Friday, May 29, 2015 at 12:04AM This film from Pacific Rivers Council highlights Oregon's outdated, harmful logging rules for private forests. As Oregon considers widening tree buffers along streams to keep water clean and healthy, Pacific Rivers Council is asking people everywhere to tell the Board of Forestry that #everystreammatters by signing their petition.
Friday, May 29, 2015 at 12:03AM 
A federal appeals court dismissed one of several ongoing court cases over the fate of Pebble Mine, handing a win to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
LINK (via:Alaska Dispatch News)
EPA, Stop the Pebble Mine in Conservation, Environment, Mines Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 12:00AM 
Monte Burke reports on some celebrity chefs that have taken striped bass off their menus to help protect declining stocks.
LINK (via:Forbes)
striped bass, stripers forever in Conservation, Environment, Species Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 12:00AM Much to the chagrin of Congressional Republicans, the American Farm Bureau, property developers, fertilizer and pesticide makers, oil and gas producers and the national association of golf course owners, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just released a Clean Water Rule to protect critical streams and wetlands that are currently vulnerable to pollution and destruction.
LINK (via: The NY Times)
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#cleanwater, EPA, clean water rule, fuck yeah in Announcements, Conservation, Environment Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 12:10AM 
AFFTA President Ben Bulis speaks with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen
AFFTA President Ben Bulis traveled to Washington, DC this week to speak out on behalf of our waterways and habitat, as well as our health and vitality as an industry. The proposed new rulemaking for the Clean Water Act will protect many of our small streams, which are important spawning grounds for fish. Our industry will not survive without healthy fisheries…and access to them.
So what are we up against?
On May 14th the Republican led House of Representatives passed HR 1732, the Regulatory Protection Act of 2015 that would block the EPA's proposal to protect millions of miles of streams.
The House bill, which was introduced by Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), would force the EPA to halt the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule which would offer protection to two million miles of streams and 20 million acres of wetlands. Right now, those areas are not clearly designated under the Clean Water Act.
Care to guess how the new EPA rule would fare under some of the 2016 GOP Presidential hopefuls?
Clean water benefts more than just people and fish, it's also good for craft suds.
Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, Andrew Lemley, government affairs representative for New Belgium Brewing Company, voiced strong support for the EPA’s proposed Waters of the United States rule.
fish politics in Conservation, Environment 
