Ted Williams - 2006

2006-04-30

VERMONT Sportsmen vs. The Northern Forest

The current crisis in the Moosehead region -- with the 14,000-member Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine whooping it up for massive development of the Northern Forest by Plum Creek -- calls to mind the disturbing reaction to land conservation by some sportsmen in Vermont. In both state’s the pro-development, pro-logging, pro-access-at-ANY-cost faction of sportsmen represents a minority. However, in both state’s that faction is making a majority of the noise. If wild land and water is to be permanently protected sportsmen conservationists need to step up to the plate. Sportsmen vs. The Northern Forest by Ted Williams THINKING SPORTSMEN in the region were ecstatic. In December 1998 forest-products giant Champion International, having cut the guts out of...

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2006-04-30

Splake vs. Brook Trout

http://www.northernskynews.com/backissue%20pages/Maine%20Brookies.html

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2006-04-29

Splake Threaten Lake Superior Brookies

In light of recent efforts by friends and colleagues in Maine to limit the stocking of splake, the following piece may be of interest. One particular point that should be noted: In the West splake are used to CONTROL overabundant, stunted, alien brook trout: The latest on saving the big brookies of the Great Lakes Bringing Back The Giants By Ted Williams ________________________________________ We called them "coasters" and "salmon trout" because they patrolled the coastlines of Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan and Nipigon, and because they were the size of salmon. Then, before we had a chance to learn much about how they lived and reproduced, we essentially wiped them out. We caught and killed a lot of these giant brook trout-but that doesn't mean there had been a lot of...

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2006-04-29

Leaping fish slams boater on Suwannee

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060425/LOCAL/204250344/1078/news

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2006-04-29

Elk kills eyed to restore park balance

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3748062

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2006-04-29

10-foot gator bites wading fly fisherman

http://www.newszap.com/articles/2006/04/27/fl/lake_okeechobee/aok02.txt

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2006-04-29

Photo of Drill pads in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming

http://www.huntingandfishingjournal.org/archives/issues/cbm_aengst_photo_wyoming_drill_pads.php

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2006-04-29

What You Can See on April 29

From Audubon’s Earth Almanac by Ted Williams and compiled in “Wild Moments,” edited by Connie Isbell, Illustrations by John Burgoyne, Storey Publishing, 174 pages. White Reprise As the last patches of snow shrink under a high, lingering sun, the woods turn white again. In rich forestland from Ontario and Quebec and south to Arkansas and Georgia, large-flowered trilliums are in full bloom. Like all trilliums, they have three leaves, three sepals, three petals, and a three-chambered pistil. Other common varieties include the painted trillium—so called for the fuchsia veins in the center of its white, wavy-edged petals—and the aptly named stinking Benjamin, or wet-dog trillium, which seems to be appreciated only by its carrion-fly pollinators. Trilliums...

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2006-04-29

Feds Cracking Down on Off-Highway Vehicles

From: Colorado4x4.org . http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=63464 I'm a volunteer at the Public Lands Center in Durango and we had our annual orientation meeting yesterday. There was a national Travel Management Rule finalized last year. Check it out: www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv It a nutshell, everything will be closed to motorized vehicles unless specified as open! No exceptions for ADA access to public lands. Timeline is set for implementation in 2009. There will be public hearings and it's unknown as to what effect the Colorado Roadless Task Force conclusion will have on the USFS Travel Plan One of the reasons given for this new...

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2006-04-28

Something Radical--a Good Fishing Show

Don’t miss this. It should be excellent. Featured are my pals Amanda Switzer and Brendan McCarthy -- two very smart, very well spoken, very competent Montauk guides. Should be a wonderful break from blood-stained tuna/wahoo gaffers, pro athletes who can’t cast and were unknown even before they retired, giggling bass kissers. etc. Unless I wound up on the cutting room floor, I’m in it briefly. At least the ESPN helicopter was orbiting over my head when I was guiding for the TU Fall Blitz Party. (I’m at the helm of the green Contender -- “Assignment,” so named to enable my wife to tell editors and creditors who call that “I’m on Assignment.”) My son and cousin, who were on Amanda’s boat on different days with...

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