The Good Fight – Suction Dredge Mining : History, Status, Issues, and Prognosis
All mining practices, with the possible exception of gold panning, are intrinsically destructive, because natural resources must be…
Conservation
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The Good Fight: California Trout to Spend $850,000 to Restore Hat Creek
Hat creek is the poster child for what happens to trout populations when stream habitat gets trashed, but…
The Good Fight: Governor Approves Wild Trout Program Expansion
Author’s note: Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law Assembly Bill 2402, which among other things, changes the…
The Good Fight: There’s More to the DFG Remake Than a Name Change
Should the name of the California Department of Fish and Game be changed to the California Department of…
The Good Fight: Dam Relicensing and Fisheries Advocacy
We tend to go to our grave naïve about certain subjects, whether on purpose or otherwise. I fully…
The Good Fight: Will the Klamath River’s Dams Ever Come Down?
In 2001, farmers in the upper Klamath Basin saw their irrigation water turned off in order to protect…
The Good Fight: Delta Stripers Threatened
Striped bass are aquatic vacuum cleaners. They eat nearly anything that swims. Juveniles eat microscopic invertebrates by the…
The Good Fight: Conservation Updates
Trout Conservationist Heads State Fish and Game Agency For the first time in California’s history, a trout conservation…
The Good Fight: “Visionaries” Start Work on Fish-and-Game Strategies
Who’s got the vision for California’s fish and game? More than 130 people with a stake in the…
The Good Fight: The Sierra Fund Takes On Threat of Mercury to Anglers
Mercury and gold mining have gone hand in hand in the Sierra Nevada ever since the mid 1800s.…