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The Journal of Coldwater Fisheries Conservation www.tu.org SUMMER 2010 14 l Commitment, Continuity and Boots on the Ground TU’s unwavering volunteer dedication to acid rain research in Virginia. BY CHRISTOPHER CAMUTO 16 l Diamonds in the Rough TU volunteers foster a long, lost Lahontan cutthroat population in a harsh Utah landscape. BY TIM HAWKES 20 l Driving the National Roadless Debate TU’s leadership on Idaho’s Roadless Rule helps sets a new national standard. BY ROCKY BARKER 30 l Protecting a Backcountry Treasure The crucial fight to preserve fishing and hunting opportunities in Colorado’s Alpine Triangle. BY KIRK DEETER 40 l Building the Next Generation of Conservationists College students hike to remote headwaters to learn more about the Lahontan cutthroat and the ethics of conservation. 44 l Voices from the River A river springs hope in the midst of depression and unemployment. BY BILL STIEGER

5 l From the President 6 l From the Editor 7 l Our Contributors 8 l Our Readers Write 10 l Pocket Water Felt sole restrictions gain traction. Shell drops water permit efforts on the Yampa. TU asks for natural gas well bans in Pennsylvania floodplain. Major dam

Departments removal on Michigan’s Pigeon River. 13 l Question and Answer With Eric Schwaab, head of NOAA Fisheries. 49 l Actionline Grassroots Spotlight: Twin Cities TU restores Hay Creek. TU prevents potential mine waste leakage into Pennsylvania’s Kettle Creek. Embrace-A-Stream funds projects all around the nation. A new sanctuary in Massachusetts for Red Brook salters. Thousands of flies tied for a good cause in Michigan. 56 l The Art of Angling Trout profiles: Atlantic Salmon. BY DAVE WHITLOCK 64 l Native Fish Paiute Cutthroat. BY ROBERT BEHNKE MARK LANCE

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Trout Unlimited Board of Trustees

Chairman of the Board National Leadership Council Oakleigh Thorne, MILLBROOK, NEW YORK Representatives State Council Chairs

Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, ARIZONA, James Walker ARIZONA, James Stipe Chairman of the ARKANSAS, Ray Smith ARKANSAS, Ray Smith National Leadership Council CALIFORNIA, Jamie Hunter CALIFORNIA, Drew Irby John “Duke” Welter, EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN COLORADO, Thomas Jones COLORADO, Ken Neubecker CONNECTICUT, Ted Gardziel CONNECTICUT, Jim Glowienka President GEORGIA, Larry Vigil GEORGIA, Charlie Breithaupt Chris Wood, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA IDAHO, Todd Carter IDAHO, James Piotrowski ILLINOIS, Greg Prosen ILLINOIS, Ed Michael CEO Emeritus IOWA, Brett Lorenzen IOWA, Brett Lorenzen Charles Gauvin, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA KENTUCKY, Dale White KENTUCKY, Bill Remaks MAINE, Bill Oleszczuk MAINE, Dan Daly Secretary MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Mark Hattman MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Joseph Overlock Mark T. Gates, PALO ALTO , CALIFORNIA MICHIGAN, Pat Kochanny MICHIGAN, Kimberly Wetton MID-ATLANTIC, Bruce Eberle MID-ATLANTIC, Allan Dale Treasurer MINNESOTA, Bob Lange MINNESOTA, Randy Brock Harris Hyman IV, WASHINGTON, DC MISSOURI, Curt Morgret MISSOURI, John Wenzlick MONTANA, Tom Anacker MONTANA, Doug Nation Secretary of the National Leadership Council NEW HAMPSHIRE, Mary Weiss NEW HAMPSHIRE, Burr Tupper Larry Harris, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA NEW JERSEY, Rich Thomas NEW JERSEY, Rick Axt Legal Advisor NEW MEXICO, Jason Sides NEW MEXICO, Bill Schudlich NEW YORK, Dee Maciejewski NEW YORK, Ron Urban David Armstrong, Esq., GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH CAROLINA, Tim Willhelm NORTH CAROLINA, Dave Maeda OHIO, Thomas Allen OHIO, Jim Augustyn James K. Asselstine, New York, NY OKLAHOMA, Scott Hood OKLAHOMA, Jeff Hartman Sherry Brainerd, Rancho Santa Fe, CA OREGON, Karl Mueller OREGON, Tom Wolf Jon Christiansen, Milwaukee, WI PENNSYLVANIA, Jack Williams PENNSYLVANIA, David Rothrock Matt Clifford, San Francisco, CA SOUTH CAROLINA, Tom McInnis SOUTH CAROLINA, Meta Armstrong TENNESSEE, Steve Brown TENNESSEE, George Lane Charles Conn, Ketchum, ID TEXAS, Jeff Schmitt TEXAS, Bill Higdon Paul Doscher, Concord, NH UTAH, Brock Richardson UTAH, Robert Dibblee Bill Egan, Jackson, WY VERMONT, Chris Moore VERMONT, Chris Moore Lawrence Finch, Wilson, WY VIRGINIA, Tom Sadler VIRGINIA, Bill Pierce David Goeddel, Ph.D., Hillsborough, CA WASHINGTON, Bill Abrahamse WASHINGTON, Tom Van Gelder WEST VIRGINIA, Dave Fulton WEST VIRGINIA, Chris Shockey Wallace Henderson, New York, NY WISCONSIN, Bill Heart WISCONSIN, Kim McCarthy Patsy Ishiyama, San Francisco, CA WYOMING, John Deakins WYOMING, Dave Sweet George Jenkins, St. Davids, PA Eaddo Kiernan, Greenwich, CT Sharon Lance, Centennial, CO Coldwater Conservation Fund Paul Maciejewski, Elma, NY Officers Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Robert J. Teufel Nancy Mackinnon, Manchester Center, VT Timothy C. Collins Whitney Tilt Chair Michael De Vlaming Flinn Paul Vahldiek Mick McCorcle, Fairview, TX Tom Stoddard Sanjeev Mehra, Greenwich, CT Jim Eden Henry Wendt Steven Gewirz George A. Wiegers Rick Murphree, Knoxville, TN Vice Chair Theodore Roosevelt, IV John B. Howard, Esq. Kirkwood Otey, Charlotte, NC Hamilton E. James David P. Hunt Ex-Officio George J. Records, Oklahoma City, OK Charles M. Johnson Duke Welter Kevin Reilly, Santa Fe, NM Secretary John McCosker, PhD. Oakleigh Thorne James F. Kelley Mike Slater, Kalkaska, MI Stephen T. Moss Charles F. Gauvin Edmond Opler, Jr. Steve Strandberg, San Francisco, CA Directors Perk Perkins Director Emeritus Gay Barclay Elizabeth Storer, Tucson, AZ Richard Reagan Thomas W. Offutt, III John Bell Oakleigh Thorne, Millbrook, NY Leigh Seippel J. Steven Renkert Phil Belling Mark Ullman, New Canaan, CT Robert E. Strawbridge III Margaret D. Keller

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From the President SUMMER 2010 • VOLUME 52 • NUMBER 3 Chris Wood [ ] EDITOR Steven R. Kinsella ASSOCIATE EDITOR Hannah Moulton Belec Trout Unlimited 1300 North 17th Street Dream Job Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22209-3801 Ph: (703) 522-0200 While cleaning out some boxes recently, I found copies of two letters I wrote Fax: (703) 284-9400 [email protected]______in 1993. The first was addressed to the author John Gierach, asking if I www.tu.org could come to Colorado to clean his truck, carry his fly rods, and otherwise DESIGN grayHouse design learn to be a trout bum. The second was to TU’s then-newish CEO, Charles [email protected] Gauvin, asking for a job. I didn’t have any discernable skills, but I did have a DISPLAY ADVERTISING Will Jordan trout tattoo on my ankle. [email protected]______(406) 248-3666

I didn’t receive a response from either. And, after a while, I gave up on the TROUT UNLIMITED’S MISSION: idea of becoming a trout bum, but not of wanting to work for TU. When I To conserve, left the Forest Service in 2001, I wanted to work for an organization where protect and restore North the love of the outdoors, conservation and fishing were less avocations than America’s vocations. That organization was, and remains, TU. coldwater fisheries and their I am humbled by the confidence of the board in selecting me as TU’s new watersheds. president and CEO, and grateful for the years in which I’ve had the oppor-

tunity to learn from Charles and Whit Fosburgh. Charles and I will work Trout (ISSN 0041-3364) is together closely over the coming year to ensure a smooth transition. Whit, published four times a year in TU’s longtime development honcho, is moving on to run the Theodore January, April, July, and October by Trout Unlimited as a service Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, an important partner of TU’s on a to its members. Annual individual range of conservation issues. I look forward to working with the TRCP with membership for U.S. residents is $35, $40US for residents of Whit at the helm. Canada and $55US for residents Every TU member I know loves to fish. But to say that TU is about fishing of all other countries. All told, TU offers 10 membership categories. is like saying that fishing is only about catching fish. Our love of the sport Join or renew online at www.tu.org. compels us to understand the relationship between healthy habitat, suffi- TU does occasionally make its cient stream flows and quality fishing. With over 150 staff nationwide and mailing list available to like-minded organizations. Please contact us 140,000 dedicated members, TU is in a better position than ever to achieve at the address above if you would our conservation goals of protecting, reconnecting and restoring the waters like your name withheld. and lands that sustain us all. Postmaster send address Aldo Leopold once said the only progress that matters is that made on the changes to: Trout Magazine landscape of the back 40. As this issue of TTrout describes, whether it is foster- Trout Unlimited ing a long-forgotten population of Lahontan cutthroats in Utah, protecting 1300 North 17th Street Suite 500 9 million acres of high quality fish habitat in Idaho or training the next gen- Arlington, VA 22209-3801 eration of angler conservationists, TU is all about results on the back 40. Thanks for your support of TU. Stay in touch.

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From the Editor [ Steven R. Kinsella] Celebrating Diversity of Opinion The thread that connects all TUers is the love of trout and salmon and the willingness to put that heart- felt bond into practice by working to preserve and protect the resource. After that, TUers are a diverse bunch with opinions, political leanings and philosophies as varied as the weather. That fact was made clear recently when we published a letter from a member who wrote that he believed population control was one of the answers to the environmental challenges faced by the world. That letter brought responses from several TUers who strongly disagreed and expressed disappointment that we would run such a letter. “Our Readers Write” exists to provide a forum for our members on a wide range of subjects related to trout and salmon. It is not an outlet for the official or even unofficial positions of TU on the issues of the day, nor should it be interpreted as such. The letters are the thoughts, musings and opinions of the TU membership on the conservation issues they care about. In my opinion, one of the strengths of TU is its diversity and as editor I will use the letters section to celebrate that feature of the organization. As long as they are relevant to the issues we are engaged in, all opinions are welcome in “Our Readers Write,” as are the opinions of those opinions.

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Elevate your Fly Rocky Barker is the environmental reporter for the Fishing to a new level. Idaho Statesman and the author of Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America and co-author of the Fly Fisher’s Guide to Idaho with Ken Retallic. Rocky was the primary researcher for an award-winning series of editorials in 1997 calling for the breaching of four Snake River dams to save salmon.

Kirk Deeter is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream, and the editor of the magazine’s fly-fishing blog, fsflytalk. com. He is the co-author of the books Castwork: Reflections Our Contributors of Fly Fishing Guides and the American West, Tideline: Captains, Fly-Fishing and the American Coast and The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing. His works on fly fishing have appeared in Big Sky Journal, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, Salt Water Sportsman, 5280 and elsewhere. Deeter and his family live in Pine, Colo.

