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#1
Local Trip Reports / Re: Smith-Continued
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 17:10:17 PMLong drive down to the raptor center on I-77 — I've. Not been down that road in quite a while !
Dropped off the trout for the birds and got some details on storing them for the next trip
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They will take then fresh or frozen. I'll save up several limits before making the next trip!
They may send a photo of them feeding the fish to a bird as I requested.
Dropped off the trout for the birds and got some details on storing them for the next trip
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They will take then fresh or frozen. I'll save up several limits before making the next trip!
They may send a photo of them feeding the fish to a bird as I requested.
#2
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by trout-r-us - Today at 15:01:37 PMQuote from: Onslow on Today at 09:30:45 AMJust when I thought I could bust for fishing today, this letter is hand delivered by town management Sunday.
Now we're guilted into entertaining peeps from the hinterlands riding on haybuggies.
Enjoy!
The joy of small town living.
Any minor inconvenience is more than offset by not having to contend with the masses of asses in the big city.
#3
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Onslow - Today at 09:30:45 AMJust when I thought I could bust for fishing today, this letter is hand delivered by town management Sunday.
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Now we're guilted into entertaining peeps from the hinterlands riding on haybuggies.
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Now we're guilted into entertaining peeps from the hinterlands riding on haybuggies.
#4
The Gravel Bar / Re: Sign of the apocalypse or ...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 08:24:51 AMU.S. Rate of Suicide by Firearm Reaches Record Level
Gun suicides increased from prepandemic rates in all racial and ethnic groups, but the degree of change differed drastically.
The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it more than 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate increased by more than 10 percent in 2022 compared with 2019, and in some racial and ethnic groups, the rise was significantly steeper, especially among Native Americans. Overall, about 27,000 of 50,000 suicides were carried out by gun in 2022.
Federal researchers involved in the analysis suggested that the coronavirus pandemic might have exacerbated many of the known risk factors for suicide generally, which include social isolation, strained relationships, and drug and alcohol disorders. At the same time, outside experts noted, the increased rates also correlated with another trend seen during the acute phase of the pandemic: rising gun sales.
"When there are more firearms, there are more firearm suicides," said Michael Anestis, the executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.
The rate of suicide by any method has increased by one-third in the past two decades, according to federal data. More than half of those now involve firearms, the report said, a figure that translates to about one every 20 minutes.
On the flip side, more than half of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides.
To examine recent trends, federal researchers at the C.D.C.'s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control compiled and analyzed demographic and mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and the Census Bureau. (Statistics from 2022, the most recent available data, are still considered preliminary.)
They found that the firearm suicide rate in 2022 (8.1 per 100,000) was the highest level since at least 1968, the earliest year on record in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Suicide rates have increased across all racial and ethnic groups since 2019, but the degree of change differed drastically. American Indian and Alaska Native people, for example, saw the sharpest spike: a 66 percent increase in the rate of firearm suicides from 2019 to 2022 (to 10.6 from 6.4 per 100,000). The rate among Black people increased by 42 percent (to 5.3 from 3.8 ), and among Hispanic and Latino people by 28 percent (to 3.3 from 2.5). Asian and Pacific Island people saw firearm suicide rates increase by about 10 percent (to 1.9 from 1.7).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/health/suicide-guns-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.k5qR.nAl72kwVwyEk&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
Gun suicides increased from prepandemic rates in all racial and ethnic groups, but the degree of change differed drastically.
The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it more than 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate increased by more than 10 percent in 2022 compared with 2019, and in some racial and ethnic groups, the rise was significantly steeper, especially among Native Americans. Overall, about 27,000 of 50,000 suicides were carried out by gun in 2022.
Federal researchers involved in the analysis suggested that the coronavirus pandemic might have exacerbated many of the known risk factors for suicide generally, which include social isolation, strained relationships, and drug and alcohol disorders. At the same time, outside experts noted, the increased rates also correlated with another trend seen during the acute phase of the pandemic: rising gun sales.
"When there are more firearms, there are more firearm suicides," said Michael Anestis, the executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.
The rate of suicide by any method has increased by one-third in the past two decades, according to federal data. More than half of those now involve firearms, the report said, a figure that translates to about one every 20 minutes.
On the flip side, more than half of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides.
To examine recent trends, federal researchers at the C.D.C.'s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control compiled and analyzed demographic and mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and the Census Bureau. (Statistics from 2022, the most recent available data, are still considered preliminary.)
