For the past 15 years or so, anglers have been focused on stopping Pebble Mine, but there are other threats to Bristol Bay’s salmon, trout, and char populations. The Conservation Fund is working to protect almost 45,000 acres . . .
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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 04.13.22
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 Theodore Roosevelt . . .
Read MorePodcast: Good News from the Everglades, with Dr. Steve Davis
This week, my guest is Dr. Steve Davis, chief scientist for the Everglades Foundation. Steve gives us an update on the ongoing Everglades restoration project, which will benefit fisheries and clean water throughout Florida and not just in the Everglades. . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.30.22
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 Theodore Roosevelt . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 03.16.22
For the past few weeks, we have been posting about Florida Senate Bill 2508, which threatened some of the key tenets of Everglades restoration. After a lot of negotiation, the passed the full legislature vote on Monday, but its final form is a far . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 02.16.22
Today’s Wake-Up Call is devoted to the important legislation pending in Florida, which threatens Everglades-restorations efforts by deprioritizing the EAA Reservoir project south of Lake Okeechobee and by changing the . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 02.09.22
Last Friday evening, Senate Bill 2508 was filed, and conservationists and water advocates in the Sunshine State are doing everything in their power to make everyone aware of what’s going on. Clearly, by filing right before the weekend, legislators . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 02.02.22
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 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Everglades Foundation, Captains for Clean Water, VoteWater.org, and Conservation Hawks (among others), we’ll make sure you’ve got the information you need to understand the issues … Continue reading “Wednesday Wake-Up Call 02.02.22”
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 01.05.22
Two decades after the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) was authorized by Congress, more and more constituencies are seeing the importance of fulfilling the promise of CERP. This evening, Everglades Foundation is . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 12.15.21
As part of Trout Unlimited’s “Snake Week,” Orvis president Simon Perkins joined TU’s Tom Reed, Greg McReynolds and Kirk Deeter to discuss salmon, fly fishing, bird dogs and why Orvis is so committed to restoring the Snake River basin and . . .
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