Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 12:00AM By the time their 2009 field season was over, the women had nominated 64 new miles of salmon stream for inclusion in the anadromous waters catalog.
bristol bay, pebble mine, salmon in Conservation, Environment, Film and Video Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:01AM 
CAVE JUNCTION -- Three years ago, Dave Rutan opened a gold mining retreat inside the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southern Oregon, bringing in helicopters, gas-powered dredges and paying customers.
He did so without the permission county authorities say he needed.
Now he wants to commercially dredge miles of the Chetco, one of Oregon's purest rivers. He plans to helicopter in four-man crews to seek gold from the equivalent of nearly 50 truckloads of river gravel each season. Read more via Oregon Live...
little chetco river, mining in Conservation, Environment, Politics, Rivers Monday, March 1, 2010 at 12:00AM 
A trio of CalTech students released a paper today arguing that wind farms could yield much greater power density if they were modeled on formations of fish. The most widely used wind turbines have a propeller-like horizontal axis of rotation that converts more than half the energy of the wind it is exposed to, but these turbines must be kept far apart from their nearest neighbors to be effective. Read on at Fast Company
Sent to us by Chum voyeur - Charles
CalTech, Fast Company, wind farming in Environment, Science Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 8:42AM
“Bull trout, an Idaho native, are threatened with extinction. The US Fish and Wildlife Service released a revised critical habitat rule for bull trout that would protect thousands of miles of rivers and lakes in five states of the Pacific Northwest. The Sierra Club, along with our conservation partners, supports the FWS proposal because it will help protect our healthy rivers and forest habitat, clean drinking water and wild trout. The bull trout is well known as an indicator species of the larger negative effects from climate change on fish habitats and what is good for bull trout is good for other species like cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, salmon, steelhead, birds, and wildlife.
Boise is the ONLY scheduled public hearing. Activists from all over the country are looking to the people of Idaho to come out and support this historic protection of fisheries of the northwest. Please make it a priority and come!"
More info at Fly Fishers of Idaho
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 12:00AM Important clip - courtesy of ThinkSalmon.com
