Ted Williams - 2007

2007-10-29

Future of Hunting?

 

Here is an article that was published in National Geographic, of all places, that covers the role of hunting in conservation and ponders the future as we continue to lose youngsters to video games and malls.

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2007-10-29

Interesting discussion on the President’s executive order re. striped bass

http://reel-time.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59052

 

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2007-10-29

Fluke on the Brink

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/opinion/15sat3.html?_r=2&oref=slogin.&oref=slogin

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2007-10-29

Steve Rajeff Interview

 

http://troutunderground.com/category/video/

 

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2007-10-29

Soviet-induced water crises push Eastern European nations to consider solutions

 

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/22/111022/57

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2007-10-29

WHY YOU CATCH ONLY SMALL FISH

http://reel-time.com/blogs/mcmurray/

 

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2007-10-29

Salmon survival at stake

 http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/pentictonwesternnews/news/10680556.html

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2007-10-19

Who Needs Grayling?

A special fish struggles to hang on in the Lower 48

On a fine summer morning in 1991 my son and I were wet-wading up the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, exercising brown trout on puffy dry flies. We were about to turn back when I hooked and landed a fish of a lifetime.

It was a grayling-all of nine inches in length. Its flanks glowed with the silver and pink of a Montana pre-dawn. Its enormous dorsal fin was trimmed with orange and splashed with spots and streaks of red, white, green, turquoise and neon blue. Clearly God had made it last, after he'd practiced on all the other fishes.

In the Lower 48 states Arctic grayling are a Pleistocene relict, left in northern Michigan and the upper Missouri River system by glacial...

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2007-10-19

Conserving Wild Birds and Their Habitats throughout the Americas


BIRD CONSERVATION NEWS TIP-SHEET 10/10/07 Steve Holmer, 202/234-7181 ext. 216, sholmer@abcbirds.org, www.abcbirds.org
  1. Will Gov. Schwarzenegger Protect Endangered Condors by Banning Lead Ammunition?
  2. Scientists Call for New Plan to Protect Spotted Owl
  3. Court to Rule on Tower Safeguards on Gulf Coast
  4. Oil and Gas Drilling Plans Threaten Sage-Grouse in Colorado and Wyoming
  5. Legislation Introduced to Tackle Threat of Invasive Species
  6. How Will Conservation Fare in Final Farm and Spending Bills?
  7. Bristol Bay Stripped of Longstanding Protections...

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2007-10-19

NO-OLF

North Carolinians Opposed to the Outlying Landing Field
P. O. Box 32
Pinetown, NC 27865
www.noolf.com
Contacts: Defense Authorization Bill passed the Senate without Site C funding

October 2, 2007, the United States Senate passed the Defense Authorization Bill that omitted the Navy's funding request of 10.6 million dollars for an outlying landing field (OLF) in Washington and Beaufort Counties.

Department of Defense Administrative Provisions Bill #1547 reads:

SEC. 130. None of the funds in this title shall be used for any activity related to the construction of an Outlying Landing Field in Washington County, North Carolina.

"This is fantastic news," stated Christy Ange a No-OLF activist who has fought...

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