Posted in planning on Jun 20th, 2012
25 years on, Bernie’s still looking for his feet As a young man in the 1960s, Bernie Fowler recalls he could wade chest deep into the Patuxent River and still see his toes as he netted crabs. But the clarity of his beloved river plummeted over the years, along with the vitality of the rest [...]
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Posted in ecology on Jan 24th, 2011
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/8669977 w=400&h=225] Green Fire: Aldo Leopold a Land Ethic for Our Time from Jeannine Richards on Vimeo. On Saturday, February 5, the Aldo Leopold Foundation released “Green Fire,” the first full-length, high definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold. The film explores Aldo Leopold’s life in the early part of the [...]
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Posted in fish on Jul 26th, 2010
I read with interest the recent story by Brett French “Barrier Proposed to Protect Cutthroat,” announcing Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks’ latest misguided plan to construct dams and dump poison into streams in Sweet Grass County. It occurs to me that if anyone other than state fisheries biologists were building dams in natural streams or trying to [...]
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Posted in planning on Mar 31st, 2010
NOAA – National Weather Service – WaterCurrent · By State/County: National Hydrologic Assessment of Spring Flooding Risk as of 3/12/2010 now available. Additional Resources available include National Significant River Flood Outlook for the United States. See http://www.weather.gov/ahps/ Tweet
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