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  • Salmon are a sign of hope in a long-dry stretch of the San Joaquin
    Los Angeles Times
    By Bettina Boxall
    March 29, 2013
    There, in about a foot of water, they spied something that had vanished from the San Joaquin River more than 60 years ago: a spawning chinook salmon.
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  • Congress meet Tongass
    drakemag.com
    By Geoff Mueller
    March 14, 2013
    Southeast AK's salmon and trout contribute an estimated $1 billion to the regional economy and support 1 in 10 jobs, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The Tongass National Forest produces on average 28-percent of Alaska's annual commercial...
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  • Colorado Roadless
    drakemag.com
    By Will Rice
    March 7, 2013
    Colorado Roadless Areas (RAs) are underdeveloped locations in national forests that do not have authorized Forest Service roads. These RAs hold some of the most remote fishing in Colorado, as well as being home to a disproportionate amount of...
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  • Roadless Road Trips - Wyoming
    drakemag.com
    By Geoff Mueller
    March 7, 2013
    The wind blows in Wyoming. So much so that over much of its southern acreage, trees live in a constant state of sideways, bowing to the prevailing forces. Tumbleweed bounces through prairie sagebrush. The earth's guts, buttes, and sawtooth...
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  • Sitkoh River: Good Fishing Begins With A Bulldozer
    Pacific Fishing
    By Paula Dobbyn
    January 25, 2013
    Edwards spoke to a group of reporters and fishermen visiting the Sitkoh River restoration project on Chichagof Island, in Southeast Alaska's 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. It was a joint effort by the Forest Service, Alaska Department of...
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  • Turning Christmas Trees Into Salmon Habitat
    Ecotrope
    By Cassandra Profita
    January 3, 2013
    Restoring depleted salmon runs is a big, complicated job. But the Trout Unlimited group has found an innovative, hands-on approach to supporting the cause: One donated Christmas tree at a time.
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  • EPA guidance to aid abandoned mine cleanups
    Summit County Citizens Voice
    By Bob Berwyn
    December 13, 2012
    New guidance from top EPA officials could speed remediation of abandoned Colorado mine sites by clarifying the terms of cleanup agreements between the federal agency and Good Samaritan groups.
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  • A victory for Upper Colorado River conservation
    The Denver Post
    By Scott Willoughby
    December 5, 2012
    Colorado River advocates are celebrating an important conservation victory after softening a portion of the blow from the one-two punch that threatens to knock out the reeling upper Colorado River through Grand County.
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  • Wenatchee Steelhead get a lot more water
    Capital Press, the West's Ag Website
    By Dan Wheat
    November 28, 2012
    One of the oldest agricultural irrigation systems in Washington is getting a $3.5 million facelift this winter.
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  • Unite to protect land
    The Santa Fe New Mexican
    By Garrett VeneKlasen
    November 19, 2012
    Thousands of sportsmen from all over the world come to hunt and fish Rio Grande del Norte every year, bringing in considerable profits and job opportunities for a multitude of local businesses.
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  • Presidential candidates should make energy and public lands in the West a priority
    denverpost.com
    By Chris Wood, Larry Schweiger and Whit Fosburgh
    October 31, 2012
    In a new national poll released last month, hunters and anglers not only believe that conservation is just as important as gun rights, they also strongly believe that the protection of America's public lands should be given priority over producing...
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  • Protecting Habitat
    Cordova Times
    September 7, 2012
    As director of TU, Bristol's focus has been primarily protecting salmon habitat in Bristol Bay from potential adverse affects of the proposed Pebble mine and development activities in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Small farms looking to Salmon Safe label to market crops
    Wenatchee World
    By K.C. Mehaffey
    August 21, 2012
    The drip irrigation saves water, leaving more in the river for fish. The large buffer of grass, shrubs and trees between his crops and the river means fewer pesticides make their way into the water.
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  • Trout Unlimited reaches out to canal company after Bear River victory
    Idaho Statesman
    By Rocky Barker
    August 6, 2012
    The Idaho Department of Water Resources denied a water permit for a proposed dam on the Oneida Narrows, a popular recreation area on the Bear River in southeastern Idaho.
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  • Deal to allocate water from Crooked River ends 40 years of fighting
    Portland Oregonian
    By Charles Pope
    August 6, 2012
    The deal essentially protects farmers by assuring they will continue to receive the water they need with enough left over to expand.
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  • Windy Gap remains a controversial topic
    Denver Post
    By Scott Willoughby
    August 6, 2012
    Two days of public hearings opening comment on the proposal to expand the Northern Water Conservancy District's transmountain diversion built around the 445-acre-foot reservoir near Granby drew a crowd to Hot Sulphur Springs last week.
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  • Transition for Tongass
    americanforests.org
    By Paula Dobbyn
    August 2, 2012
    Once the heart of dozens of logging towns, Tongass National Forest is now shifting its focus from timber to salmon, creating a ripple effect for local economies and ecosystems alike.
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  • US Fish & Wildlife Service to end effort to restore Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River
    The Republic
    By Wilson Ring
    July 12, 2012
    The federal government is ending its conservation effort to restore Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River basin because the nearly half-century old program that has stocked about 100 million small fish in tributaries throughout western New...
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  • Forest Service, conservation groups bet on river restoration
    kcaw.org
    By Rachel Waldholz
    June 22, 2012
    Over thirty years ago, the Sitkoh River watershed on Chichagof Island was logged, damaging the local salmon habitat. Now, the US Forest Service is partnering with environmental groups to restore the river — and they say the project is a perfect...
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  • Restoring the Sitkoh River
    capitalcityweekly.com
    June 22, 2012
    The Forest Service took reporters and some prominent fishermen by float plane to the site of a $318,000 salmon-river restoration project in Southeast Alaska on June 13.
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