Cover photographer Bryan Gregson is a fish- Celebrating 10 years of building the finest erman and amateur photographer currently liv- hand-woven furled leaders. Sizes for all line ing in the Rocky Mountains. A longtime seasonal weights and conditions. Saltwater and toothy resident of Utah, the pursuit of water has taken him fish, too. The Original, and still the best. Visit from Hawaii to the East Coast for over 20 years. us at furledleaders.com. Images from his adventures have been featured in many different media outlets. He shot the salmonflies cover image on Utah’s Thistle Creek. See BlueSky Furled Leaders more of his work at utahcutthroat.com. 1163 Garland St., Green Bay, WI 54301 USA [email protected] • Ph/Fax 920-430-1239 Tim Hawkes directs the Utah Water Project for Trout Unlimited. An attorney by training, Hawkes dab- bles in everything from haiku poetry to children’s por- trait photography. He also loves to spend time exploring the dramatic landscapes of Utah with his wife and four children. He blogs at timothyhawkes.blogspot.com. Introduces the World’s First FISH COUNTER David Lass runs TU’s Lake Tahoe office, based out of the fishing and skiing mecca of Truckee, Calif. He works on public lands issues in the Sierra that affect trout, including ORV issues, wilderness protection and youth outreach. A fanatical angler, skier and photographer, he is happy to call the Sierra Nevada his home. See his photos of a college outreach trip starting on page 41.

Bill Stieger is a freelance writer and jazz 24 Piece Display drummer from River Falls, Wisc. His writings have been featured in numerous fly-fishing mag- azines. He is the former editor of St. Croix Valley Available in: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Golden Trout Press. He fishes to forget his worries and says it and Brown Trout works for him better than religion. Support catch and release Keep accurate count of your daily catch Guide Tony Tarasewicz, moved to Lake City, Colo. Track up to 100 ﬁsh from Denver 13 years ago with his wife Kay and son Artwork by Joe Tomelleri Nicholas to take over ownership of The Sportsman Outdoors & Fly Shop. Leaving the comfort of established Please visit our website for a list of ﬂy shops Fly shop/distributor inquiries welcome careers in software development and aviation was not an easy decision to make, but he says once you have “the Lake 942 Quarry Street, Petaluma, CA 94954 707.763.7575 City experience” few things in life can compete. [email protected] www.pitrivercompany.com

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Our Readers Write

I have been exposed to fly fishing over our population before it is too late and, proponents of this project circulate, the last three years and I am trying to although I know it is treading on very there will be negative consequences learn from as many resources as pos- politically thin ice, I would like to see to the Bristol Bay ecosystem and the sible. After sending for my subscription, organizations like Trout Unlimited magnificent fishery it supports. Any I anxiously awaited my first issue of address this issue. risk is unacceptable but the risk we Trout. I was extremely surprised when Joe Stemke are talking about here is profound. I opening my first issue to read the let- Delmar, N.Y. can only hope that through the efforts ter of one reader suggesting that “TU of dedicated biologists such as those promote a one child policy like China I am a federal fish biologist and have profiled in your spring issue, and the has.” The reader opened with the topic been for over 20 years. I deal with the efforts of TU and others, this destruc- of mountaintop removal mining, but potential consequences of proposed tive project can be derailed. moved to imply the United States is land use actions, and the realized Jeff A. Thomas overpopulated. I was astonished that consequences of actions already taken, Selah, Wash. this letter was actually printed since it on a daily basis. I can honestly say that appears to be such a radical suggestion. I have never encountered a proposed Thank you for publishing such a terrific My hope is that this thinking is not project with a greater potential to be piece by Brett Prettyman, “Fishing in the consistent with [TU’s mission]. We must environmentally devastating as the Name of Science,” [winter 2010] about all strive to conserve and be stewards Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska. the Yellowstone Fly Fishing Volunteer of God’s wonderful creation, but the That the State of Alaska would even Program. The article perfectly captures comments printed seem extreme. I look consider permitting this project is the essence of this citizen volunteer- forward to being educated by TU in astounding, bordering on insanity. I fisheries science program. Through the future, but must ask that if TU is don’t care how much propaganda the volunteerism, anglers with a great love in agreement with [that] reader, then I must ask to have my membership cancelled and my dues returned. ______Darrell Bozeman Hartland, Mich. Blog Rollup Editor’s note: Our Readers Write features letters A sample of what our tech-savvy readers are saying about the from members with all viewpoints, but these issues. Visit tu.org/blog to voice your opinions. letters should not be construed as TU’s official stance on any issue. See the editor’s column on Deadliest Catch Captain Opposes Pebble Mine page six for more information. As a geologist, geochemist and fishing enthusiast I feel that the [mining] industry is unwilling to function in an environmentally responsibly manner. I Regarding the letter written by Conan guess it’s profit that drives their actions. I have worked as a mine geologist O’Harrow in your spring issue, all I and have held the opinion that we could function without despoiling our can say is bravo! I congratulate Mr. surroundings. We have essentially destroyed much of the Atlantic and Pacific O’Harrow on having the courage fisheries. And the Bering Sea may be one of the few remaining healthy areas. That mine must not be allowed to destroy Bristol Bay. to bring the issue of overpopulation —James forth, with regard to our energy and environmental problems. This is a Were Greenbacks Discovered in Utah? very politically difficult thing to do. In talking with the regional fisheries biologist overseeing the potential The real issue on virtually all these greenback population in the La Sal Mountains, the biologist indicated problems—from declining fisheries to that in addition to the genetic testing being done (which only indicated a global warming, energy shortages and preliminary connection) the La Sal population has mirrored that of other greenback populations most recently discovered. The similarities included even our current economic woes—is small isolated headwater populations on the west side of the divide. The the already too large and ever-growing findings are currently unexplainable to them as well. Definitely science has number of consumers of the finite no answer for this and subsequently no evidence that they are indeed true amount of energy, resources and space greenback populations. But since they are just trout, it sure is fun to think of which this planet possesses. We have the the possibilities that they would exist in Utah. For now, for the sake of fun, intelligence and technology to control let’s leave open the possibility until the door is slammed shut. —Dan

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of Yellowstone and its native fish tion and economic development. What populations contribute in a meaning- is typically left out of the story are the ful way to their long term conserva- intangible attributes of special places—the tion. In this regard, the program fits things that only those who have intimate perfectly with Trout Unlimited’s connections to that specific place can goals. However, I want your readers know. I no longer live in the West, but to know that the program’s success has I travel to Wyoming frequently because been made possible not only because for me, the Upper Green River is the of fly fishing volunteers but owing to center of my soul, the place I go to be the generous, private contributions restored physically and mentally. Fishing from Yellowstone’s avid supporters. the Upper Green is more than sport—it Immediately following the first season is a communion. Thank you for caring that John Varley, Todd Koel, and I about this magnificent and irreplaceable developed the volunteer program in resource, and please keep your reader- 2002, the Yellowstone Park Foundation ship posted on TU’s involvement in signed on to support the program, and protecting the Upper Green. since then the Foundation has provided Judy Francis ______the funding. The Foundation’s support Morganton, N.C. is unwavering and vital to the program’s existence and success. For information Correction ______on how TU members and chapters can In conjunction with a story on fishing continue this legacy of generosity, please Montana’s Rock Creek, the spring 2010 visit the Yellowstone Park Foundation issue of Trout ran a photograph of Rock at ypf.org/flyfishvolunteers. Finally, our Creek on page 35. Unfortunately, it sincerest thanks to Trout Unlimited was the wrong Rock Creek in Montana. Notice of and to Trout for the unwavering support Here’s what the one the story refer- Annual Meeting of Yellowstone National Park’s native enced looks like. fish populations. Friday, September 17, 2010, Tim Bywater 8:45 a.m. St. George, Utah at the Waterville Valley Conference Center, I have been a member of TU for many Waterville Valley, N.H. years, and eagerly read each edition of Trout when it arrives in my mailbox. Notice is hereby given to the members of Trout Unlimited, Over the years, your magazine has a Michigan non-profit cor- described some of the most beautiful poration, that, pursuant to and fruitful watersheds in this country— the provisions of the bylaws, but your story about the Upper Green the 51st annual meeting of River [winter 2010] in Wyoming was members will be held to elect the most meaningful to me personally. trustees, amend the bylaws It is a place of scenic wonders, abundant Your Letters: of the corporation and take wildlife, expansive landscapes, and up any other business that Readers are invited to submit letters comes properly before the something much, much more. As a on anything that appears in Trout. meeting. Beginning August 1, natural resource protection profes- We may edit submissions for clarity sional, I know the many conflicting or length. Send letters to: 2010, members may obtain a copy of the proposed bylaw values that a watershed presents to those Our Readers Write amendments and the 2010 living within its boundaries, as well TROUT UNLIMITED proxy at tu.org/bylawsamend- 1300 N. 17th St., Suite 500 as to those who visit occasionally. The ____ments or through the mail by narrative is often framed as a conflict Arlington, VA 22209-3801 calling (703) 522-0200. between science-based preservation [email protected]. efforts and regional resource extrac-

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Pocket Water news bits and bytes

Felt Sole Restrictions Make Big Strides fforts to restrict the use of felt ments recognize the threat of invasive the Alaska restrictions and the Vermont E soled waders and wading boots species of all kinds. As there is evidence measure originated from TU grassroots have made gains coast to coast, helping that felt soles are the most likely piece of members. to reduce the spread of invasive species angling gear that could transport aquatic Many retail manufacturers have sup- that are harmful or deadly to fish. invasive species, they’re looking at felt ported a transition away from the pro- In late March, the Alaska Board of sole bans as a way to reduce the risk of duction of felt soled wading products. At Fisheries adopted a statewide phase- spreading invasives to new waters,” says present, most major manufacturers offer out of all felt sole wading products. Dave Kumlien, executive director of non-absorbent soled wading boots and Their decision follows a previous TU’s Whirling Disease Foundation. several have committed to producing action last year when they banned the In 2008, TU called on fishing gear only non-felt products in the future. use of felt soled waders and boots in manufacturers to eliminate production TU still urges anglers—even when Southeast Alaska’s fresh waterways as of felt-soled waders and wading boots wearing non-felt soles—to always of January 1, 2011. That date has now due to their impacts on fisheries. Both inspect, clean and dry their fishing been extended to January 1, 2012, to coincide with the statewide measure. “As there is evidence that felt soles are the most likely piece of angling gear Four thousand miles to the east, that could transport aquatic invasive species, they’re looking at felt sole the Vermont Legislature approved a bans as a way to reduce the risk of spreading invasives to new waters.” measure to enact a similar ban in that —Dave Kumlien, executive director of TU’s Whirling Disease Foundation. state in April 2011 due to growing problems with invasive species, includ- gear as a way to prevent the spread of ing didymo. aquatic invasive species. Both actions come as science-based “It is true that, by itself, banning studies are increasingly pointing to felt won’t solve the invasive species felt soles as a major carrier of invasive problem, but it is something that can species including didymo, the spores be done and it will help. Also, felt that cause whirling disease and New sole bans do raise awareness amongst Zealand mud snails. One such study, anglers of their potential role in mov- published last year by scientists working ing invasive species and that will help with the government of Canada, traced motivate them to adopt the clean the spread of didymo across Vancouver angling practices to inspect, clean and Island to the soles of anglers’ boots. dry their gear and not to move fish, “These actions demonstrate that fish fish parts, plants or water between and wildlife agencies and state govern- drainages,” says Kumlien. —SK

EPA To Study Potential Health Impacts of Hydrofracturing A mid concerns that hydrofracturing on human health and the environ- relied on the best available science to may impact ground and surface ment,” says Dr. Paul T. Anastas, assis- make its policy decisions, and good sci- water quality, the U.S. Environmental tant administrator for EPA’s Office ence on hydraulic fracturing has been Protection Agency announced they of Research and Development. “The in short supply. The study is timely and will conduct an in-depth study of the study will be conducted through a the results are urgently needed.” potential environmental and human transparent, peer-reviewed process, Hydrofracturing—or fracing as it health effects of the process. with significant stakeholder input.” is more commonly known—pumps “Our research will be designed to Steve Moyer, TU’s vice president for chemicals, water and sand into a well at answer questions about the poten- government affairs, praised the decision high pressure to fracture rock forma- tial impact of hydraulic fracturing to conduct the study. “TU has always tions and release natural gas.