They found that the firearm suicide rate in 2022 (8.1 per 100,000) was the highest level since at least 1968, the earliest year on record in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Suicide rates have increased across all racial and ethnic groups since 2019, but the degree of change differed drastically. American Indian and Alaska Native people, for example, saw the sharpest spike: a 66 percent increase in the rate of firearm suicides from 2019 to 2022 (to 10.6 from 6.4 per 100,000). The rate among Black people increased by 42 percent (to 5.3 from 3.8 ), and among Hispanic and Latino people by 28 percent (to 3.3 from 2.5). Asian and Pacific Island people saw firearm suicide rates increase by about 10 percent (to 1.9 from 1.7).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/health/suicide-guns-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.k5qR.nAl72kwVwyEk&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
#5
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 08:03:20 AMThree American Climbers Solve the 'Last Great Problem in the Himalayas'
Scaling Mount Jannu's north face without fixed ropes or oxygen was "the greatest climb ever," one expert said, far more difficult than reaching the summit of Everest.
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Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world's biggest, sheerest rock walls.
The void below them was 10,000 feet of thin black air. Above them, within reach, was something most people can only imagine.
"I know we still have a lot to do," Alan Rousseau said to his two fellow climbers. "But I feel like we just did something cool."
The next day, Rousseau, Matt Cornell and Jackson Marvell — little known outside of climbing circles, for the moment — stood at Jannu's summit. Before them were the white tips of other major peaks, including Everest and Kangchenjunga.
Continue Reading at the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/climbing-jannu-north-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.LqFR.fQlkgBdFSIo2&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
Scaling Mount Jannu's north face without fixed ropes or oxygen was "the greatest climb ever," one expert said, far more difficult than reaching the summit of Everest.
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Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world's biggest, sheerest rock walls.
The void below them was 10,000 feet of thin black air. Above them, within reach, was something most people can only imagine.
"I know we still have a lot to do," Alan Rousseau said to his two fellow climbers. "But I feel like we just did something cool."
The next day, Rousseau, Matt Cornell and Jackson Marvell — little known outside of climbing circles, for the moment — stood at Jannu's summit. Before them were the white tips of other major peaks, including Everest and Kangchenjunga.
Continue Reading at the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/climbing-jannu-north-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.LqFR.fQlkgBdFSIo2&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
#6
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Salmon / Steelhe...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 07:54:34 AMThere's a crisis in the Yukon River
When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the thousands.
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But after rebuilding her sled dog team as an adult, Potts-Joseph, a member of the Han Gwich'in tribe, had to turn to store-bought dog food. The river that was once renowned for its salmon doesn't have enough to offer anymore.
"We haven't been able to fish for a number of years," she said as her dogs yelped outside her home in Eagle Village, close to the Yukon near the border with Canada.
Continue reading at the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3sUnM8i
When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the thousands.
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But after rebuilding her sled dog team as an adult, Potts-Joseph, a member of the Han Gwich'in tribe, had to turn to store-bought dog food. The river that was once renowned for its salmon doesn't have enough to offer anymore.
"We haven't been able to fish for a number of years," she said as her dogs yelped outside her home in Eagle Village, close to the Yukon near the border with Canada.
Continue reading at the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3sUnM8i
#7
Local Trip Reports / Re: Smith-Continued
Last post by Woolly Bugger - December 03, 2023, 22:20:39 PM#23 - 104, gas $2.96 close to 70 and partly cloudy.
A few years back, before the troubling times, I saw a post about the Raptor Center asking anglers to provide fresh fish to feed their fish-loving birds. At the time I thought that I could benefit the Smith River by harvesting some of the pune trout in the keeper range between 7 and 10 inches. But it was a low priority and I never followed up. Fast forward to last week when I fired off some emails to see if the center was still in need of some fresh fish for rehabbing birds of prey. A few days later I got a reply in the affirmative. With that in mind I set out today to cull some trout.
The weather was supposed to be cloudy with some rain and unseasonably warm, close to 70. I was hoping that there would be a reasonably good bwo or midge hatch. The skies cleared up by the time I got to the lot. One guy was leaving and a pair of young fly fishermen that were driving the stickered up Antique Tracker were headed back in. They had been down at the "end of the trail" and were planning to fish back up from the bottom of the field. I headed down below to the Big Pine Hole.
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Fresh out of BRFFF stickers, I left a DSFK to add to their collection.
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It took a while bit. I finally landed a legal-size trout, bonked it on its head and placed it on ice in the cooler. It was getting late in the afternoon, and I was worried that I wouldn't get my limit of trout today. Bugs, including midges were not to be seen and only an occasional trout came to the surface. I covered so water and managed to get two more on ice. A couple were undersized, and one was over.
