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August 2012
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
TUC Receives Additional Funding
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Gerry
Thompson, Co-chair (left center) and Robert Eagleson Treasurer (left) present
TUC CEO Jeff Surtees (right center) with cheque. Lesley Peterson, TUC Project
Biologist (right middle) and Don Pike, TUC’s Director of Special Events (right)
were also on hand for the presentation.
Photo, courtesy Trout Unlimited Canada |
Trout Unlimited Canada writes: "TUC receives funding support from Canadian Fly Fishing Championships Conservation Symposium. The funds will be directed towards the Mallard Point side channel enhancement project on the Bow River in Calgary."
Read story here: http://bit.ly/1cVnxJe
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
Two big girls having a grand time!
#bowriver #flyfishing
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
FLOOD - The Other “F” Word?
FLOOD - The Other “F” Word?
Gordon Lightfoot, the icon of Canadian folk music, intones, “When the skies of November turn gloomy” as a warning to ships plying the waters of Lake Superior, even big iron ore carriers. In land locked and generally water short Alberta, Lightfoot’s words don’t have the same cachet, but recent storm events have begun to sensitize us.
The floods of 1995, 2002, 2005 and now 2013 have made us start to search the skies of May and June for signs of impending doom. Spring rain used to fill our prairie souls with joy; now the same rain, especially when it persists for days, fills us with a sense of angst.
With recent experiences we’ve started to look at a flood as the other “F” word. Are we justified in thinking of this phenomenon in such harsh terms?
-Lorne Fitch, P. Biol. Cows and Fish - Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1i2VtYd
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved |
August 2012
Two little girls having a grand time!
#bowriver #flyfishing
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
SSRP Info Night - 7pm, Dec 17 at CAOC
SSRP Info Night
7PM - Tue, Dec 17th
at Calgary Area Outdoor Council
Learn more about the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan.
The Calgary Area Outdoor Council is holding an evening of information sharing about the SSRP.
What's good about it? What are the problems? How does it affect the outdoor community?
Katie Morrison (CPAWS), and Al Black (Climbers Access Society) will be making presentations and fielding questions about the SSRP.
The Calgary Area Outdoor Council wants to hear your views on the SSRP so that we may feed into the process. Our aim is to ensure the collective voice of the outdoor community is heard as this important plan nears its final implementation.
The deadline for public consultation is on January 15th and CAOC will be using information gathered this evening before submitting our position.
More info from ESRD: http://bit.ly/IR1gkN
and CPAWS: http://bit.ly/1diVRMq
CPAWS Southern Alberta
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Fin Chasers Magazine - Dec 2013 #4
Fin Chasers Magazine - Dec 2013 #4
Check out 'Home Waters' by Bow River fly fisher Paula Shearer.
Also, contributions from Matt Harris, April Vokey, Clemens Ratschan,
Hank Patterson, Stephan Gian Dombaj, Tarquin Millington-Drake and Barry
Ord Clarke.
Read here: http://www.fin-chasers.com/#1
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved 2012 |
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Michelle clowning with shuttle client.
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
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| Photo, Mike Deal, Winnipeg Free Press |
Scientists go fishing for old documents
by Mary Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 05, 2014
Fish and water scientists turned into scavengers this week, descending on a soon-to-be-closed federal library to salvage hundreds of books, journals and rare reports that are about to be tossed.
The library at the Freshwater Institute on the University of Manitoba campus is one of seven slated for closure by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/18oM2wN
Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
By Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, Dec 09, 2013
The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision-making.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/IN16KB
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles |
Triple-decker pontoon boat trailer
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved |
August 2012
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
WestJet Christmas Miracle
No, this isn't fly fishing. Yes, it's actually a commercial. But we think you'll like it.
Gifts for lucky passengers keep on giving for WestJet
By Paula Simons, Calgary Herald/Edmonton Journal,
December 9, 2013
WestJet has staged a Christmas miracle for some of its
passengers — a holiday stunt that has proved a triumph of social media
marketing.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/JcMuFC
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Seaso
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Monday, December 9, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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The 'Wild Goose' - one of the most attractive wooden boats on the Bow!
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Sunday, December 8, 2013
The failure of flood control
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| Photo, Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA |
More from Kevin Van Tighem, who writes: “Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them...”
The failure of flood control
It's hard to think of a name more fitting than Watertown for a city routinely doused by a river, but that was small comfort this past April to citizens of the South Dakota town as they sandbagged their homes and watched water rise in their basements.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1bqdcjB
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