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Shell Oil Drops Plans for Yampa hell oil has dropped plans to seek conditional water rights for Colorado’s S Yampa River. The company cited their ongoing research and development activities and the global economic downturn as the basis for their decision. TU aggressively opposed Shell’s efforts to secure a 15 billion gallon water right for oil-shale development from the Yampa River and a storage right of 45,000 acre-feet (15 billion gallons), characterizing the proposal as a potential “deathblow to fish and stream health in the lower Yampa River.” Shell was unable to specify how it would use the Yampa River water. Their application was, therefore, susceptible to challenge, and it seems likely that the water court would have rejected the claim if Shell had continued to pursue it, says Drew Peternell, TU’s Colorado Water Project director. “Nonetheless, we are pleased with Shell’s decision to drop its bid for Yampa River water,” he says. The Yampa is the last major undammed river in Colorado, and one of the last rivers in the state with unclaimed water. Wild browns, rainbows and cutthroats live in the popular wild trout river’s upper reaches. Pigeon River Dam Removal Agreement

In April, Michigan TU finalized an agreement that will remove a major dam on the Pigeon River. The agreement resolves litigation brought by TU news from the world of fisheries science. and others as a result of a June 2008 accidental sediment release from the Golden Lotus Dam, which resulted in a massive fish kill of an estimated 400,000 trout. The dam had failed sev- BeforeBefore ffisheryishery managers eral other times. reintroreintroduceduce native trout, ttheyhey ffre-re- The Pigeon River is one of quentlyquently neeneedd to eeliminateliminate non-native trout Michigan’s most popular trout streams. Flowing 43 miles from that compete with, hybridizehybridize with or eat native Gaylord to Mullett Lake, the dam fish.fish. Fish toxicants rotenone or antimycin are the pre- significantly altered the river when ferredferred choice to remove unwanted fish after multiple rounds it was built over 100 years ago. The ofof electroshocking,electroshocking, but aquatic insects also are susceptible. As a dam removal is expected to greatly result, concerns arise oververr both the rerecorecoverrecoveryy of insect popopulationspulations improve the trout fishery for nearly 20 and the fate of any raree insect species. As parpart of their efforts to restore miles downstream. Bonneville cutthroat troutroutout in Great Basin NationalNationNatio Park, biologists com- TU became involved in the litiga- pared the imimpactsmpactsmp of both toxicants tion in 2008 to help ensure protection When Bad Fish Live to macroinvermacroinvertebrates.rttebrates. Aquatic insects and restoration of the Pigeon River. With Good Bugs recovered relarelativelylaativelyt rapidly from both, TU wanted to remove the dam to but insect divedivdiversityversity as well as preferred improve conditions for trout and to fish foods (mayflies, stonefliesonefliesneflies and caddisfliescaddisfliecaddisflies) were reduced more with prevent future dam-related problems rotenone. No individual insectnsect species werewew lost when using antimy- from occurring. ccinin bbutut ffourour were stistillll missing ffromrom rotenone-treaterotenone-treatedd sites one year “This is a great day for coldwater later.later. TThus,hus, antimycin is tthehe prepreferredferred cchemicalhemical to avoiavoidd uninunin-- conservation, our natural resources tendedtended conseconsequencesquences to aaquaticquatic insect communities. and the trout in the Pigeon River,” —Jack—Jack WiWilliams,lliams, TU senior scientisscientistt says John Walters, president of the NNorthorth AAmericanmerican JournaJournall ooff FisFisheriesheries Management Headwaters TU Chapter. 2009. Vol. 29. PagesPages 11620-1635.620-1635.

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Unquenchable:Uhbl RISE Gasland The Little Red Book America’s Water Crisis and (Confluence Films, $29.95, (Directed by Josh Fox, now play- of Fly Fishing confluencefilms.tv) ing on HBO and at film festivals ______Kirk Deeter and Charlie Meyers What to Do About It nationwide, gaslandthemovie. From the producers of ______(Skyhorse Publishing, $16.95, Robert Glennon (Island Press, com)___ skyhorsepublishing.com) $27.95, islandpress.com) the highly acclaimed documentary DRIFT, comes a This HBO documentary “There is no such thing as From gushing fountains in visual feast of 80 minutes delves into the sometimes a perfect cast. There are arid Las Vegas to snow-mak- of fly fishing ventures in questionable underground only casts that catch fish ing in Georgia, America has a Venezuela, Idaho, Florida, world of natural gas devel- and casts that do not.” So seemingly infinite capacity to Alaska, New Orleans and opment, and the threats says the opening tip of a ignore reality when it comes Patagonia. The movie hydraulic fracturing pose for book of 250 tips designed to managing a finite resource: includes well-known anglers watersheds in the Marcellus to make anyone—even the water. Glennon has a keen such as René Harrop, Tom Shale region and beyond. seasoned angler—a better eye for such excess, and busi- Bie, Capt. Alex Griffin, and Be ready for edgy camera trout fisherman. Written ness as usual—more dams, Mike Lawson as well as oth- movements and transitions, by Kirk Deeter and the diversions and wells—won’t ers. It’s a good addition to which produce a raw, emo- late Charlie Meyers, this cut it. Instead, Glennon calls the DVD fishing library that tional response to an issue book is a must have for for a new water ethic of con- will prove especially wel- that is very personal for the the bedside table of any servation and cooperation, come during long winter people who live near and angler. like Trout Unlimited’s water months. spend time on rivers like the leasing projects in Montana. Delaware.

TU: Ban Gas Wells in Pennsylvania Floodplains alling it an environmental disaster waiting to happen, nies operating existing wells in the floodplains to perma- C Pennsylvania TU and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation nently cap and abandon them, and reclaim the sites to their have asked the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental natural condition. Protection to ban natural gas wells in the state’s floodplains. Meanwhile, some good news has come out of Pennsylvania The request comes after January flooding near natural with the announcement that the keystone state will beef up gas wells raised fears that the chemicals used in the hydrof- its oil and natural gas regulatory staff and regulations. racturing process and the contaminated wastewater could ProPublica reports that Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell pollute streams and rivers in the area. announced that the DEP will nearly double its enforcement Current Pennsylvania oil and gas regulations do not allow staff, open a new office closer to the drilling sites and release well pads to be located within 100 feet of streams but there new drilling regulations. is no prohibition against drilling wells in floodplains—which In 2008, Pennsylvania had just 35 people to oversee hold excess water during flood events. 74,774 wells, which meant more than 2,000 wells per inspec- “This loophole must be closed immediately,” says Dave tor. In 2009, they increased their enforcement staff to 76, Rothrock, president of TU’s Pennsylvania Council. and with the latest announcement, they are preparing to add TU and its partners also asked the state to order compa- 68 more people to the Bureau of Oil and Gas Management.

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Question & Answer with Eric Schwaab, head of NOAA Fisheries »

As the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’s National Marine Fisheries Service, Eric Schwaab oversees the management and conservation of marine fisheries and coastal fisheries habitat. Prior to coming to NMFS in February 2010, he spent 24 years working in various capacities within the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Shortly after his appointment, he was embroiled in controversy when ESPN Outdoors reported on their website that the Obama administration was threatening to impose fishing limits on coastal sport fishing. Subsequently, the executive producer of ESPN Outdoors issued a statement saying that the piece was an opinion piece, and not a news article. As the head of NOAA Fisheries, Eric Schwaab is responsible for the preservation of fisher- Shortly after taking office you were hit with the accusation that the Obama ies habitat. administration was set to impose fishing limits and bans. What did that experience teach you? It was disappointing but the most important thing that it did was to reinforce the need for much more effective and regular interaction with recreational stakeholders. We have since brought on a senior recreational policy advisor and have plans for a recreational fishing summit. I am an avid recreational fisherman, and based on that and my professional experience, I understand the deep connection between recreational fishermen and their stewardship and commitment to the resource. We really need to communicate regularly and I understand the work together to identify the priority actions that we can focus our energy on. deep connection We are going to work with the recreational fishing community to make sure the opportunity to fish is protected and enhanced going forward. We need to between recre- strive to take care of the fish and the places to fish. ational fisher- What needs to be done to protect and support coldwater fisheries in light of the men and their challenges they face? There are landscape-sized field challenges that embody the need for an stewardship and ecosystem-based approach to conservation and management. Another piece commitment to [of the approach] is system resiliency. With challenges like climate change, it will require us to build in connectivity and resiliency. From a management the resource. perspective, these fish are found everywhere, from the headwaters of a river to the ocean, so we also need to foster coordinated action.

TU places a lot of emphasis on habitat. Will improving habitat be a priority for you? Habitat will absolutely be a priority for me. I like to take a systems view—habitat is the foundation for that. We need an ecosystem-based perspective that focuses on the big habitat issues but at the same time, we also need to look at locally-driv- en issues including economics. For example, fisheries management issues such as catch shares [protecting fish stocks through biologically-based annual catch limits by allocating a specific portion of that limit to entities such as fishermen, cooperatives or communities] will help us align economic drivers with sustain- ability…not only for commercial fisheries but also recreational fisheries.

You are known as a serious sport fisherman. What is your favorite type of recreational sports fishing? I have a history of fishing on the Atlantic coast, in the Chesapeake Bay and in streams and rivers all across the county. I honestly have to say that my favorite fishing opportunity is the one that is front of me.

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Watersheds [ by Christopher Camuto] Commitment, Continuity and Boots on the Ground

RICK WEBB AND I GO WAY BACK. and biological decline of streams and the Southern Appalachians: A Trout We have fished together a few lakes in the Adirondack region in the Resource at Considerable Risk”). times, but most of my memories 1960s.) Rainfall with pH levels more Those TU volunteers helped the about being in the field with him acidic than vinegar had been recorded researchers establish valuable baseline are about water-sampling excursions. on the peaks of the Great Smoky data for tracking trends in acidifica- Twice I joined him sampling the St. Mountains on the border of North tion, information that proved critical Marys watershed, on the west slope of Carolina and Tennessee. Biological in the political debate about improving Virginia’s Blue Ridge, and I also made declines of fish, including trout, and federal clean air regulations. Out of one memorable trip with him on the benthic macro-invertebrates in the that original baseline survey of 458 Laurel Fork, a fine trout stream in region’s trout streams were beginning streams in 34 counties, 65 streams the Allegheny Mountains where it’s to be observed and there were dire were selected for quarterly sampling, a possible we may have also wet a fly predictions about the fate of the region’s rigorous data-collection program that line. Back in the day—the late 1980s mountain trout streams. has gone on for 22 years. and early 1990s—I saw Rick at more I must have first encountered Rick In the winter 1998 issue of Trout, I meetings than either of us would like Webb at Trout Unlimited meetings in returned to the issue in “Acid Rain to remember—U.S. Forest Service Charlottesville, Va. where he began his Revisited: A Wild Trout Resource gatherings, Virginia Department statewide enlistment of TU volunteers Still at Risk,” the general point of of Fish and Game occasions, and to do a comprehensive stream sampling which was that the hard-won 1990 Trout Unlimited events at the chapter of nearly all of western Virginia’s wild revisions of the Clean Air Act had not and state level. For more than two trout streams in the spring of 1987. gone far enough to protect the trout decades, Rick’s passion has been The Virginia Department of Game streams of the central and southern studying the stream-water chemistry and Inland Fisheries, the National Park Appalachians, many of which had little of western Virginia, an area hard hit Service and the National Forest Service buffering capacity. Biological decline by acid deposition. Since 1987, he has were all strong cooperating partners in was under way. VTSSS conducted been the project coordinator of the what became the Virginia Trout Stream another comprehensive survey of University of Virginia’s Virginia Trout Sensitivity Study [swas.evsc.virginia. Virginia’s trout streams in 2000, and Stream Sensitivity Study, one of the edu]. The prospect of region-wide TU again put the majority of the boots most highly regarded examinations decline of wild trout streams, many on the ground. of the chemistry of trout streams in of them full of the wild brook trout I heard from Rick Webb last winter the nation. native to the region, was as alarming that VTSSS was mobilizing yet again. In the late-1980s, when much- as the mobilization of hundreds of TU By the time you read this, 150 or so needed revision of the Clean Air volunteers was heartening. volunteers will have gone into the Act was stalled in political malaise, In the winter 1991 issue of Trout I field to take another “snapshot” of high levels of acidic deposition due to wrote at length about the acidification the chemistry of western Virginia’s sulfur and nitrogen emissions were issue in the southern Appalachians and streams. VTSSS hopes to carry being recorded throughout the central also about Trout Unlimited’s critical on quarterly sampling for another and southern Appalachians, from role in putting an army of stream 10 years, creating a 32-year data Pennsylvania to Georgia. (This fol- samplers in the mountains during that base—more than 8,500 samplings. lowed the well-publicized acidification first VTSSS survey (“Dropping Acid in Although successive improvements in

