Category Archives: Fishing
Bighorn Country—A Good Idea We Shouldn’t Squander
Note: In November of 2018, Alberta Environment and Parks opened a discussion about its proposal for the protection of the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River, or Bighorn Country, an area that has been needing protection from abuse for many … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, General, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta Environment and Parks, Bighorn Country, Fish and Wildlife biologists, Fish and Wildlife Officers, Fish and Wildlife technicians, headwaters, land stewardship, North Saskatchewan River, public land use zone, Rachel Notley, Shannon Phillips, species-at-risk, threatened species, watershed, Wildland Parks
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Braking for the Planet – Learning the Limits
Guest Blog: Continual and increasing consumption of products and services is a corner stone of our economy. Technology leads that charge. In the following essay biologist Lorne Fitch (and frequent guest blogger here) explains how the on-going pace of technology isolates … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch, Wildlife
Tagged Adam Norris, Arctic grayling, Athabasca rainbow trout, bull trout, Clayton Lamb, cruise control, cutthroat trout, economic values, environmental limits, environmental threshold, global warming, grassland songbirds, Jason Unruh, limits, linear features, over-consumption, over-consumptive lifestyle, prairie grasslands, regulatory limits, road density, social values, technology, threshold, tipping point, Travis Ripley, Wapiti River
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The Science behind OHV Restrictions
Guest Blog: With the creation in Alberta of the Castle provincial and wildlands parks, the proposed parks in the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River (Bighorn) and the recreation plans for the Livingston and Porcupine areas of southern Alberta, there … Continue reading
How Did They Get Here?
I wrote this piece back in 2005 that describes how our native fish arrived in Alberta. I’m posting it here because I believe it’s important information to understand when we talk about species-at-risk and why protecting habit and wild places … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Fishing
Tagged Arctic grayling, brook trout, bull trout, burbot, Columbia River, cutthroat trout, fish, fisheries, Fishing, Fraser River, Glacial Lake Agassiz, Glacial Lake Edmonton, glaciation, Jasper National Park, Joseph Nelson, lake trout, lake whitefish, Martin Paetz, Miette River, Missouri-Mississippi refugium, mooneye, Moose Lake, mountain whitefish, northern pike, Peace River, pothole lakes, rainbow trout, refugia, refugium, Yukon refugium, Yukon River
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Moving On
[Note: The following was first published in the December 2017 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2017 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. Knowing when to end something you’ve enjoyed doing can be difficult to do. Although I have enjoyed writing Rubs, Scrapes … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Outdoorsmen, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta Fish and Wildlife Divison, Alberta Outdoorsmen, catch-and-release, Climate Change, habitat conservation, habitat protection, Habitat Protection and Management Branch, last column, Outdoor Writers of Canada, Rob Miskosky
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Nickel and Diming Outdoor Rights
[Note: The following was first published in the October 2017 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2017 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. Back in May of 2008 the Legislative Assembly of Alberta passed Bill 201, the Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Heritage Act. … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Alberta Outdoorsmen, Canada, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
Tagged Bill 201, biodiversity, caribou rearing facility, Castle Provincial Park, Castle Wildland Provincial Park, Fisheries Act, Fishing, fishing heritage, habitat conservation, Hunting, hunting fishing trapping heritage act, hunting heritage, La Peche herd, Len Mitzel, Little Smoky herd, Lorne Fitch, Migratory Birds Convention Act, nickel and diming, nickel and diming rights, outdoor rights, rights, species-at-risk, trapping, trapping heritage, Wildlife Act, woodland caribou, woodland caribou recovery
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Fisheries Management: Complex, Complicated and Poorly Comprehended
Guest Blog: Alberta Environment and Parks is proposing plans to recover native trout in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The plans call for the closing of fishing along many streams to allow the trout populations to recover. However, many … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch
Tagged catch-and-release, cumulative effects, cumulative effects analysis, Eastern Slopes, fish conservation, fish harvest, fisheries biologists, fisheries management, habitat management, land use footprint, land-use, Lorne Fitch, native trout, non-native trout, riparian buffers, riparian habitat, watershed management
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Remembering Old Friends
[Note: The following was first published in the September 2017 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2017 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. “The older you get, Don, the more of these you’ll attend,” observed one of my mentors many years ago now. … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Outdoorsmen, Fishing, General, Hunting
Tagged Arctic, Cascade Mountains, climbing school, friends, friendships, ice climbing, moose hunting, Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, mountain climbing, MRNP, National Park Service climbing school, never forget your friends, old friends, public service, Rainier, seasonal ranger, Sierra Nevada, summer jobs, US National Park Service, USNP
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Wabamun Lake Fishery Update
[Note: The following was first published in the June 2017 Alberta Outdoorsmen. Revised in July of 2019] Copyright © 2017 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. It has been a while since I wrote a column about what is happening with … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Alberta Outdoorsmen, Fishing
Tagged catch-and-release, catch-and-release fishing, catch-and-release mortality, commercial fishing, fish recycling, Fishing, Lake Wabamun, lake whitefish, northern pike, perch, treble hook mortality, treble hooks, trophy lake, trophy pike, trophy pike fishery, Wabamun, Wabamun Fishery Update, Wabamun Lake, walleye, walleye native Wabamun, walleye restoration, whitefish, yellow perch
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