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The Trinity River: Lessons in restoration

Science has helped improve management and restoration, but there still isn’t enough water to go around
Prior to restoration, the Trinity River at Oregon Gulch ran in a straight line, and mountains of mining tailings blockaded the bank (photo: Aaron Martin / Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department).

On a Saturday afternoon in late May, Dania Rose Colegrove stood in the shade of an oak tree, waiting for a small group of young runners to crest the hill on a dusty dirt and gravel road.

Photo: Tim Romano

Online marketplaces helped launch the internet into the stratosphere, taking it from the domain of geeks, nerds, and academics to a mainstay in the lives of everyday people. At their pinnacle, websites like Craigslist and eBay — before the latter and similar services like Etsy starting squeezing sellers with outsized fees and confounding buyers with increasingly convoluted user interfaces bloated with unwanted features and rife with scams — offered users immensely powerful marketplaces where they could find or sell almost any item their heart desired, no matter how specialized or obscure.

A bison grazes along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park (photo: NPS / Jacob Frank).

The calendar said it was still spring. Barely. But the news release from Yellowstone National Park, and the subsequent follow-up from Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, delivered the ominous and expected news in this fishy corner of southwest Montana and northwest Wyoming. As of 2 p.m. on June 19, summer “hoot owl” closures would go into effect.

5 all-time favorite fly rods

A short list of Todd Tanner’s favorite trout rods
Photo: Jeremy Roberts / Conservation Media.

One of the advantages of working with some of the world’s most talented fly fishing instructors is that those instructors are always challenging your views.

“Is that really the best way to teach the students how to make a reach cast?”

“Seriously? That’s how you rig your nymphs?”

“Nobody fishes Double Taper fly lines anymore. Why are we recommending them?”

“Would you explain why you’re raising your rod tip at the end of that cast? That’s not how I do it.”

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