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federal clean air regulations in the last 20 years have improved stream-water chemistry and biological habitability in New England, northern New York, the Catskills and parts of Pennsylvania, Webb points out that the 2009 EPA Acid Rain Program Report indicates that “western Virginia is showing less recov- ery (and even continued acidification) relative to other areas where the problem is being studied.” Hundreds of miles of headwater mountain trout streams remain at risk, the buffering capacity of the soils of their watersheds—never Stream-sampling, habitat improvement and protection, as well as pursuing winnable environmental legislative goals, remain the most important ways of being a practicing trout conservationist. great to begin with—heavily damaged by VTSSS is a superb example of what can the TU volunteers in Virginia and TU acid deposition in the past. The task of be done by citizen-anglers to address volunteers elsewhere who go about the protecting southern Appalachian trout environmental issues. humble business of “ground truthing” streams—an issue I raised 20 years ago The mounting evidence of climate environmental problems at the level in the pages of Trout—remains. change tied to industrial pollutants of action Trout Unlimited is designed This column is not the best place justifiably dominates much environ- to address. for a detailed discussion of the acidi- mental news. And air pollution is, of To read Camuto’s 1991 and 1998 fication problem, one of our “older” course, part of that larger story. But Trout articles on acid rain, visit environmental issues. I noted in the grappling directly with the science of ______TU.ORG/BLOG lead of the 1998 article that the acid global climate processes is beyond the deposition problem had already lost reach of most of us on a given weekend. Chris Camuto is the author of four the headlines to the then burgeoning Grabbing a topo map, a stream ther- books and is the book review columnist ozone depletion and global warming mometer, and a Ziploc bag of Nalgene for Gray’s Sporting Journal. His first book, A issues. But the 22 year history of the bottles is not. Stream-sampling, habitat Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge, celebrates its 20th VTSSS, and Trout Unlimited’s stalwart improvement and protection, as well year in print this summer. His most involvement with it, is a reminder of as pursuing winnable environmental recent book, Time and Tide in Acadia, is now the value of direct engagement with the legislative goals, remain the most available in paperback. He makes his data collection that all environmental important ways of being a practicing home on a woodland farm in central problem-solving depends upon. The trout conservationist. So cheers to all Pennsylvania.

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[By Tim Hawkes]

Pilot Peak rises abruptly from salt flats on the Utah-Nevada border and climbs to nearly 11,000 feet. The tallest peak for miles around, it earned its name as a visual guide—a pilot—for early explorers like Kit Carson and John C. Frémont and for emi- Remarkable Trout grant trains heading West to California, including the ill-fated Donner Party, which camped at a spring near the mountain’s foot in September of 1846. Today, the peak har- bors emigrants of a different kind: threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout, the largest

Desert Survivor: Pilot Peak’s Remarkable Trout Remarkable Desert Pilot Peak’s Survivor: of all the inland cutthroats, a fish that, at maturity in its historical habitat, could top out at an incredible 40 to 60 pounds.

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The story of how these “salmon Utah-Nevada border, caught a couple of trout” (as Frémont described them) strange-looking cutthroat in Morrison found their way to an isolated creek Creek, a narrow, brush-choked rib- on a barren hillside in Utah is every bon of water that flows from springs bit as strange and fantastic as the story off the east side of Pilot Peak until it of the Donner Party, though this one disappears into desert gravel just a few promises a better ending—thanks miles below. He figured they must to a few dedicated individuals, TU be Bonneville cutthroats, the true and project partners like U.S. Fish native trout in the Bonneville Basin. & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land But these fish were long and skinny, Management, Utah Division of Wildlife and looked like no cutthroat he had Resources, and Nevada Department seen before. of Wildlife. Subsequent genetic testing proved Many the Pilot of Peak fingerlings returned are Lake Pyramid to now pushing 20 inches, perhaps time, in and, “salmonthe epic trout” those swim will old of again. waters In the mid-1970s, Don Duff, a them to be not only Lahontan cut- TU member and biologist doing fish throats, with origins in Nevada, species—the largest known strain of survey work for the BLM along the but the Pyramid Lake strain of that Lahontans, and one that went extinct in Pyramid Lake in 1943. Most of the Lahontans stocked in Pyramid Lake in the recent past come from a non-Pyramid Lake brood source, and rarely exceed 15 pounds. No one knows exactly how those fish found their way to Morrison Creek, though the once abundant Lahontans were shipped from Pyramid Lake all over the western United States for food in the early 1900s. Duff’s best guess is that a train containing Pyramid Lake Lahontans stopped for water along the Southern Pacific rail line north of Pilot Peak, and that a shepherd or some other local resident took a few fish, carried them south, and planted them in what was then a barren, desert stream. Those fish reproduced, and their descendants endured over the long intervening years until Duff found them in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Steve Doudy, now the northern conservation director for TU’s Great Basin Chapter, purchased land near and around Morrison Creek and built a home and ranch, perched on an alluvial fan some 1,000 feet above the salt pan. In 1985, UDWR biologist Bryce Nielson persuaded Doudy to build a pond on his ranch so that the agency could transplant a few trout from Morrison Creek into the pond. Using TU Embrace-A-Stream grants totaling roughly $75,000 as seed money, and working with vari-

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300,000 eggs in a single season, eggs something that could not have hap- which were taken back into Nevada pened but for a historical mystery, a and reared at the Lahontan National small desert creek and the patience, Fish Hatchery Complex. dedication and vision of people like Those fish, in turn, have been re- Don Duff, Steve Doudy, Bryce Nielson introduced into streams and lakes in and others. ous federal and state agency partners, their native range in Nevada, includ- According to fisheries biologists, Doudy ultimately built three ponds, ing Walker Lake, Lake Tahoe, and, many of the Pilot Peak fingerlings which eventually supported nearly most miraculously of all, Pyramid returned to Pyramid Lake are now 40 pairs of Lahontan cutthroats, Lake itself, where over 100,000 pure pushing 20 inches, and, in time, the largest of which weighed over 16 strain Pyramid Lake Lahontan trout perhaps the epic “salmon trout” of old pounds. The fish produced as many as have now been re-introduced. That’s will swim those waters again.

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Idaho’s Roadless Rule Puts in Place a New Standard [By Rocky Barker]

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ou won’t find the Spion Kop the Bush administration developed a court, in Congress or by the Obama roadless area on any list of separate process that allowed states like administration. And what occurred Y Idaho to write their own roadless rules. in Idaho with that state’s development local attractions in northern Idaho. The court battles aren’t over but the of its own roadless rule, and TU’s role Anglers who know, walk through argument against protecting national in that process, has had a significant the 23,000 acres of mixed larch and treasures like Spion Kop is. impact in helping to shape the national Douglas-fir forest that surround the “We don’t have to make the case that debate over roadless areas. North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River these places are valuable any more,” to catch the native westslope cutthroat says Scott Stouder, TU’s western field trout that live there. The forest is mostly coordinator who lives in Idaho. The Idaho Rule 100 years old this year after the historic That means no matter how the From the passage of the Wilderness Act 1910 fire burned 3 million acres in two final court cases pan out or whether in 1964 forward, the Forest Service days in Idaho and Montana. Congress steps in to give even stronger conducted a series of roadless reviews A four-foot wide old larch snag protection for roadless national forests, aimed at resolving what roadless along the trail reveals what the native the vast majority will remain wild and lands would be wilderness and which forest looked like before the firestorm undeveloped. Since 2001 only seven ones would be released for logging raced through. Cedars, including a miles of road have been built in national and other development. But by the few ancient survivors, line part of the forest roadless areas. 1990s, the timber program that had river’s headwaters. But the final boundaries of the last bankrolled the road-building program Spion Kop is like most of the 58 forest frontier will be decided soon in was played out. million acres of roadless national forests left after more than two centuries of keeping the imprints of civilization Rivers in roadless areas, like the North Fork out of the nation’s hinterlands. Its forests store millions of gallons of water, of the Coeur D’Alene, are the last refuge of preserve water quality and provide the West’s native trout, salmon and steelhead. habitat for fish and wildlife. Roadless areas are especially important for native trout. According to studies by TU, more than 60 percent of remaining healthy populations of westslope, greenback and Colorado River cutthroat trout are found in such areas. At least 76 percent of remaining strong populations of bull trout live in roadless areas. Rivers in roadless areas, like the North Fork of the Coeur D’Alene, are the last refuge of the West’s native trout, salmon and steelhead. The chance that Spion Kop will ever be protected as federally designated wilderness is almost as small as the odds it will be logged. That’s because the last remaining roadless areas in national forests were protected under a rule approved in the waning days of the Clinton administration. Since then, opponents to the rule Westslope cutthroat have filed more than 10 lawsuits and

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“I could never have in good conscience pushed for building roads into that area.” — Joe Hinson, former timber industry lobbyist

Economics, combined with growing most Americans cherish their public concerns about endangered species lands,” Dombeck wrote. and water quality, replaced wilderness National environmental groups politics in the roadless debate. By the wanted more and they convinced end of the 20th century the Forest Dombeck and President Bill Clinton Service had become the nation’s top to end road-building on 58.5 million road-building agency, with 380,000 acres of roadless lands with only minor miles of roads, nine times the 40,000 exceptions. More than 1.6 million miles of the U.S. Interstate Highway people commented on the rule, the System. The agency also had an $8 vast majority in favor. It was finalized billion road maintenance backlog. in March of 2001. After the U.S. House nearly cut All that really did was to put into off all Forest Service road funding, rule the status quo. Forest supervisors then Forest Chief Mike Dombeck rarely proposed projects in roadless instituted an 18-month moratorium areas in places like Spion Kop even on new roads in most roadless areas though they had commercial timber. in January, 1998. On the 100th In Idaho, three quarters of the timber anniversary of Gifford Pinchot’s first industry was already gone, says Joe day as a government employee—the Hinson, a former timber industry man who later became the first chief lobbyist who considers Spion Kop one of the Forest Service—Dombeck wrote of his favorite spots. a letter to agency employees outlining “I could never have in good con- his shift in policy. science pushed for building roads into “Values such as wilderness and that area,” Hinson says. roadless areas, clean water, protection But in Idaho and other western of rare species, old growth forests, states local leaders, loggers and rural naturalness—these are the reasons communities considered the outcome

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decided from the start. They thought they were being railroaded and they didn’t want to give up their options. They took their fights to court. The decisions were mixed and the Bush administration sought a resolution that would defuse the situation. In 2004, it sought to amend the rule to allow governors to petition the Forest Service for roadless management plans for their own states. Seven states submitted petitions and five requested full protection for their roadless areas. Only Idaho and Colorado offered dramatically different proposals. Then-Idaho Gov. Jim Risch announced his own roadless rule on Sept. 20, 2006, the same day that U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte threw out the Bush rule and reinstated The Idaho roadless rule also set in place a new standard that allows westerners to now become a part of a process they once demonized. the 2001 rule. Undaunted, the Bush mining and environmental com- million acres of roadless lands. That administration and Risch went forward munities, that the Idaho rule was as meant places like Spion Kop would with a wholly separate rulemaking. strong as or stronger than the Clinton remain as they are, and 3.2 million of Risch presented his plan to the rule. TU saw Risch’s offer as a new those acres would receive protections Roadless Area Conservation National standard for reviewing state roadless stronger even than the 2001 rule. Advisory Committee on Oct. 6, 2006 plans. When some environmentalists The Idaho roadless rule also set with environmentalists deeply skepti- balked at Risch’s characterization of in place a new standard that allows cal, since it had local government and his proposal, Wood noted that some westerners to now become a part of a timber industry support. The proposed of Risch’s designations were in fact process they once demonized. rule designated 250 roadless areas and stronger than the original rule. Risch “In the end you can make the argu- established five management themes saw in Wood and TU an organization ment that it’s stronger than the Clinton that guide road construction, timber with which he could work and a pact rule but it’s much more popular in the cutting and mineral development on all was forged. state,” Wood says. but 609,000 acres of the 9.3 million Together, working with the rest of acres of roadless lands in Idaho. the RACNAC and the Forest Service The proposal as written was unac- they rewrote the rule so it was accept- Court Battles ceptable to all of the environmental able to industry groups but also had the But not all environmentalists agreed. groups, including TU. But Risch pre- support of Trout Unlimited and the Earthjustice brought a lawsuit against sented an opening for compromise that Idaho Conservation League. The final the Forest Service on behalf of the RACNAC member Chris Wood, then Idaho rule, approved in 2008, further The Wilderness Society, the Greater TU’s chief operating officer and now reduced the lands that would be turned Yellowstone Coalition, the Natural the organization’s chief executive officer, back to general forest management to Resources Defense Council, the Sierra and a former advisor to Dombeck at the only 405,000 acres. Club and The Lands Council. Forest Service when the Clinton rule was The new plan narrowed the restric- These groups weren’t convinced written, instantly recognized. tions on logging and temporary road the special language negotiated in the Risch told the panel, made up of building to 442,000 acres of “com- Idaho rule would protect the areas as representatives of the timber, ranching, munity protection zones” in the 8.9 well as the 2001 rule.

