The wind blows in Wyoming. So much so that over much of its southern acreage, trees live in a constant state of sideways, bowing to the prevailing forces. Tumbleweed bounces through prairie sagebrush. The earth's guts, buttes, and sawtooth ridgelines live outside its skin-exposed. There are rivers. And there are generally few roads and people between them.
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Colorado Roadless Areas (RAs) are underdeveloped locations in national forests that do not have authorized Forest Service roads. These RAs hold some of the most remote fishing in Colorado, as well as being home to a disproportionate amount of habitat for native cutthroat trout.
Edwards spoke to a group of reporters and fishermen visiting the Sitkoh River restoration project on Chichagof Island, in Southeast Alaska's 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. It was a joint effort by the Forest Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Trout Unlimited, and Sitka Conservation Society to fix what some describe as a Tongass "hammered gem" - a wounded but
high-value salmon-producing watershed in one of Alaska's most prolific fish nurseries.
Restoring depleted salmon runs is a big, complicated job. But the Trout Unlimited group has found an innovative, hands-on approach to supporting the cause: One donated Christmas tree at a time.
New guidance from top EPA officials could speed remediation of abandoned Colorado mine sites by clarifying the terms of cleanup agreements between the federal agency and Good Samaritan groups.