general outdoors

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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First Aid Kit for FM weary ears

by Wayne Mumford January 23, 2012

I was vaguely listening to the radio on my way to town this morning and something came across the airwaves that sounded like real music. I thought I was hearing something new from one of my all-time favorites, Emmylou Harris. Not coincidentally as I listened the song title was “Emmylou”. I got home and did [...]

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Montana Snow Pack Report- January 8, 2012

by Wayne Mumford January 8, 2012

The bar graphs at NRCS are down right now so I used the basin maps for this post. I think we had more snow in November in Montana than we do now. Where is La Nina and the negative northern oscillation and all that weather jazz that was supposed to bring us another pile of [...]

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A Carp Runs Through It

by Wayne Mumford January 5, 2012

I’ve never had the opportunity to run a fly by a carp. I just happened on this video and it struck me as kind of an urban version of A River Runs Through It. Irregardless, it looks like fun to me. Carp as art? Some cool still images too.

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Old dogs learning new tricks

by Wayne Mumford January 3, 2012

Last night I got off on one of those web tangents, sidetracked as it were. I was looking for some music and ended up on Youtube watching a couple “blues” videos. One was from the Crossroads concert, BB King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and someone else… anyway, I followed that on to more Buddy Guy [...]

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Rick Hafele on internet radio | Chronic Egg Pattern | Oregon Ducks finally win

by Wayne Mumford January 2, 2012

A belated Happy New Years greeting. Flying below the radar over the holiday week getting in some R&R, trying to catch a little time with the family and catching up on some chores around the house. So will throw out a few lines on things that have come this way in the last couple days. [...]

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