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Review: Irish Setter Pinnacle hunting boots

Irish Setter's latest offering is a brawny, comfortable, competent boot

by Johnny Carrol Sain - Monday, Sep 13th, 2021

Photo: Johnny Carrol Sain

Upland boots must tackle wide-ranging terrain from the occasional treks through water to jagged rocks, slippery mud, briars, and miles upon miles of all of it for hours at a time. What you want from a top-notch upland boot is a seemingly impossible duality — the comfort of an athletic shoe combined with a tank-like indestructibility and traction.

The deal of the century

Commodity trading on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island

by Chris Hunt - Saturday, Sep 11th, 2021

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Coffman Cove, Alaska, is a funky little place. Situated on the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, it boasts a robust marina, a little market where an angler might be able to slide in and grab a few beers and an $8 bag of chips before heading out fishing for the day … and a bar.

And, it’s home to no small amount of irony. So long as the bar is open, the gas pump works.

Biden admin will seek to reinstate permanent protections for Bristol Bay

The EPA will resume its effort to indefinitely block the Pebble Mine in Alaska

by Chad Shmukler - Thursday, Sep 9th, 2021

Sockeye salmon fin through a river in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska (photo: Pat Clayton / FishEyeGuy Photography).

In July of 2014, it seemed as though commercial fishermen, conservationists, Alaska's native peoples, recreational anglers, and more had, after years of relentless advocacy, prevailed in their fight to protect the Bristol Bay region of Alaska from large-scale, open-pit mining.

Tina

And so it ends as it always does

by Tom Davis - Wednesday, Sep 8th, 2021

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And so it ends as it always does, with me on the floor of the small, vaguely chapel-like room in the veterinary clinic, the room set aside for the final act of mercy. I cradle the head and neck of my adored English setter, Tina, as she sits close. She can no longer see or hear me. But there is my smell, and there is my touch, and there is the bond of trust, forged over the 13 years of her richly lived life, that together tell her she has nothing to fear.

When do you draw the line?

Renowned Oregon steelhead guide Jeff Hickman cancels entire season due to dismal fish returns

by Hatch Magazine - Thursday, Sep 2nd, 2021

Jeff Hickman captains a jet boat up the Deschutes River in Oregon (photo: Jeremy Koreski).

Forty miles east of Portland, Oregon, Bonneville Dam is the first big hydropower dam salmon and steelhead must cross when they return to the Columbia and Snake River. It doesn’t matter if they are heading for the Deschutes or Klickitat Rivers a few miles further upstream, or if they are going to go all the way to Idaho, they will swim through the viewing window at the Fish Passage Center and get counted. The counting has occurred since 1938, when construction at Bonneville was completed.

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