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Improving Habitat in a Great Basin Oasis
Fed from the jagged peaks of the Sierras on the eastern border of Yosemite, the East Walker River flows through two states and numerous different ecosystems before meeting its terminus in Walker Lake. Within the newly established Walker River State Recreation Area (WRSRA) in Nevada, it provides an oasis in the harsh high desert for…
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2,900 Culverts Required to get to a Proposed Mining Area
The proposed Ambler Road is a giant red flag for fish and wildlife. Alaska’s Brooks Range stretches some 700 miles east to west across the Arctic, forming the northern-most mountain range in America. This vast and wild landscape is the most untamed and remote hunting and fishing habitat remaining in North America, but a proposed…
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Choosing to keep lead out of the environs we fish
Lead can poison loons and eagles, but we can choose fly tying alternatives. “I fish mainly because I love the environs where trout are found,” wrote Robert Traver in the preface to his classic book, Trout Madness. The passage came to mind this summer as I paddled my canoe across the lake back to my…
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Tip – 3 Tips for Nymph Fishing
Now that it’s nymph fishing season in nearly every location across the country, check out these tips for more effective methods of getting your fly into the strike zone. Among the pieces to consider are your fly weight, your tippet diameter and the technique you’re using. Give some of these tips a try and let…
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The True Cast – Keep the faith: Everything happens for a reason…
Over 25 years ago, I was nearly broke. My loving, supportive wife and I had moved to Colorado from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to chase a dream of me becoming an outdoor writer. After a few years, although I’d knocked out a couple books and sold some stories here and there, that wasn’t exactly paying the bills.…
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From Internship to Career
One-time TU Science Intern, John Walrath, finds value in partnerships John Walrath was already deeply immersed in the world of fisheries when he took a summer internship with TU’s Science team. For his master’s program, John was studying the predation happening in Lake Coeur d’Alene on Westslope Cutthroat Trout by the resident smallmouth bass, and…
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The Way Forward for the Eel River
PG&E’s decommissioning plan for the Potter Valley Project on California’s Eel River would remove all in-river facilities and make it the longest free-flowing river in the state On November 17, six weeks after the last remnants of the Copco II Dam on the Klamath River were removed, the Pacific Gas and Electric company (PG&E) announced…