Posted in water on Mar 20th, 2013
World Water Day is held annually on March 22 as to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The United Nations General Assembly designated March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2013, [...]
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Posted in conservation on Mar 8th, 2013
Trout Headwaters, Inc is pleased to release the 2013 FREE Yellowstone River Guide for Conservation, Recreation, Education and other Resources. This brand new guide gives you everything you need to plan your Yellowstone adventure for a short half-day or for a month. More, it provides stakeholders with valuable conservation information and many resource links to insure this national [...]
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Posted in conservation on Feb 21st, 2013
The Global Journal must see the same inspiring things in Rare as we do as a company: groundbreaking innovation in the way people relate to nature. It’s why we’ve been a Rare supporter and choose to feature Rare on our Club EcoBlu blog. For the second year in a row, The Global Journal included Rare [...]
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Posted in water on Feb 19th, 2013
From Triple Pundit Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s People and Ecosystems Program. This post was co-written with James Mulligan, Executive Director at Green Community Ventures.Natural ecosystems provide essential services for our communities. Forests and wetlands, for example, filter the water we drink, protect neighborhoods from floods and droughts, and shade aquatic habitat for fish populations.While [...]
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Posted in sustainability on Jan 6th, 2013
Conservation Magazine recently reported that a new study has confirmed what you’ve probably suspected for awhile: Spending time in nature without computers, phones, and other electronic devices makes people more creative. The study published in PLoS ONE and called, “Creativity in the wild: Improving creative reasoning through immersion in natural settings” followed 56 people as they [...]
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Posted in water on Nov 28th, 2012
Reprinted with permission from author Chandler Van Voorhis of GreenTrees, LLC Water has played a critical role in the formation of the United States. As President Theodore Roosevelt stated 100 years ago, in the first ever White House Conference on Conservation, “It was in Philadelphia that the representatives of all the States met for what was in [...]
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Posted in restoration on Nov 27th, 2012
Stream, River and Wetland Restoration Projects, Quotes and More. 2012 edition of RecentWork, by Trout Headwaters Inc, shows state-of-the-science application of environmental restoration projects across the United States. >Download the ebook for IPad Ibooks Tweet
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Posted in policy on Nov 20th, 2012
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Choose Clean Water Coalition (which is comprised of 225 environmental organizations throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed) felt that they had consensus on the use of nutrient trading as a viable tool to help meet the nutrient and sediment runoff goals as outlined by the U.S. EPA’s bay wide [...]
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Posted in stewardship on Nov 5th, 2012
Chronicling a 31-day journey on the longest undammed river in the lower 48, the film covers major issues like the 2011 oil spill, along with sweet anecdotal stories and plenty of fly fishing, on one of America’s most wild and scenic rivers. Director Hunter Weeks teams up with presenting sponsor Trout Headwaters, Inc. to present [...]
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Posted in taimen on Nov 3rd, 2012
Many of you who have been following this series on my work with Siberian taimen (Hucho taimen) in Mongolia may not be aware that this species is actually one of five taimen species that exist in the world. A recent International Union for Conservation of Nature report titled, “Largest Salmon in the World Edges Toward Extinction,” [...]
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