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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Philosophy of the sporting life: A meditation on why. 
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Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU's Sportsmen's Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.   There was a summer I spent as a wild child in the mountains of Iowa. There are no mountains... [ READ MORE... ]
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Tis the Season of the Sportsman 
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  The wind came up quite early this morning. It rus­tled through the trees out­side my win­dow, gen­tly thump­ing the blinds as it con­tin­ued through the streets. It was a sub­tle sign, but a sign nonetheless. It’s fall. We’ve been see­ing small hints here lately – small twinges of gold in the... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON September 21 - 3 COMMENTS
Right call for brookies on the Tellico 
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ORV damage in the Tellico drainage was excessive. Photo courtesy of Wild South. Earlier this week, a federal judge upheld a U.S. Forest Service decision to keep off-road vehicles out of sensitive native brook trout habitat in the Tellico River drainage in the Nantahala National Forest--excessive... [ READ MORE... ]
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discussion BY sinjin4131 ON November 16 - 0 COMMENTS
Defend the Colorado Campaign 
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Wanted to let everyone know about an initiative we have going on here in Colorado.   We have developed a broad campaign to protect the Upper Colorado River from future transbasin diversions.   Check it out, Like us on Facebook, and take the pledge, at http://www.defendthecolorado.org Thank you!
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event BY rpeckens ON September 22 - 0 COMMENTS
PHYTU Fall Volunteer Water Quality monitoring project October 1
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Manistee River Water Quality Monitoring The Fall Volunteer Water Quality monitoring project on the Upper Manistee River will be held on October 1st, 2011.  We will meet at the Kalkaska Eagles’ patio (M-72 just west of the river) at 9 am and then return to Eagles for a light grilled lunch. The use... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 2 COMMENTS
Colo. River cutthroat trout reintroduced in river system 
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As a result of the Dixie National Forest decision to approve the East Fork Boulder Creek Native Trout Restoration project, the range of the native Colorado River cutthroat trout in the Escalante River system will be expanded. The decision authorizes the issuance of a pesticide-use permit to the... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Floods Affect Himachal's Trout Breeding 
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KULLU (HIMACHAL PRADESH): Trout breeding in Himachal Pradesh will take a Rs 1.5 crore hit, estimates say, as a large number of private farms, known for rearing high-quality fish, have been damaged by floods. Trouts are various freshwater fish of Salmonidae family. Of the 15 species found globally... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Groups celebrate stream restoration 
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Government and nonprofit groups gathered on Prince of Wales Island recently to celebrate a pair of restoration projects. The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service worked together on the Harris River and Fubar Creek. Both were damaged by logging in past decades. Randy... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Kenai Peninsula divided over halibut plan 
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KENAI, Alaska - Kenai Peninsula commercial fishermen and sport anglers have often had disputes about who should have the right to catch salmon. These days, the focus is on another valuable fish, halibut. A dispute over a federal plan to protect the halibut population has pitted commercial fishing... [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Bodega Bay radar used for salmon but detected tsunami 
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A high-frequency radar station at Bodega Bay is part of a California coastal network that was able to detect the tsunami in March as it approached from Japan, the first such use of radar technology. Scientists said the radar network is not yet part of the West Coast tsunami warning system, but... [ READ MORE... ]
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Submitted by fish4budzFri, 2011-09-02 23:18