Vintage Fishing - L.S.M.F.T Edition

B of A calls B of S on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Time to take the bankers on aerial tours of other threatened areas.

Bank of America released its revised coal policy, which will have the immediate effect of curtailing commercial lending to companies that mine coal by blowing off the top of mountains.  LINK (Via: NRDC)

December Engagement Hole Goodness

Matty O and Blake gettin er done on what could pass for a summer day in metropolitan Wyoming.

B.C. coal mine a threat to bull trout

A proposed open pit mountaintop coal mine threatens endangered bull trout and has drawn criticism from President elect Obama.

U.S. government scientists studying the Flathead River watershed
straddling the B.C.-Montana border say they've discovered the prime
spawning site for a threatened species of trout - on the Canadian side
of the system, and in the very shadow of a proposed mountaintop coal
mine that drew fire from U.S. president-elect Barack Obama during his
drive to the White House.

LINK (Via:Canada.com)

A controversial Canadian coal mine, proposed high in the headwaters
above Glacier National Park, would be built atop the most productive
bull trout spawning habitat in the entire river basin.

“That
site, immediately below the proposed mine site, is incredibly important
bull trout habitat,” said Mark Deleray, a fisheries biologist with the
Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

LINK ( Via: The Missoulian)

Flying Fish

Jose Hernandez captured this amazing shot of three eagles fighting over a fish in Homer, Alaska, from. You can see the fish at the top of the image flying by itself, but it was caught in its fall by another eagle. (Via: National Geographic)

No reprieve for Columbia sea lions

A federal judge says state governments can proceed with plans to kill
up to 85 California sea lions a year for five years in the Columbia
River at Bonneville Dam, where they gather annually to plunder the
spring chinook salmon run.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calculates that, based on observation,
the sea lions have taken from between .4 percent and 4.2 percent of the
run each year between 2002 and 2007.

LINK (Via: Seattle PI)