Mountain Pine Beetles Doing It Twice a Year
March 14, 2012–Discovery of pine beetles breeding twice in a year helps explain increasing damage, CU researchers say (North Forty News) The above headline caught my eye as I was…
Read moreAlaska Bans Felt Soled Wading Boots
Per News from Women’s Flyfishing – Cecilia Kleinkauf editor. SPECIAL NOTICE!!!!! Attention all Alaskan or Alaska-bound Fly Anglers In the interest of preventing the spread of un-wanted species, Alaska will…
Read moreInvasive Species Minimization
Last year I wrote three posts on invasive species and one on the use of felt vs aquastealth soles to control invasive species spread. New Zealand banned use of felt…
Read moreInvasive Species Control
8/25 Invasive Species Control is a difficult issue because of the wide diversity of species involved. Some advocate use of chemicals for controlling invasive species. Others advocate non-chemical means to…
Read moreInvasive Species Impacts
8/19 Invasive species are those that are not a normal part of an ecosystem or aquasystem. Usually invasive species are introduced by human beings on boats, anchor ropes, wet felt…
Read moreInvasive Species List
It seems the list of invasive species grows every day. Here in Colorado, it was the New Zealand mud snail, then the zebra mussel was discovered on a boat anchor…
Read moreA Fire of Biblical Proportions
7/28 Could a Fire of Biblical Proprotions happen? Maybe it could, courtesy of a 1/2 inch long insect, the greens organizations and inept public policy. When I was fishing the Blue…
Read moreRock Snot – Bad To Good
1/27 Rock Snot Didymosphenia geminata commonly known as didymo or rock snot is increasingly clogging our rivers and waterways. What does rock snot do? Didaymo or rock snot is a…
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