n November of 2020, the outdoor community said goodbye to a legend. Paul Roos was an angler, a bird hunter, an outfitter, a conservationist, and a fixture in the Blackfoot River Valley. Alongside his first wife, Kay, and his . . .
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The Orvis Conservation Blog speaks to our impassioned belief that if we are to benefit from the use of our natural resources, we must be willing to act to preserved them, an ethos we practice by committing 5% of pre-tax profits to conservation.
Wednesday Wake-Up Call 04.21.21
A bill that many Montanans consider a danger to water quality is making its way through the legislature and will soon be on Governor Gianforte’s desk. According to Wade Fellin of . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call: Everglades Day ’21 Edition
Since 2012, April 7 has been celebrated as Everglades Day in Florida, marking the birthday of the the ecosystem’s most famous advocate, Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998). To commemorate Douglas’s life and work, . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.31.21
On Monday, the editorial board of the New York Times published an op-ed entitled “Biden’s Chance to Save the Everglades,” arguing that there is a real possibility for bipartisanship in the effort to . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.24.21
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.10.21
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the . . .
Read MoreOrvis Job Wall 03.05.21
Welcome to the Orvis Job Wall, where we update you periodically on the opportunities to be a part of the Orvis team. If you read this blog regularly, you’re probably already aware of what a great place this is to work—from the . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.02.21
As we told you a few weeks ago, the Pebble Limited Partnership filed an appeal of the November decision to deny the permit to build Pebble Mine. “The Army Corps says the application is sufficient to begin an . . .
Read MorePodcast: Sometimes to Save a River, You Have to Buy It
In this week’s podcast, we’ll visit with the dynamic co-founder and president of Western Rivers Conservancy, Sue Doroff. Over the past 30 years, Sue and her small, lean staff have protected nearly 400 miles of rivers, . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 02.24.21
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry . . .
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