Conservation

Earth Day Condoms | Ready-Heat Blankets | Montana snow pack- March 30, 2012

by Wayne Mumford March 30, 2012

Earth Day Condoms “Wrap with care…save the Polar bear”. The Center for Biological Diversity is celebrating Earth Day this year by giving away 100,000 free endangered species condoms. The idea of course is to help put a “cap” on the ever expanding human population on the planet. I’m surprised they didn’t go for the tactile, [...]

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“The movie” revisted | Bull Trout vs Lake Trout

by Wayne Mumford February 27, 2012

The Movie I’ll say it right now, “the movie” was just a trailer. I worked on the film as a set dresser. It was fun, a nice place to work and it was a good crew. I was impressed with Robert Redford or “Bob” as many know him. The DP (director of photography) Philippe Rousselot [...]

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Another look at channeling on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 9, 2012

False Casts and Flat Tires added more images yesterday on the story they broke a few days back on some man-made channeling work that was diverting water to the head gate of the infamous Mitchell slough. Predictably, a fairly big uproar has ensued and it has become an over night “who done it”, probably more [...]

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310 Permits, Mitchell slough headgates, muddy water

by Wayne Mumford February 3, 2012

Lucky from Button Valley Bugle astutely chimed in on the recent goings-on down the Bitteroot today. This is the goods folks, the article he references from the Missoulian is an absolute must read. Thanks so much Lucky! The Bitterroot Conservation District began issuing 310 permits to the landowners on Mitchell Slough for various work since [...]

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More on channel manipulation on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 2, 2012

I did a little poking around today to see what I could dig up on the apparent river bed alterations on the Bitteroot river at Mitchell Slough. I fired off a couple emails and made a call to the Bitteroot Conservation District to see what permits existed in the area- no one was home. Hopefully [...]

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Bitteroot River gets a man made channel change?

by Wayne Mumford February 1, 2012

I’m kinda in the tail wind on this story but it’s important that as many river folks hear about it as possible, if even one reader hasn’t heard it- then I haven’t been remiss. A few days back False Casts and Flat Tires put up a post on some pretty dramatic looking stream alterations made [...]

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Gift Baskets for Landowners

by Wayne Mumford December 26, 2011

A week or so ago, anglers from the Pennsylvania Steelhead Association, Gem City Outdoorsmen Club and Fly Tiers, 3CU, and the S.O.N.S. of Lake Erie got together and delivered Christmas baskets to landowners who allowed public access to the shorelines of their properties on Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie tributaries. They have been giving out the gift [...]

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Montana Dam Dispute- Who powers the US Supreme Court?

by Wayne Mumford December 7, 2011

“Navigable waters” is back in the courts again. Now it’s the US Supreme court being asked to overturn a Montana Supreme Court ruling that the state owns the submerged land beneath 10 dams sitting on three Montana rivers. Montana PPL is up in arms because they would owe the state a few million in back [...]

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