Trout Unlimited met in Stamford to talk cleans waters, good people and good beer along the Mill River. Conservation is good conversation. This week, learn what they teach, share and fight for and how you can be part of 300,000 people who support cold, clean water. With 420 local chapters contributing 730,000 volunteer hours, you just might find a place to help and fish with those good people.
Steven Hawley’s “Cracked The Future of Dams In A Hot, Chaotic World” chronicles our dam building history and how it’s time to free our rivers. Every page is a gift if you care about wild waters, trickling tributaries or appreciating nature left in peace.
CRMC’s Potter Pond shell game of last minute Hail Mary’s ignores the will of so many opponents of losing more open water to private business. We have been telling this tale for almost six years and we’re all just as frustrated as when this was proposed without notice to anyone on the pond.
Deep in the brush, enveloped in protective poison ivy, slowing water, amassing mud, encouraging alders to set roots in a stream, a tired wall has prohibited trout passage for nearly one hundred years. Then, Trout Unlimited, RIDEM and Protect RI Brook Trout grabbed loppers and sledgehammers and tore that wall down. The improvement was immediate and frankly, really wonderful.
Boats blocking public access are just as egregious as wealthy weekenders guarding “their” piece of a beach. With this crush of tourism in many coastal communities, people’s laziness or belief their seasonal residence affords them a pass to year round laws, can block others from accessing water. Please, take your boats home.