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“If we can’t achieve conservation gains with Gov. Bill Ritter wrote his own plan people directly affected supporting them, for managing the 4.2 million acres they can’t be sustained over time.” of roadless forests there. That rule, like the Idaho rule, makes it easier to —Chris Wood log in fire prone roadless areas near communities. It also made it easier for the state’s coal industry and ski resorts to develop in specific roadless areas. In April, Ritter sent his final plan to the Obama administration for review. Sportsmen praised part of the revision that found another 400,000 acres of roadless lands in an updated inventory. And they liked how Ritter placed 6 percent of Colorado’s roadless lands in “upper tier” protected status. But TU and other groups said Ritter’s plan didn’t go far enough. It

Settlement talks over the Idaho are strongly committed to a protective rule broke down in March and the roadless rule that will protect these two sides could end up before a judge very important areas,” says Agriculture this summer. Undersecretary for forests and conser- When Laporte’s ruling was upheld vation Harris Sherman. by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Oral arguments were heard in the roadless rule was reinstated across March on the Brimmer ruling and the West Coast and in Montana and a decision is expected this summer. temporarily nationwide outside of Brimmer says the roadless rule made Alaska. There the Bush administration’s roadless lands “de facto wilderness” moratorium on roadless protection and only Congress could designate remains in place. wilderness so he ruled it invalid. But in 2008, U.S. District Judge The appeals court appeared skep- Clarence Brimmer, of Cheyenne, Wyo. tical of Brimmer’s main point, says ruled that the Clinton administration Earthjustice attorney Jim Angell. had overstepped its authority when it “There are significant differences wrote the rules. between wilderness area management That left two competing decisions in and management under the roadless different appellate districts. The Obama rule,” he says. administration appealed Brimmer’s If the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to the 10th Circuit Court of upholds the decision, that would Appeals in Denver, Colo. leave two competing rulings, which In late May, Agriculture Secretary might put the issue before the U.S. Tom Vilsack extended for another year Supreme Court. But if Brimmer is the moratorium on development in road- overridden, the Clinton rule would less areas outside of Idaho to allow him to be reinstated. review them on a case-by-case basis. Nowhere is this back and forth “The president and Secretary Vilsack being watched more than in Colorado.

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didn’t meet the test that grew out of the Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee have the Idaho rule, is best. The Wilderness Idaho rule negotiations: that any state had legislation in committee for years Society, which is among the most rule must be equal to or stronger than that would codify into law the 2001 dogmatic supporters of the 2001 rule, the 2001 rule. Roadless Area Conservation Rule. They is engaged in talks about future forest “We’re pleased the state listened to have a bipartisan list of co-sponsors in management in Idaho, Alaska and sportsmen on these issues and made both houses. Colorado. many improvements from the draft, But without support from Idaho and “If we can’t achieve conservation but the revised rule still needs some Alaska neither bill appears to have much gains with people directly affected sup- work if hunters and anglers are going chance of getting out of committee. porting them, they can’t be sustained to offer it their full support,” said Steve Cantwell has met with Risch to discuss over time,” Wood says. Kandell, director of TU’s Sportsmen’s roadless issues. TU’s success in Idaho and the court Conservation Project. “I know they have talked,” says victories give Dombeck hope that road- Cantwell staffer John Diamond. less areas like Spion Kop are protected “And I know there have been talks at for good. Sustaining Conservation the staff level but there is nothing to “The real important thing is these Gains announce.” wild places remain wild,” Dombeck Congress also could resolve the roadless Ultimately TU’s Wood says roadless says. “How we get there is a lot less debate. Washington U.S. Sen. Maria protection that has local buy-in, like important.”

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Colorado’s Alpine Triangle: Protecting a Standing in an alpine meadow near the tree line Backcountry in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, Treasure one cannot help but sense By Kirk Deeter the raw energy of history. There are, of course, the obvious impressions of natural history. Wind-scoured peaks loom above glades of aspen trees and fields of vibrant wildflowers. Crystalline streams cascade over granite and thread hard-twisted ribbons through valley floors. Vast elk herds migrate gracefully amidst the timber as raptors glide on thermal air currents overhead. It would be easy, from this perspective, to think that this is a region modern society simply forgot. And to the extent that much of this landscape exists exactly as it has for millions of years, that would be true. But a closer inspection reveals vestiges of another historic era, when this region produced many of the mineral riches that helped fuel America’s frontier economy. The gold and silver strikes of the late 1800s sprung boomtowns around commercial mines. Perched in cratered slopes 10,000 feet or higher above sea level, some were replete with mercantiles, toggeries, dance halls and saloons that served thousands of permanent residents. When the mines played out, many of these towns were ultimately abandoned and became ghosts

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And as such, the region is now marked with a uniquely historical aesthetic—both natural and human- made—that makes it one of the most alluring and imagination-inspiring backcountry experiences to be had in the lower 48. The nucleus of this area is a 186,000-acre expanse dubbed the Alpine Triangle, so-named by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which administers most of the public land there, because the territory is loosely contained in a shape formed by con- necting the three towns of Silverton, Ouray, and Lake City. Each year, the Alpine Triangle draws hundreds of thousands of recreational enthusiasts of varying interests—from anglers, to hik- ers and campers, to big game hunters, and even off-highway motorists who utilize a labyrinth of long-established gravel and 4X4 roads. TU now finds itself at the forefront of a collaborative initiative to preserve the Alpine Triangle as it is today. Specifically, it is engaged in protecting the already-established long-term hunting and fishing opportunities, cultural heritage sites and motorized use of the Alpine Triangle by estab- lishing a National Conservation Area there—a Congressionally-designated area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. If the effort is successful, the Alpine Triangle would, in effect, remain the wild place it is today for future generations, and be protected from the mining interests that may seek to resume extraction in the region. MARK LANCE

What’s at stake? cutthroat trout, browns and rainbows. Colorado, and their benefits are felt The Alpine Triangle offers some of the The headwaters of two other important hundreds of miles downstream in most pristine backcountry trout fishing rivers—the Rio Grande and the San every direction. anywhere in the continental United Juan—start in valleys in the vicinity “If you start at the source, and States. The headwaters of three of of the Triangle. protect the rivers where they begin, Colorado’s most notable trout rivers— And as a result of time washing away we know that the benefits are realized the Animas, the Lake Fork of the the visible effects of the mines, plus many miles downstream,” says Ty Gunnison, and the Uncompahgre— a series of TU-led clean-up efforts, Churchwell, a backcountry coordinator originate from within the region, some of the streams in the Alpine for Trout Unlimited based in Durango, as do a myriad of streams that hold Triangle are now also among the most Colo., who is spearheading the Alpine resident populations of Colorado River productive backcountry fisheries in Triangle initiative. “We’ve already seen

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The Alpine Triangle offers some of the most pristine backcountry trout fishing anywhere in the continental United States.

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With the prices of gold and silver averaging double-digit annual growth over the past decade…mining companies may explore the feasibility of renewing operations [in the Triangle].

that mine cleanup in the Silverton area, specifically, has brought a river [the Animas] that was thought dead 50 years ago back to life, and it’s now one of the best trout rivers in Colorado.” With nominal effort (motorized or on foot), the fly angler can venture into the Alpine Triangle and find himself or herself fishing a stream or lake, often in complete solitude, where wild fish eagerly chase dry flies the Alpine Triangle rests, is over 96 with gusto throughout the summer. percent publicly owned, with over 80 For hunters and wildlife watchers, the percent already designated wilderness Alpine Triangle is home to some of the or wilderness study area. most prolific high country big game “There are a lot of interests who collec- populations in the country, including tively realize that the recreational value of elk, bighorn sheep, mountain lions this one region far outweighs any mining and black bears. The lynx has also been value that could be revisited here,” says successfully reintroduced there. Chris Hunt, communications director for Trout Unlimited’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. “TU finds itself What’s the threat? in the ideal position to coordinate the Unfortunately, some of the interests effort it will take to preserve the land that shaped the identity of the region— in a way that best serves the renewable, specifically, the hard rock mining tourism-based economy that now thrives industry—could potentially threaten here. We have the standing in the com- the Alpine Triangle and its fish and munity, based on our track record, to wildlife once again. With the prices of make this happen, and in many ways, gold and silver averaging double-digit we feel an obligation to do so.” annual growth over the past decade, In this case, that obligation involves and with mining technologies improved coordinating the support of hunters, as to the point where minerals can be well as ORV groups. The ORV interests extracted from areas that had recently may seem strange bedfellows in light been considered non-viable, mining of the national conflicts over keeping companies may explore the feasibility ORV users on established trails where of renewing operations there. they cannot damage riparian habitat. Add to that the fact that much of Yet Churchwell points out that this area the area consists of public lands, which has so many established off-road assets, diminishes tax-base revenue potential, it is perhaps an ideal locale to work in making some cautious in their support synergy with the ORV users. of the initiative. Hinsdale County, “There is already one of the best

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mountains here, and a long tradition of motorized recreation throughout the area, from jeep tours, to individuals like hunters using four-wheelers,” says Churchwell. “And what this initiative does is honor those historical uses. In fact, we share a common objective, and can benefit by working with other outdoor enthusiasts.”

