In what a number of scientists suggested was the Trump administration’s latest effort to stop tracking the changing climate in hopes of convincing the public that the climate emergency isn’t happening, the National Science Foundation announced Monday that it was dismantling a crucial deep-ocean monitoring system that for years has helped researchers understand the impacts of the crisis on the world’s oceans.

On Colorado’s Front Range, essentially a high desert, longtime trout anglers tend to be more tuned into the realities of drought, low water, and rising temperatures — all things that are fundamentally bad for trout fishing and, more importantly, the fish themselves. Many anglers around the country may have never experienced a “real” drought firsthand or simply haven’t been fishing long enough to understand what prolonged heat and shrinking flows actually mean for a species that craves as much cold, oxygen-rich water as it can get. Over the years, there are a few things I’ve learned that can help not only the fisheries but also help anglers continue to enjoy getting outside during conditions like these.