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  • Voices from the river Featured

    Birds, books and flies

    Birding has become a distraction for one shut-in Alaska angler

    Whiling away the coronavirus pandemic in Alaska I had a realization the other day while wandering my neighborhood bike path with the pooch, eyes scanning trees for the flutter of wings and ears waiting for the jubilant spring song of rambling birds.  I am unintentionally prepared for this quarantine.  After a pleasant trip south of the border, I returned to new norms of social distancing and a more or less…

  • Advocacy Community Travel TU Business Voices from the river

    Meet the Bristol Bay guides working to stop Pebble

    It’s the job of the guide to know the river. It's the job of the guide to know which fly a fish will go after. It’s the job of the guide to get that killer picture of their client holding their catch of a lifetime.   It’s also the job of the guide to know what threatens the fish, recreation opportunities and economic drivers in…

  • Advocacy Fishing

    The Gibralter is special

    The place you catch a rainbow trout as big as a silver salmon is a place you hold with reverence. A place you plan to someday return.

    Imagine a place that’s wild — save for an ATV trail, there are no roads leading to it, and no fences. Swap the idea of any buildings on the horizon for grass and fireweed. Add the awareness that there might be a brown bear around the next bend, or a fox watching from a gravel…

  • Conservation TROUT Magazine

    What 2020 holds for restoring Alaska’s Eklutna River

    Lower Eklutna Dam before removal

    With great excitement, last year we doubled down on the revitalization of Alaska’s Eklutna River.  We see this work as a unique chance to return salmon in historical numbers to a river of great cultural significance to the native village of Eklutna and potentially create a new sportfishing opportunity. The year was dominated by furthering relationships with partners, engaging in the process to help reduce…