Conservation

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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Battling bugs | Fixing the San Juan

by Wayne Mumford November 7, 2011

It seems I’m the new host for every bug in the neighborhood these days. Not the bugs a fly fisherman prefers but the bugs that invade your being and wreak havoc on the parts of your body you take for granted every day; ears, nose, throat and joints. Normally I’m “healthy as a horse” but [...]

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Subsistence fishing

by Wayne Mumford September 21, 2011

It sounds sort of desperate, like if you don’t catch something you and your tribe may starve to death. True, the natives counted on the salmon runs for a good part of their diet but I’m just a white Caucasian that largely survives off the shelves at Super 1; do I need to resort to [...]

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Wolverines

by Wayne Mumford September 1, 2011

A little off topic but this film is an interesting look at the mythical little carnivore with a really big attitude. I’ve never actually seen one, I’ve run across their tracks in the fall in the Logan Pass area of Glacier National Park. I think he was hunting Ptarmigans. Tasty little birds. A creature of [...]

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