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usa · 2013-06-12
AGFC projects under way on riverbed, overlook North Fork River projects: Overlook and fish habitat improvement underway Written by FRANK WALLIS More habitat articles at fishiding.com Mike Cantrell, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission coordinator of Regional Maintenance, points to the North Fork River while standing on an overlook now under construction on a bl…
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bass habitat 2 · 2013-06-12
Forward Post: AFS Journal What Exactly Is Fish Habitat and Why Must We Care? Mon Jun 3, 2013 2:29pm What Exactly Is Fish Habitat and Why Must We Care?Thomas E. Bigford Office of Habitat Conservation, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD 20910. E-mail: Thomas.bigford@noaa.gov “Fish habitat” is a simple term. We can easily imagine a fish l…
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bluegill habitat · 2013-06-11
Hooked for life – by Bruce Kania May 30, 2013 posted by Anne Fish Fry Lake may be the best fishing hole in Montana…at least for kids! The lake is only 6.5 acres, but the water’s invitingly clear and it is extremely easy to catch yellow perch, crappie and bluegills. Even some Yellowstone Cutthroat trout happen here…which may be their easternmost extension. Fi…
Read field note →conservation · 2012-08-29
New home for the small fry US - A new report by Ecotrust has found that watershed and fish habitat restoration in Oregon has created jobs and generated $977.5 million in economic activity between 2001 and 2010. “Restoration can drive economic development and job creation, particularly in rural communities that have suffered from persistently high unemploymen…
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usa · 2012-07-08
A few weeks ago, my wife Renee’ and I took a trip to Shepherd Montana, headquarters of Floating Island International Inc. We had been invited to stay on the ranch and to see for ourselves how Bruce Kania and his wife Anne, are growing huge fish fast with a woven matrix of inert substrates called BioHaven, or Floating Treatment Wetlands. I had been in contact…
Read field note →habitat education · 2012-05-10
fishiding artificial fish habitat LEADVILLE — Fish habitat enhancement work is set to begin later this year on public parts of the upper Arkansas River below the Highway 24 bridge as biologists and engineers with Colorado Parks and Wildlife prepare to restore a section of river that was once mostly lifeless because of decades of mining activity. The river re…
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usa · 2012-03-18
The concept of including fisheries management in strategies for water quality improvement is not new, but floating islands give the notion a boost. The simple concept is, add lots and lots of substrate and the fish will come! Catch plenty of fish and you will sequester the unwanted nutrients in a more appropriate part of the eco-system – lunch! See the dozen…
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conservation · 2012-01-29
Brad Job: Rapacious Grows Destroy Habitat, Undo Restoration Work – January 29, 2012 Saturday, January 28, 2012 Nightmare mosaic photo from a raid in the King Range National Conservation Area. Photo courtesy Brad Job I’ve been fascinated by water and the organisms that live in it since I was a child. When three years of sea duty made me fall in love with the …
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conservation · 2012-01-13
This diversion dam on Wyoming's Salt River seems pretty low, but it was blocking access to vital spawning habitat for some trout and other native fish. photo courtesy Trout Unlimited Across the West, many rivers and watersheds are fragmented by old diversion dams and other irrigation infrastructure. That’s a big problem for trout, which need access to the fu…
Read field note →habitat education · 2012-01-10
Future fisheries panel to meet today The 14-member Future Fisheries Improvement Program’s Citizen Review Panel will meet today at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in Helena, 1420 East Sixth Ave., beginning at 8:30 a.m. The panel will review project applications for the winter funding cycle and prepare recommendations that the FWP Commission will review in Ma…
Read field note →habitat education · 2012-01-04
Swimming against the current won’t be quite as hard for fish in parts of the Siuslaw basin thanks to a project that replaced 11 culverts on creeks southwest of Eugene. The culverts opened a passage to upstream habitat on three creeks that was effectively blocked by the old pipes. Buck, Hawley and Esmond creeks could start seeing runs of coho and chinook salm…
Read field note →fishing · 2011-12-29
Willamette River OR Conservation Easement Paves Way For Long-Term Fish & Wildlife Conservation Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Corvallis, Ore. - -(Ammoland.com)- Greenbelt Land Trust announced today the acquisition of conservation easements on more than 300 acres of Willamette River frontage property in Benton County that will benefit a number of spec…
Read field note →conservation · 2011-12-12
ISU student Dan Taylor shows off two rainbow trout he caught near the dock at Ada Hayden Heritage Park Lake in Ames after the Iowa Department of Natural Resources stocked about 2,200 11- to 13-inch rainbow trout from a hatchery in Decorah, Iowa, on Friday November 19, 2011, in the north basin of the lake. / David Purdy/The Register A whole stringer of folks …
Read field note →conservation · 2011-12-12
Montana is among the states receiving funding for improving fish habitat . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will provide more than $3.3 million to support 68 fish habitat projects in 36 states. An additional $9.9 million in partner contributions will go toward restoring and enhancing stream, lake and coastal habitat , as well as to improving recreational f…
Read field note →conservation · 2011-11-27
Upgrades under way at popular fishing spot near Navajo Dam Chris Arnold of Durango lands a brown trout in the Texas Hole of the San Juan River below the Navajo Dam in New Mexico. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has begun work on $300,000 worth of improvements to the fish habitat on a popular 4-mile stretch of the river below the dam. NAVAJO DAM, N…
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