What’s the Benefit? While the restrictions associated with a National Conservation Area vary between conservation areas, generally, limitations are placed on the leasing or sale of lands under mining laws. Were the Alpine Triangle to earn NCA designation, the truth is, the changes that take place would be subtle. NCA status would likely bring additional funding But the NCA suggestion isn’t music to the managing agency, a project area to the ears of everyone in the region, manager, better signage, better services particularly the “old guard” who still and increased patrols and enforcement hold out hope for a resurgence in the to ensure all current users of the area mining industry, however minimal can continue to enjoy it for generations that would be. In April, the San Juan to come. Funding for trail maintenance County Commission (Silverton is and a linked ORV trail from the Lake the county seat) voted 2-1 to oppose Fork to Henson Creek could also be any formal federal land management recommended. designation for the Triangle. Spurred “I don’t know that changing the by a leaked federal memo that named official designation will actually increase the Triangle among a host of other use by the public, because it’s already high-value landscapes across the country a popular destination,” says Richard with potential for national monument Speegle, a retired outdoor recreation or even national park status, a small, but planner for the U.S. Forest Service, vocal minority successfully lobbied the who now supports the TU initiative. “If commission to take this stance. you imagine Rocky Mountain National “I think San Juan County’s resolution Park…this area is much like that, with was premature, and judging by the folks all the fishing and the big game viewing at the commission’s last meeting, so do here, only it doesn’t have a paved highway most of the county’s constituents,” Hunt running throughout it.” says. “The notion that Washington is As such, Speegle contends that a NCA pulling strings out here to lock people designation for the Alpine Triangle would out, and prohibit traditional uses is just likely give it the planning and budgeting plain wrong. First, a national conser- prominence it already deserves. vation area wouldn’t lock anybody out “Designated monuments and con- or impact any existing uses, including servation areas in the BLM lands are existing and valid mining claims. typically funded off the top of the Forest Second, TU has never taken march- Service budget,” says Speegle. “Working ing orders from D.C. Like many local in this area as I did, we often found residents, we are embracing the idea of ourselves scrapping for funding. This is protecting the Triangle to cement in a budget issue as much as anything.” place a viable tourism-based economy MARK LANCE BY PHOTOS

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that isn’t as subject to the booms and operated a hunting outfitting business nitely need to protect that,” says Murphy. busts that come with mining.” as well, and clearly understands that the “From the hunting-outfitter perspective, Dan Murphy operates a ranch market- natural beauty of the region is why people we already made the decision that it isn’t ing business from Lake City in Hinsdale choose to visit or live there. worth killing everything to book a hotel County; his business covers a region from “In all my travels, I have yet to find room or sell a six-pack of beer.” Wyoming to New Mexico and throughout anything that can touch the Lake City While Murphy says he believes TU’s Colorado. He grew up in the area and area for its natural appeal and we defi- goal for the Alpine Triangle is noble, “From the hunting-outfitter perspective, we already made the decision that it isn’t worth killing everything to book a hotel room or sell a six-pack of beer.” —Dan Murphy, business owner

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Fishing TU’s Home Waters: he encourages a cautious approach to ensure that all stakeholders’ interests are factored into the decisions that Colorado’s Lake Fork are made. He has supported TU in making that happen. “It’s all about finding the right of the Gunnison balance, and avoiding decisions that BY TONY TARASEWICZ have adverse long-term effects,” says he Lake Fork of the Gunnison River (The Lake Fork) drains about 334 square Murphy. miles of the northern San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. Although To that end, no water legislation T it’s often overlooked because of better-known neighboring rivers, such as the is being proposed within this grass- Gunnison into which it drains to the north and the Rio Grande just to the south, the Lake Fork is nonetheless an impressive body of water. You would be hard pressed to find roots effort. The plan impacts only greater fly fishing diversity in 54 miles of mountain river anywhere else in the Rockies. public land. This beautiful, riffled river has its beginning on the side of Handies Peak, one of Bernie Krystyniak, a TU member the five 14,000 foot peaks in the area. Originating at 12,800 feet in a spectacular from Lake City who has been active glacial valley known as American Basin, it forms a lake 18 miles downstream (Lake San in building grassroots support for the Cristobal) and runs through the town of Lake City, the only town in Hinsdale County. Alpine Triangle effort among local The Lake Fork has a relatively short, 54-mile run that ends in the Blue Mesa Reservoir, hunters, anglers and recreational which was created by the damming of the Gunnison River in the 1960s. users, says that one of the key elements From meandering willow-filled park areas to canyons with deep-plunge pools, the to success will be communications. Lake Fork offers easy and challenging fishing all in one beautiful body of water. And while you would think that a stretch of river like the Lake Fork would be crowded, on “The challenge will be commu- the contrary it is busy only from the middle of June until the beginning of September. nicating to local citizens to convert Otherwise most times of the year an angler can find an open parking spot next to the skepticism, where it exists, into river, which runs 15 miles along Highway 149 from Lake City to Blue Mesa Reservoir support. We need to get the right and then adjacent to a good dirt road for another six miles. Portions of the river messages out there as well as the facts that are well beyond any hint of civilization can also be accessed on foot. One good as to the impacts of this effort on local detailed source for access descriptions is Fly Fishing Map and Guide for the Gunnison citizens,” says Krystyniak, who has and Lake Fork River by Michael D. Shook. fished in the Alpine Triangle since The fishing season typically runs from mid-March to mid-October, however it’s pos- the mid 1970s. sible to find isolated, open, fishable water earlier and later depending on a particular year’s weather patterns. As with most of the San Juan Mountains, spring runoff on the Churchwell agrees and says the Lake Fork peaks in June, with July’s flows being less than half of that. effort will involve a continuous and The Lake Fork’s fish species cover the Rocky Mountains’ trout palette and include open public forum to assure that cutthroat, brook, rainbow and brown trout. The fish range from 10 to 20 inches everyone’s interests and needs will and some even larger depending on location. And there are the occasional lake be considered, especially those of the trout washed over the spillway from Lake San Cristobal. During most late seasons local communities. (September and October) Blue Mesa provides a good showing of kokanee salmon “Trout Unlimited fully believes running upstream past the town of Lake City. that a collaborative, grassroots effort Early season starts with high-stick nymphing and enough weight to fish through deep pockets where you’re assured of encountering plenty of snags on the willows is the most appropriate manner of deposited by resident beavers. The smorgasbord selection of natural bugs present in addressing the future needs of this the Lake Fork affords the angler great latitude in nymph choices. Basic patterns used special place,” says Churchwell. “After locally are light and dark stoneflies, copper johns in red, chartreuse and olive, gold all, these lands belong to all the people ribbed hare’s ears, bead head prince nymphs and pheasant tails, as well as caddis of the United States and this effort is in almost any variation you can imagine. This early in the season, when the fish are about embracing what is important hungry, they tend to follow the “feed first look later” approach. to local citizens while protecting Mid season, post-runoff until the end of August, the dry-fly season starts with a habitat, economic values and our good showing of stoneflies as well as pale morning duns, green drakes and the expected sporting heritage. In the end, the morning and evening caddis hatches. Appropriate terrestrials such as hoppers, beetles and ants should never be overlooked when they are present on the banks and in the people on the ground will determine trees. Here again the fish are rarely picky and a 5X leader will never spook them. how this amazing place is managed A personal favorite time of the year is fall—September and October and if lucky, and protected.” part of November. The browns and kokanee are most active and all are feeding madly in anticipation of the long winter. The blue winged olives, caddis and yellow sally stoneflies For more information on the Alpine are always dependable, while streamers, egg patterns and other red attractors tend to Triangle, see alpinetriangle.com. induce strikes from salmon moving up river. Anglers should avoid the spawners so that they can tend to business, but all others are fair game.

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The Lake Fork’s fish species cover the Rocky Mountains’ trout palette and include cutthroat, brook, rainbow and brown trout. PHOTOS BY MARK LANCE BY PHOTOS

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TU’s Next Generation College Students See First-Hand What’s at Stake for Lahontan Cutthroats College S t u d e n t s See ColdFirst-Hand pizza and warm beer are a nearly-universal part of the rite of passage known as college. And while some students spent last summer What’s living at Stake up to the for antics of trashed front lawns and John Belushi-like behavior,Lahontan 10 students from California Polytechnic, Humboldt State, SacramentoCutthroats State, the University of California-Davis and Sierra College trekked in the footsteps of TU Northern California Field Organizer Dave Lass to Meiss Meadows and the headwaters of Lake Tahoe to learn more about the Lahontan cutthroat, one of the rarest species of trout in the continental United States.

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The only trout native to the streams and lakes in the Lake Tahoe region of eastern California, Lahontans occupy only 10 percent of their native range in streams, and less than 1 percent in lakes. Urban development, mining, livestock grazing, water diversions, logging, and competition with non-native trout have all contributed to the present state of fish, now classified as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Today, anglers have the opportunity to fish for these large cutthroats because of the pristine habitat of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the National Forest System, which made it possible for wildlife officials to remove non-native fish and reintroduce Lahontans into the Upper Truckee River watershed. Lass and the students saw first-hand how remote and wild this habitat is— hiking over three miles to access streams protected—tenuously, at present—from threats like sedimentation, off-highway vehicle use and mining. the Meiss Meadows trip what was at While the college students hooked stake for the Lake Tahoe area. “After some nice fish during the tour, Lass watching native Lahontan cutthroat pointed out the protections still lack- trout eagerly take my flies, and seeing ing for many of the region’s streams. the waters of the Upper Truckee River Roadless designation within the flowing toward Lake Tahoe in the national forest protects the Lake Tahoe distance, I can think of no place more headwaters from new roads, which deserving of permanent protection than means clean, clear water flows into the Meiss Meadows,” she says. “I’m so glad lake from the Upper Truckee River. TU is working to do just that.” But even roadless areas, as anglers and And although protecting the Lake hunters have seen, don’t guarantee pro- Tahoe headwaters is a big priority, tection from potential ORV damage, conservationists are eyeing wilderness or energy and mining development. designations for even more of the The end goal for Lass and California’s Sierra Nevada’s mountain streams, TU staff is a wilderness designation for with the potential to reintroduce native places this important. Lahontans elsewhere within their “We’re talking about the headwaters historical range, and replicate the con- to world famous Lake Tahoe, a place servation success of the Tahoe region. known for its incredibly clean and clear Having future agricultural producers, waters. This is an iconic place, high in forestry officials, key political players fish and game values with a huge native and tourism employees as supporters trout connection. We need to be proac- will make those conservation efforts tive and protect it,” says Lass. much easier. That message isn’t lost on the And that’s exactly what TU’s college students. outreach is trying to accomplish: to Savannah Remington, a hospitality engage young people in conservation and tourism major at California State issues at a time when they’re forming University in Sacramento, realized after Continued on page 48

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“After watching native Lahontan cutthroat trout eagerly take my flies, and seeing the waters of the Upper Truckee River flowing toward Lake Tahoe in the distance, I can think of no place more deserving of permanent protection than Meiss Meadows.” —Savannah Remington

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[By Bill Stieger] waded out on the Kinnickinnic last evening and hooked six browns, and the world suddenly seemed anew. I was disappointed before I’d made the first cast. The river was high and cloudy, still swollen with snowmelt. I knew my fishing chances were slim. No trout rose to the midges hatching off the water’s surface. Dry fly fishing achieved noI results. So, I attached some shot to the leader and scraped a gold-ribbed hare’s ear off the graveled river bottom. And, like magic, the trout materialized. It almost seemed as if the fish had been waiting for me through the dark months of winter. Waiting? A psychologist would call my assessment “projection.” Who cares for psychology? I call it poetics. I remember my life before taking to the fly rod as one long winter. Not that my life was all that rotten. But the scuffling life of a jazz drummer in Minneapolis didn’t lend itself to the joys of countryside, rivers or trout. And to live in that world, as it is in every quotidian life, is to be caught in it. Trapped. Frustrated. Something was missing. I didn’t know it at the time, but what was missing was rivers. I remember my first day on the Kinnickinnic as the day a light switched on in my heart. Not that I knew what I was doing. I had no idea about how to fish with flies, though I had read Sheridan Anderson’s Curtis Creek Manifesto. I didn’t even remember the names of the flies the guy at the fly shop had sold me. I fished the one that looked like a tiny shaving brush. No matter. I felt anew in a world of moving water, breezes and the possibility of trout. I felt like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, stepping out of a storm-tossed house into a world of color. I caught no fish that first day but I saw another fisherman land a good sized brown, backlit in the evening sunset, as if in a painting. Pardon the pun, but I was hooked. What I didn’t know—of course, at that time I knew next to nothing about trout streams—was that the “Kinni” had in previous years become a put-and-take river that grew too warm in summer to support wild trout. Cow Emerging from the Depths crap, fertilizer and warm water runoff from the city of River Falls had rendered the river essentially a murky sewer. Fortunately for me, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Trout Unlimited and later the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust, had labored continuously to restore habitat, curb the dumping of fertilizer and limit the thermal runoff. Today, the Kinni holds as many as 5,000 wild browns per mile, and not one planted fish. On this spring evening I had only fished for about an hour, but that hour was enough to restore me to a modicum of sanity. On the walk up from the river valley I felt a light- ness in my step. I felt my body come alive; spring had finally arrived to inhabit my bones after a particularly difficult winter, perhaps the worst winter I’d ever had.

