin sporting blues and purples. They’re also uncommon in the Lower 48, historically only found in northern Michigan and the Missouri River headwaters in Montana. They’ve been extirpated in Michigan, though reintroduction efforts are underway. They still hang on in parts…
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The new spirit of fly fishing.
The sport of fly fishing is too old and too male and too white, and Outside magazine is coming to the rescue, highlighting three seasoned anglers as spokespeople for greater diversity and inclusion in the sport. It’s a noble cause, one I think all anglers should get behind. My hangup isn’t the anglers or the…
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This year, get involved in a good cause.
It’s the beginning of a new year, and I’ve been roped into tying a box of smallmouth bugs for a local conservation nonprofit’s silent auction. Wednesday, the local Trout Unlimited chapter wanted insight on where they could plan a tree planting, or some sort of stream habitat work, to benefit coldwater streams in the state.…
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The value of wilderness.
When we think of western wilderness, we think big. Big landscapes, big game, mountains and buttes and brawling rivers, broad meadows with elk and moose and bear. We think less often of smaller things, of native fish like Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Each subspecies of cutthroat trout is typically restricted to a few major watersheds, each…
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Waters to Watch 2022.
The National Fish Habitat Partnership is a cooperative effort between the US Fish and Wildlife Service, state conservation agencies, and external groups to address long-term declines in the quality of our aquatic habitats. Since 2006, the partnership has provided more than $20 million to assist with recovery of rivers, lakes, and estuaries. Along the way:…
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Congress still has time to pass Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.
Snow crab made the news recently, their populations crashing seemingly overnight. We wouldn’t know, except that they’re a sought-after commercial fishery. Thousands of species are in decline across the continent. Many are obscure- so poorly known, and poorly understood, that conservation biologists have only a species description and a list of sites where they’ve been…
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The Clean Water Act turns fifty.
One of my first professional gigs was digitizing the state’s paper fish kill records over holiday break. They stretched back into the 30’s and took me on a ride chronicling all sorts of environmental horrors- fish kills from slaughterhouse releases, from machine shop releases, from every manner of mystery chemical dumped in barrels leaking into…
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First of October.
FEARGODOBEY The new sign on the highway seems to be asking an awful lot. You wouldn’t think it’d be a good year for acorns, as dry as it’s been the past couple months- but there they are, crunching underfoot, ground down into flour on the asphalt. Fat fox squirrels look on, barking from the trees,…
The outside bend. 