The Good Fight: The State Responds to the Drought
It’s raining! It’s raining! The trouble is, it’s not raining rain — or at least not very much…
Tom Martens
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The Good Fight: Fish and Game Commission Expands Wild Trout Program
At its December 2014 meeting in Southern California, the California Fish and Game Commission designated for wild-trout management…
The Good Fight: Mining Threatens the Smith, State’s “Most Beautiful River”
The Smith is the most beautiful river I’ve ever seen.” That may sound like chamber of commerce hyperbole,…
The Paper Hatch
All Fishermen Are Liars By John Gierach. Published by Simon and Schuster, 2014; $24.00, hardbound. Lefty Kreh is…
The Good Fight: Delta Update and Other News
Water Bond and Delta Updates Populations of many endangered fish species in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta are on…
The Paper Hatch
Against the Currents: The Unlikely Story of the Southern California Steelhead By John G. Tomlinson, Jr. Published by…
Trout Town: Sonora
Last year’s rim fire, the third largest wildfire in California’s history, brought national attention to the Gold Rush-era…
The Good Fight: A Conversation with CDFW’s Charlton “Chuck” Bonham
Few state agencies are more complex than the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), where some 2,100…
The Good Fight: SoCal Conservation – Works in Progress
This is the second of a two-part series on conservation stories involving trout and other sport fish in…
The Good Fight: Top 10 North State Success Stories
This is the first of a two-part series on conservation success stories involving trout and other sport-fish waters…