Fraternity Brothers Wanted

Hazing of double-crested cormorants that eat juvenile salmon and steelhead on their migration to the Pacific will begin next week in the Nehalem and Tillamook estuaries. 

LINK (Via:The Statesman's Journal)

Wildlife officials began hazing sea lions Friday to move them away from Willamette Falls fishing areas.

LINK (Via:West Linn Tidings)

Don't croc the boat

For the fishermen it had been the first time "they've seen a barra trying to actually get into the net".

LINK (Via: NT News)

State Biologists Euthanize Five More California Sea Lions

California sea lions were as scarce as spring chinook salmon in the area just below the lower Columbia River's Bonneville Dam after state biologists captured seven of the big creatures and removed five of them.

LINK  (Via:The Columbia Basin Bulletin)

Why is it always the geese with the chip on their shoulder?

"What'd I do to you?"

Potentially bad news for Idaho anglers?

 Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter has proposed the elimination of general funding for the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation (IDPR) as part of the 2010 state budget. The elimination of IDPR potentially means the loss of public access to state parks and facilities all over Idaho, including the world-famous Harriman State Park in Fremont County. 

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Recycled Waders - Jason Voorhees Edition

If you've not quite caught onto the Recycled Waders movement, don't fret.  There are other uses.

Sent to us by John Koch at Trout Lily Studios.