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“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” — John Buchan PHOTOS BY JEFF ERICKSON BY PHOTOS

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I’ll try not to make violin music from it. But the difficulties this winter had much to do with a lengthy period of unemployment and the accompany- ing shortage of funds for even the most basic necessities. My telephone was turned off a couple of times. And I made more than one trip to a food shelf. Hunger easily trumps pride. Don’t get me wrong; I knew my situation, even at its worst, was better than many people’s. I wasn’t homeless. Friends and relatives did what they could. And I had had some work from my freelance writing. The worst of it was what was happening to my mind and with my emotions, particularly those of fear, anger and self-inflicted shame. I even spoke to a counselor a few times, which was a mistake. The counselor told me my situation was terrible. Awful. She understood why I was depressed. Wonderful. I quit the sliding-fee-scale therapy, figuring I already felt rotten. I didn’t need anyone telling me that it was “okay” to feel rotten. I didn’t need to have my feelings understood or vali- dated. I knew how I felt. Thing was, I didn’t want to feel how I felt. I wanted KRLT LEVY, BURT to feel better. That’s one of the great myths of 50-years-old, divorced and broke. What’ll and beauty of fly fishing. They made a psychology: that if you let yourself feel I do if they turn off the electricity? movie about it in the 90s, so I’ll skip rotten enough, you’ll feel better. I didn’t However, two things kept me the exaltation of fishing, except to say need anyone’s permission to feel rotten. anchored. One was my son. No matter that, for me, fly fishing does indeed Imagine your boat springing a leak and how bad the situation, I had a son I wash away the troubles one often faces the fellow you’re rowing just sits on his needed to take care of. I couldn’t afford in everyday life. prat and says, “Yup. It’s sinking. But to run from the situation or let myself And things are getting better. I it’s OK that it’s sinking. You have my get into drinking, nihilism, or worse. have more freelance work. The days permission to let it sink.” I had to show up for him every day. I are growing in length. And baseball A guy like that deserves to drown. had to act positive. And I did. season is soon to begin. I’ve also met I didn’t need to “check in”; I needed But the other reason lay in remem- a terrific woman. As far as dreams a check. bering the joys of standing in a river, of wealth go, I’m still buying lottery And when you’re in a situation like flicking a fly line, feeling the surprise tickets. But whether I win the lottery the aforementioned, winter doesn’t of that sudden grab and pull, the silvery or don’t, I plan to stick around for the help things along. There’s the ordeal flash as a trout leaps into the air, trying rest of the show. of Christmas, the nearly perpetual to throw the hook. I figured that if I An English writer named John absence of light, the isolation of being could make it to spring, things would Buchan wrote something about the sport housebound. Winter is a wonderful get better. And I did. that I’ll never forget. He wrote, “The season for contemplation, reflection and I’ll admit that, on the surface, fishing charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of renewal. But it’s not the peppiest time of and rivers are small things. And it’s not what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual year when the last thing you want to do is my purpose here to go into a lengthy series of occasions for hope.” reflect and contemplate about how you’re screed about the meaning, symbolism I couldn’t agree more.

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TU’s Next Generation Even though they’ll come home to the same warm beer Continued from page 42 and cold pizza environment at school, they return with an their opinions of the world around experience they’ll remember their entire lives, influencing them. That’s why college trips and alternative spring breaks have sprung up how they think about fisheries forever. on campuses across the country, all with strong ties to native trout restoration. Lass himself has come full circle To help further organize these in his outreach work. While attend- engaged college students, TU Director ing Colorado State University, he was of Youth Education Franklin Tate wants inspired by a TU staffer’s appearance to make it easier for college students during an American Fisheries Society and faculty to organize collegiate TU meeting. In his work today, he’s rep- sub-chapters, inspired by a student- licating the success of that outreach, run model at Michigan’s Ferris State which motivated him to join TU and University—mentored by the local pursue a post-college internship with Pine River Area Chapter—which four TU’s California Water Project, which students launched in 2007. then lead to his role with TU today. Efforts like these, combined with Lass hopes he is helping to inspire partnerships with state conservation a future TU field organizer, forestry corps and companies like Sage, help official or active volunteer among these serve an age demographic frequently students. And even though they’ll come left in “a dead zone” as Lass calls it—too home to the same warm beer and cold old for Trout in the Classroom or youth pizza environment at school, they return camps, but too young to fit in at a TU with an experience they’ll remember chapter meeting. their entire lives, influencing how they think about fisheries forever. visit tu.org/collegeconnections. To organize campus outreach or an To learn more about grassroots TU alternative spring break, email Dave Lahontan cutthroat restoration in Lass at [email protected]______or Franklin Tate Utah, see page 16. To find out how at [email protected]. to start up a collegiate sub-chapter, —HB PHOTOS BY DAVE LASS DAVE BY PHOTOS

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ActionlineNews from the Field

California & Nevada The Feather River and Sagebrush Chapters team up to fund and implement a Little Truckee River project. 53

Colorado A new Eagle Valley Chapter forms to protect Colorado’s watersheds. 53

Georgia & North Carolina Fly-tying competition benefits TU camps. 53

Massachusetts Land acquisition results in over 800 acres of connected habitat for sea-run brookies. 51

Michigan Fly Tie-a-Thon benefits an angling camp for cancer survivors. 53

Minnesota Twin Cities Chapter harnesses their restoration resources closer to home. 50

Pennsylvania Preventative work stems a mine drainage threat on Kettle Creek. 51 The Cumberland Valley Chapter secures over 11 acres of land on the Letort for fishing and restoration. 52

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Grassroots Spotlight On-the-ground chapter success stories 50th Anniversary Anniversary National Conservation National Awards

A Home Waters of Their Own MINNESOTA

A few years ago, the second-largest TU of the natural habitat for this Driftless chapter in the country essentially had Area stream was prairie savanna—and no home waters. While the Twin Cities re-channeling and restoring a narrower Chapter had the momentum and the channel. This summer, the chapter plans organizational power to make an impact, another 6,000 feet of similar restoration they were often forced to cross the bor- work for this wild brown trout fishery. der into Wisconsin for stream volunteer Working their way downstream, the work and even for fishing. But all that chapter’s goal is to restore Hay Creek’s changed in 2007, when then-president entire 15-miles and build support from Steve Carlton was inspired to start a and momentum with landowners along Minnesota Legacy Amendment, a taxpayer- project close to home that would give the the way. And thus far, the landowners fund dedicated to supporting environmen- chapter great fishing and a cleaner, more have been very supportive—allowing vol- tal restoration and the arts in Minnesota for vibrant stream. unteers to camp on their property during the next 25 years. Now that they’ve got the Thus, in 2008, the chapter broke days-long volunteer trips and agreeing to volunteers, the funding and a home waters ground on 3,000 feet of restoration help control bank erosion in the future. to focus on, chapter members are thrilled work on Hay Creek, a limestone tribu- Although Hay Creek’s heavy siltation to have a big-picture, watershed-scale proj- tary of the Mississippi River south of and broken-down banks have wreaked ect. The benefits are already clear—2007 Minneapolis-Saint Paul near Red Wing, havoc on the fishery, Carlton looks for- and 2008 surveys show significantly higher Minn. Last summer, the chapter restored ward to the improved fishing. “With some trout populations than before. And it’ll only another 2,200 feet of habitat, recruiting rehab, this could be an absolute diamond get better. “We have the opportunity to 40 volunteers to build and install sky- of a trout stream,” says Carlton. do something huge, something meaningful hooks and LUNKER structures and plant And after years of fundraising and that will last,” says project coordinator Josh native grasses. The heavy lifting involved grant writing for such work, the chapter Nelson. “And we’ve got the volunteers to invasive tree removal—since the majority received a huge funding boost with 2008’s make it happen.”

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ConservationDodging a Mine Awards Drainage Bullet

PENNSYLVANIA

Last January, TU and the Kettle Creek Watershed Association installed an underground water collection system in an abandoned mine, controlling water-collection in the mine and thereby preventing the release of millions of gallons of acid mine drainage into Kettle Creek and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The Bitumen, Pa. mine has been abandoned for almost 100 years, but water collecting in the col- lapsed entries had the potential of blow- ing out and spewing polluted water into Kettle Creek. Usually, hazards like this go undetected until it’s too late, which makes the project all the more rewarding. “This project goes a long way toward preventing a potentially serious environmental disaster,” A Sanctuary for but after spawning they spend winter in says Amy Wolfe, director of TU’s eastern shallow ocean areas like bays and estuaries. abandoned mine program. The project Red Brook Salters The acquired area, known as Century Bog, was funded by Pennsylvania’s Growing MASSACHUSETTS abuts the Red Brook Wildlife Management Greener Grant Program, the Richard King Area and the Lyman Reserve—which Trout Mellon Foundation and the Foundation for In January, the Massachusetts Division of Unlimited helped create in 1980s. For salt- Pennsylvania Watersheds. TU and the water- Fisheries and Wildlife (known as MassWildlife) ers and other fish, the additional acquired shed association will continue to monitor acquired 245 acres of land adjacent to Red land means 883 acres of streamside land mine pool conditions and the new drainage Brook in Wareham and Plymouth, Mass., is now protected, from Red Brook’s head- system for six months to make sure the home to a dwindling population of sea-run waters to the Buttermilk Bay. Century polluted water isn’t draining into the water- brook trout known as salters. Like native Bog was owned by cranberry grower A.D. shed. TU has been working on abandoned brook trout, salters live in coldwater streams, Makepeace, which has worked with TU’s mine cleanup in the area since 1998. Southeastern Massachusetts Chapter and the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Council on restoration projects such as the removal of culverts. TU is working with the U.S. Geological Survey and MassWildlife to survey the native salters, and has been a leader in the restoration work on Red Brook for decades, removing dams, planting trees and restoring streambanks. Warren Winders, the Red Brook coordinator for the Southeastern Massachusetts Chapter, credits MassWildlife fisheries biologist Steve Hurley as “the driving force” behind the acquisition. “Our belief has always been that the restoration of Red Brook would not be complete until the problems caused by the bogs had been mitigated,” he says. “This is an astounding and inspiring vote of confidence by the state of Massachusetts and A.D. Makepeace.”

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Across the country, TU chapters sponsor countless community events to bring our conservation message to a broader audience. Here are a few highlights: Fly Tying 6,000 Flies for a Competition Good Cause

GEORGIA & NORTH CAROLINA MICHIGAN

Last February, the Chattahoochee/ Michigan’s Kalamazoo Valley Chapter and Nantahala Chapter wrapped up its second Indiana’s Saint Joseph River Valley Fly annual Southern Appalachian Fly Tying con- Fishers wrapped up their fourth annual Tie- test, which received entries from all corners a-Thon in April, gathering over 6,000 flies of the country, and even included interna- to benefit KVCTU’s youth camp and Ohio’s tional entries from Scandinavia. Proceeds Reel and Heal angling camp for cancer sur- from the event benefit the chapter’s out- New Chapter vivors. The joint TU and Federation of Fly reach efforts, including sending two kids to Fishers project gathers flies from tiers, who TU trout camps every summer. The winning Created commit to tie 100 flies of one pattern. Once fly was a Ginger Quill, tied by Louis Kasamis COLORADO collected, the group doesn’t sell the flies, of New City, N.Y. Find out about next year’s but provides them to the camps, thereby contest at ngatu692.com. Earlier this year, Colorado welcomed a sparing those involved in these projects new chapter to its ranks. The Eagle Valley the expense of buying flies. With this year’s Chapter was formed to protect, recon- donations, the groups have supplied over nect, restore and sustain the Gore Creek, 20,000 flies to angling outreach efforts. Eagle River and Colorado River watersheds, Next year’s flies will benefit Project Healing among others. To find out more or to get Waters. To participate in the 2011 Tie-a- involved, visit eaglevalleytu.org. Thon, visit sjrvff.com.

