by Tim Schulz - Wednesday, Mar 27th, 2024
Last night, I couldn’t find a campsite in the dark and rain, so I parked and slept in the day-use lot at Barretts Park Campground. When I crawl out of my truck this morning, I’m about two hundred feet from the Beaverhead River, which flows beside a four-hundred-foot-wide and sixty-foot-high rock formation Lewis and Clark called “Rattlesnake Cliff.”
by Hatch Magazine - Thursday, Mar 21st, 2024
The four lower Snake River dams that produce, on average, about 1,000 megawatts of electric power every year are really “climate catastrophes,” according to the chief scientist for a non-profit that hopes to expose dams as significant greenhouse gas producers and not the generators of clean, green energy they’re often billed to be.
by Chris Hunt - Sunday, Mar 17th, 2024
Just weeks after receiving draft permits to mine for titanium dioxide and other minerals in Trail Ridge near the southeastern boundary of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Twin Pines Minerals LLC now has a new foil that could derail the company’s mining plans: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
by Matthew Reilly - Friday, Mar 8th, 2024
On a rainy December morning, I was sitting at my desk drinking my morning coffee when an excited text message came in from one of my best smallmouth clients and friends.
”Beginners luck, for sure!”
Somewhere in middle Tennessee, on their first attempt at throwing flies at musky, the guys boated a beautiful upper-30s musky on a fly. Later that day, they boated a second.
by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Mar 7th, 2024
The tall country along the Continental Divide of central Colorado still keeps its secrets. But aquatic biologist Alex Townsend is slowly unraveling the natural and human history that percolates from the waters of Twin Lakes into the towering “fourteeners” along the spine of the continent.
His ultimate prize? A rendezvous with a ghost fish that disappeared more than 120 years ago, a victim of “progress” as miners crawled along granite ridges in search of the motherlode and loggers razed black timber from the slopes of the Rockies.
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