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Jan022011
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Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 12:02AM 
A River Runs Through It actor Arnold Richardson dies at 96.
HELENA, Mont. — Arnold Richardson was not the best-known Montanan to appear in a Hollywood movie, but his solitary bit part — as the elderly Norman Maclean in "A River Runs Through It" — remains one of the most iconic cinematic images of the state, partly responsible, for better or worse, for the explosion in the popularity of fly fishing in the 1990s.
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As a Montanan raised in Missoula, who also fished the Blackfoot as a boy with my father and then other rivers on my own, the movie was one of the worst things to happen to the quality of the fishing experience on the waters of our state. Not only did it spur an increase in fishing pressure on rivers, it also resulted in a land rush to develop streamside properties. The impacts of too many folks fishing can be mitigated to some degree, but the overdevelopment of the shoreline of many of our rivers has a long lasting permanent impact. It is entirely possible all this would have come to pass anyway, but the movie sped things up dramatically.