Chapters Helping Chapters

CALIFORNIA & NEVADA

California’s Feather River Chapter is set to conduct stream surveys in Perazzo and Cold Stream Canyons in the Little Truckee River and the Perazzo Meadows area in Sierra County this summer, thanks to a grant from Nevada’s Sagebrush Chapter. The survey data will help inform future restoration work in the watershed, including reintroduction of native Lahontan cutthroats, a first in the Little Truckee River watershed. To learn more about the Sagebrush Chapter’s grant program, visit sagebrushtu.org.

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Last Chance for 2010 National Awards Nominations Nominate your favorite volunteers, projects and partners for TU’s annual meeting Save the Date for the awards by Monday, August 2. Visit tu.org/tacklebox to fill out a nomination form. Wild Trout Symposium Come see who the big winners are, and join hundreds of your TU compatriots to tour Hobnob with conservationists and restoration projects on Nash Stream and the Pemigewassett River at TU’s annual meet- anglers about wild trout manage- ing September15-19 in Waterville Valley, N.H. Register today at tumembership.org. ment and restoration at the Wild Trout Symposium this September in West Yellowstone, Mont. Held every three Free Elm Trees for TU Restoration Projects years since 1974, this TU-co-sponsored event offers a unique forum for pro- Longtime TU member John Hansel and ELM Research Institute are now offering free fessionals and volunteers to share elm trees for TU chapter restoration projects. Elm trees are excellent for riparian the latest science, technology and and streambank restoration, as they are one of the fastest-growing species for wet restoration philosophies. The topics areas. The trees are shipped in lots of 25 and can be planted year-round. TUers this year will include climate change, are only responsible for shipping costs. To request your free elm trees, email a resource extraction and genetics. one-paragraph summary of your restoration project to [email protected].______Register for the September 27-30 event at wildtroutsymposium.com.

A Little Help from Your Friends Do your chapter meetings go on for what seems like an eternity? Did you nearly drown trying to set up a Trout in the Classroom fish tank last year? Does the thought of organizing a dam removal give you a stress headache? TU volunteers don’t have to learn everything by trial and error. Take advantage of our new mentor program, where we’ll get you in touch with a veteran volunteer leader—the type who could plant a tree blindfolded— who can help with chapter issues, from budgeting and hiring contractors to youth camps and stream cleanups. If you’re a new leader looking for advice or guidance, please check out the list of TU mentors, found at tu.org/ ______tacklebox. If you would like to serve as a mentor to other volunteer leaders, contact [email protected].

Frequently Asked Questions about TU’s calendar Insurance Coverage September 15-19 To clarify TU’s general liability policy, we’ve developed a frequently asked questions TU Annual Meeting in Waterville page online to help chapters and councils incorporate the concept of risk management Valley, N.H. into planning efforts. Because every situation is different, chapters and councils are September 27-30 still encouraged to contact volunteer operations staff with questions regarding insur- Wild Trout Symposium in West ance or liability issues. You can find the FAQs at tu.org/tacklebox, under risk manage- Yellowstone, Mont. ment. Contact Andy Snyder at [email protected] with other specific questions.

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Henry Koltz Brookfield, Wisconsin Just a few years ago, TU’s Southeast says Koltz. “Together with our neigh- Wisconsin Chapter had reached a boring Ocooch Creeks Chapter, volun- less active point in its 40-year his- teers sought out and applied for grants tory. Then along came Henry Koltz, from creative new funding sources that an avid fly angler, conservationist would support our ambitious goals to and stream steward with a contagious restore a one-mile stretch of this tribu- enthusiasm. Koltz, along with other tary to the Kickapoo River.” leaders, prioritized reviving members’ In one such quest for creative fund- interest, improving communications, ing, chapter volunteers even led a and attracting new and diverse sources successful online voting campaign to of support. It doesn’t hurt that Koltz win the nationwide Greater Outdoors serves mouth-watering brats at chap- Project contest sponsored by Redwood ter workdays. Creek Wines of California. The effort “Henry always carves out time at paid off with a first-place, $50,000 chapter events for good food, tall tales award to support further restoration and of course, fishing,” says Todd at Camp Creek to install nearly 100 Durian, vice president of the Southeast LUNKER structures, stabilize eroded Wisconsin Chapter. “He also organizes streambanks and reconnect the creek meaningful gatherings, with its original flood- clearly communicat- plain. It’s this type ing with members, of on-the-ground partners and even work that earned vendors about the the chapter a Gold event’s purpose and Trout Award at what it means to TU TU’s annual meet- and its mission.” ing last year. Adds Koltz, “I tell With an average members that ‘there’s no better way to of 10 workdays scheduled each year Favorite Fly: know where a good fishing hole is than and regular email blasts reaching more Knitter’s X-Caddis when you’ve built it.’ That usually gets than 500 people, Koltz shows no signs them there and then I try and make it of slowing down in spite of growing Favorite Place to Fish: worthwhile.” volunteer duties that add to his full The West Fork of the It’s an approach that transformed workload as a litigation attorney— Kickapoo this once-stagnant chapter into an arbitrator for the Better Business a vibrant group—regularly attract- Bureau—a husband to his wife Amy, who is often by his side on workdays, Most Memorable Fish: ing between 35 and 60 people to its monthly workdays—that is able to and a father to two young children. Largemouth bass caught mobilize people to tackle big projects “It’s a juggling act,” says Koltz. with my father on our first and achieve significant conservation “But seeing 55 people show up on a “bass” trip in northern results. For Koltz, the Camp Creek 15-degree winter day to build struc- Wisconsin. Restoration Project specifically comes tures or stand in a river removing to mind. invasive plants we can’t get to when the “Restoring Camp Creek is just one ice melts makes it all worth it.” great example of what an engaged, pas- —Sara Kaplaniak sionate membership can accomplish,”

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Art of Angling [ By Dave Whitlock]

Trout Prof i les: Atlantic Sa lmon Salmo salar

SALMO SALAR, THE NAME ALONE HAS me they are the perfect fish in form, two forms—sea run and landlocked. a poetic beauty, even for those who have size, beauty, strength, elegance and I’ll discuss the landlocked salmon in never seen one. To those of us who have lifestyle. Every inch of their beautiful the next issue. come eye-to-eye with or hooked one of form, from their bullet-shaped nose to Sea-run Atlantic salmon have a these splendid fish on a fly, the name their perfect laminar-flow body pro- similar life cycle to Pacific salmon and wells up some deep emotions. The wild portions to their broad, powerful tails steelhead but unlike Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon, often called the king allows them to explosively accelerate they do not die after spawning. When of fish, is one magnificent creature. and leap to heart-stopping heights. mature salmon enter their pristine The opportunities I’ve had to watch Atlantic salmon are anadromous fish home rivers to spawn, they are sheathed them rocketing up and over waterfalls with a home range in the north Atlantic in sterling silver, packed solid with deep, or torpedoing below the surface of a from the northeastern United States reddish-orange muscle and are super- lovely stream, rising to one of my flies, to Canada and then eastward across charged with the ocean’s vitality. They or recreating them on canvas are among the Atlantic to Iceland, the British enter with the tides in several groups the most vivid memories of my life. To Isles, Europe and Russia. There are from April to July, each group stimu-

Because of their elegant form, speed, enduring stamina and amazing leaping ability, Atlantic salmon are often called the king of game fish. Tempting one to rise to a fly can be the ultimate cold-water angling experience.

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lated by the river level of their home waters. Their journey takes them miles upstream through long pools, runs, riffles, rapids and waterfalls, where they pause now and then for minutes, hours or sometimes days before continuing to the tributaries where they were born. By October or November they pair, mate and deposit their eggs in the protective gravels of their natal streams. Each day they are in the river, their colors and spots change to resemble their close-kin, the brown trout—Salmo trutta. After spawning, the mature salmon are half-starved, lean and leaden-colored from their months of fasting and spawning. Now called kelts, they remain nearly dormant until early spring thaw when rising runoff from snow and rains begin to sweep them Atlantic salmon do not feed after they enter freshwater rivers to spawn, but will rise to a tempting back to the Atlantic, triggering their assortment of flies skillfully presented and fished. digestive systems to turn on. Hordes of spring-spawning smelt, running spawning cycle. The largest salmon what you have in your fly box of shapes, up the river, provide them their first are most often repeat spawners but it’s sizes, colors and actions. From parr to replenishing meals in months. Soon estimated that only about 10 percent the adults you cast over, salmon are afterward, for those that make it back of Atlantic salmon survive their first predators of insects, fishes, squid, crabs, to tide water, the sea’s richness begins to run and return to the ocean to make a shrimp, eels, etc. It’s up to the angler to reverse the degenerative effects of their second run. And very, very few survive trigger the dormant feeding instinct long enough for a third run. to get them to capture an object that Salmo salar are seldom taken for sport is moving through their space. This in salt water and are mainly fished for scenario is so infectious that one can as they progress upstream before they easily devote an entire day trying to raise spawn. To my knowledge, all U.S. one particular salmon–or a lifetime and Atlantic salmon rivers are now closed to small fortune trying to capture just a few fishing because our native wild salmon of these remarkable leapers. are hovering close to extinction in all of Here’s a personal experience that them. Canadian rivers are less degraded might help someone who has not fished and most are restricted to fly fishing for Atlantic salmon understand what only, some just catch-and-release. it’s all about. These incredible fish do not eat once One June morning, I began fishing they leave the oceans to spawn, and so a big pool just below a highway bridge tempting them to rise to an artificial fly on Saint John River a mile above tide is one of the most challenging endeavors water on Gaspe Peninsula. I was using in all of angling. The process is both a big hair-wing dry fly. On about the fascinating and frustrating. Only one 20th cast, a beautiful 18-20 pound or two salmon in a pool might take a chrome-plated hen fish, just out of the fly on any given day—or maybe none. sea, rose up through the 6 or 8 feet of When hooked on a fly, Atlantic salmon make Taking one on a fly becomes a long, transparent, turquoise flow and drifted amazing leaps that seem to defy gravity. calculated ritual of showing each salmon for a couple of feet, right below my fly,

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Paiute Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarki seleniris

By Dr. Robert Behnke In 1912, a sheepherder transplanted Paiute cutthroats from below California’s Llewellyn Falls into Silver King Creek above the falls, which was fishless at the time. This fortunate transplant saved the species, because rainbow trout stocking below the falls soon completely hybridized the Paiutes downstream. Scientists first found Paiute trout in 1933, when they were described as Salmo seleniris. At that time, scientists mistakenly believed that the fish’s original range was only in Silver King Creek above the falls and that the heavily spotted hybrids below the falls were Lahontan cutthroats. Unfortunately, in 1949, a pack train stocking rainbow trout fry in a nearby drainage took a wrong turn on the trail and mistakenly stocked Silver King Creek above the falls. Hybridization devastated the population except for two tiny tributaries. These tributaries later provided pure Paiutes to stock in Silver King Creek. The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board recently approved a plan to CARSON RIVER eradicate rainbow trout and hybrids from the waters. The Paiute

Corral cutthroat trout was listed as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Valley Creek Species Act, but was downlisted to threatened in 1975 to facilitate Llewellyn Falls eradication of other species.

CLARK FORK RIVER Coyote Valley Creek ESA Status: Threatened Silver King Creek CALIFORNIA Markings: The Paiute cutthroat trout can be charac- terized as a Lahontan cutthroat trout without spots.

Kennedy Creek You Can Help Bring Back the Natives: Consistent with its Conservation Success Index findings The original range of the Paiute cutthroat related to habitat and population integrity, TU strongly trout was limited to no more than 10 supports moving forward with eliminating non-native trout miles of Silver King Creek and the lower sections of two tributary streams, Coyote from Silver King Creek. For more information on how you ______Valley Creek and Corral Valley Creek. can get involved, visit tucalifornia.org/Paiute-Cutt.html. ILLUSTRATION BY SKETCHANDRELEASE.COM BY ILLUSTRATION TROUT SPRING 2007 64

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