I began to work my way back up and stopped at the Left-hand pool where another angler had stepped in. Martin, from Martinsville was fishing streamers without much luck. He moved on up to the flat water to give dry flies a chance. He has been fishing the river since he was a boy and recalled the old "opening day, when 100s of angler would line the banks waiting for the start of the season.
I stepped in and caught nothing with a dry fly but switched to a wet and swung up a couple more.
Last chance at Sally's and I got creeled number six. As I admired the sunset I heard the song of an Eastern Screech Owl.
It was after five o'clock and the sun was setting so I headed out.
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Martin and his son, Jackson came out shortly afterwards and we chatted in the parking lot before I took off headed home.
I hope to drop off the fish at the raptor center tomorrow.
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#8
The Gravel Bar / Re: Movie Thread.
Last post by Woolly Bugger - December 02, 2023, 13:04:48 PMcoming to Netflix in January!
#9
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Salmon / Steelhe...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - December 02, 2023, 12:09:12 PM #10
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Salmon / Steelhe...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - December 02, 2023, 11:48:49 AMFeds consider removing Snake River dams in leaked agreement with plaintiffs in lawsuit
Federal scientists say there is a high likelihood of extinction for 13 Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead runs without immediate attention
The Biden administration and federal agencies are prepared to remove four lower Snake River dams to save imperiled salmon species, according to a leaked proposal among parties in a federal lawsuit and the administration's environmental council.
Republican representatives in the Northwest, as well as some electric utilities, are not pleased about the proposed agreement.
The willingness to consider removing the dams and to invest at least $1 billion during the next decade in habitat restoration and alternative energy development on tribal lands in the Columbia Basin was revealed in a leaked 34-page proposed agreement of commitments by the federal government to save endangered Columbia Basin fish. It was first reported by the online news site Clearing Up on Tuesday and then released Wednesday by Republican lawmakers.
The Snake River is the main tributary of the Columbia River, flowing from Idaho and eastern Washington into Oregon. The four dams provide irrigation and emissions-free hydropower for nearby communities, but they have also contributed to the near extinction of 13 salmon and steelhead species that return to the Columbia Basin from the Pacific Ocean to spawn, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Oregon congressman Cliff Bentz, a Republican who opposes removing the dams, joined four other state Republican congressional representatives from Idaho and Washington in writing to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, asking for clarity on some of the proposed actions – which include the possibility of removing the Snake River dams – and where replacement power would come from.
"It is imperative that our constituents, whose livelihoods depend on the Columbia River system, have a comprehensive understanding of this document's contents," they wrote, "so they can anticipate and prepare for the wide-ranging impacts that will inevitably be felt across the region should the commitments detailed in this document be realized."
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/11/30/feds-consider-removing-snake-river-dams-in-leaked-agreement-with-northwest-states-tribes/
Federal scientists say there is a high likelihood of extinction for 13 Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead runs without immediate attention
The Biden administration and federal agencies are prepared to remove four lower Snake River dams to save imperiled salmon species, according to a leaked proposal among parties in a federal lawsuit and the administration's environmental council.
Republican representatives in the Northwest, as well as some electric utilities, are not pleased about the proposed agreement.
The willingness to consider removing the dams and to invest at least $1 billion during the next decade in habitat restoration and alternative energy development on tribal lands in the Columbia Basin was revealed in a leaked 34-page proposed agreement of commitments by the federal government to save endangered Columbia Basin fish. It was first reported by the online news site Clearing Up on Tuesday and then released Wednesday by Republican lawmakers.
The Snake River is the main tributary of the Columbia River, flowing from Idaho and eastern Washington into Oregon. The four dams provide irrigation and emissions-free hydropower for nearby communities, but they have also contributed to the near extinction of 13 salmon and steelhead species that return to the Columbia Basin from the Pacific Ocean to spawn, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Oregon congressman Cliff Bentz, a Republican who opposes removing the dams, joined four other state Republican congressional representatives from Idaho and Washington in writing to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, asking for clarity on some of the proposed actions – which include the possibility of removing the Snake River dams – and where replacement power would come from.
"It is imperative that our constituents, whose livelihoods depend on the Columbia River system, have a comprehensive understanding of this document's contents," they wrote, "so they can anticipate and prepare for the wide-ranging impacts that will inevitably be felt across the region should the commitments detailed in this document be realized."
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/11/30/feds-consider-removing-snake-river-dams-in-leaked-agreement-with-northwest-states-tribes/
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