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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Clark explored the Yellowstone River in a boat made of lashed cottonwood trees. These trees, which grow along many plains rivers, proved invaluable throughout the journey, providing shade and shelter as well as transportation. To commemorate the tree, Clark named the site where he constructed the boats Camp Cottonwood. But the massive groves have been [...]

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In The Conservationist, Hal Herring interviews U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D.-Montana) about why he is tenaciously pushing a Senate vote on The Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 before November. “I’m the Chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, and these are all ideas that have come out of our work there. When I got to be the [...]

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The state of Louisiana has released a $50 billion, 50-year strategy to help protect some coastal residents from worsening storm surges and severe land loss that threaten to swallow communities. The plan proposes significant water diversions and marsh-creation projects around the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers. But due to the high cost and difficulty, fewer restoration [...]

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A recent UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report reminds us again of the vital importance of caring for our freshwater resources. The report, titled “State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture,” warns that while food production during the last 50 years witnessed notable increase, the achievements in many places [...]

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“I have a kind of respect – a worshipful attitude, even- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.” – Sidney Poitier “We are sustained by water, biologically, emotionally and spiritually.  Without it, plants, animals, humans, the earth dies.” -Larry Fahn “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity [...]

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[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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#10: Wishing that the use of expensive, damaging riprap traditionally used for stream bank stabilization be replaced by reinforced vegetation and other strategies that actually help restore our waterways and riparian buffers. >more #9: Wishing that river, stream and wetland restoration efforts focus on (passive) low-cost, sustainable strategies for repair and renewal. >more #8: Wishing [...]

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The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued revised regulations on March 31, 2008 governing compensatory mitigation for authorized impacts to wetlands, streams, and other waters of the U.S. under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. These regulations are designed to improve the effectiveness of compensatory mitigation to replace lost aquatic resource [...]

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Author Alice Kenny writes:  “In the classic US television comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, a poor mountaineer named Jed Clampett strikes oil on his land and must adapt to a new life of luxury.   Audiences chuckled and cheered, and no one questioned for a moment Jed’s right to cash in on his largesse.  After all, it [...]

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