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#11
The Gravel Bar / Re: New Unlimited Salmon Steel...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - November 01, 2025, 10:17:28 AMChico Creek Esturary Restoration
A $2 million project to restore esturine habitat conditions and improve fish passage at the mouth of the West Sound's most productive salmon stream.
https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/departments/fisheries/finfish/salmon-recovery/
#12
The Gravel Bar / Re: New Unlimited Salmon Steel...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - November 01, 2025, 10:13:06 AMCalifornia reintroducing salmon by planting 350,000 spring-run Chinook eggs above dam
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) plans to inject 350,000 Chinook salmon eggs into the North Yuba River this fall as the state government looks for new ways to help struggling salmon populations recover.
This is the second year CDFW has taken this approach, collecting eggs fertilized at the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville and then hydraulically injecting them into the river's gravel substrate in November.
The department said the program is a "multiagency, multifaceted effort to bring the state and federally listed threatened species back to its historic coldwater spawning and rearing habitat" that has been blocked by dams for centuries. During the first year, CDFW, the Yuba Water Agency, NOAA Fisheries, and the U.S. Forest Service injected roughly 300,000 fertilized spring-run Chinook salmon eggs in the North Yuba riverbed. In the spring, 42 hatchery-raised adult spring-run Chinook salmon were also released into the river.
https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/california-reintroducing-salmon-by-planting-350-000-spring-run-chinook-eggs-above-dam
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) plans to inject 350,000 Chinook salmon eggs into the North Yuba River this fall as the state government looks for new ways to help struggling salmon populations recover.
This is the second year CDFW has taken this approach, collecting eggs fertilized at the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville and then hydraulically injecting them into the river's gravel substrate in November.
The department said the program is a "multiagency, multifaceted effort to bring the state and federally listed threatened species back to its historic coldwater spawning and rearing habitat" that has been blocked by dams for centuries. During the first year, CDFW, the Yuba Water Agency, NOAA Fisheries, and the U.S. Forest Service injected roughly 300,000 fertilized spring-run Chinook salmon eggs in the North Yuba riverbed. In the spring, 42 hatchery-raised adult spring-run Chinook salmon were also released into the river.
https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/california-reintroducing-salmon-by-planting-350-000-spring-run-chinook-eggs-above-dam
#13
The Gravel Bar / Re: Damn Dams -- Unlimited dam...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - November 01, 2025, 09:56:52 AMPlanning underway for Mayo Mill Dam removal
The multi-year process to remove the Mayo Mill Dam on the Piscataquis River in downtown Dover-Foxcroft has begun.
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The co-managers of the dam removal project, The Nature Conservancy Freshwater Restoration Manager Eileen Bader Hall and Atlantic Salmon Federation Piscataquis River Project Manager Jon Viti, gave an update to the select board during an Oct. 27 meeting.
The two organizations have worked with the town for multiple years.
https://observer-me.com/2025/10/31/news/planning-underway-for-mayo-mill-dam-removal/
The multi-year process to remove the Mayo Mill Dam on the Piscataquis River in downtown Dover-Foxcroft has begun.
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The co-managers of the dam removal project, The Nature Conservancy Freshwater Restoration Manager Eileen Bader Hall and Atlantic Salmon Federation Piscataquis River Project Manager Jon Viti, gave an update to the select board during an Oct. 27 meeting.
The two organizations have worked with the town for multiple years.
https://observer-me.com/2025/10/31/news/planning-underway-for-mayo-mill-dam-removal/
#14
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited bear news
Last post by Woolly Bugger - November 01, 2025, 07:43:06 AM #15
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited it's the water, ...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - October 31, 2025, 10:21:25 AMUtah may be forced to cut water rights if no Colorado River deal is reached
evin Cotner is familiar with the dreaded term "curtailment."
The Price-area hay farmer experiences it naturally as a result of the ongoing drought.
"The water's just not here," Cotner told FOX 13 News in an interview on Thursday.
He has volunteered to fallow some of his farms through a program administered by the Colorado River Authority of Utah. Since he lives along a tributary, he's being compensated to not grow crops on some fields for a couple of years.
"To us, it's a way to help, maybe, and get compensated," Cotner explained.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/colorado-river-collaborative/utah-will-be-forced-to-cut-water-rights-if-no-colorado-river-deal-is-reached
#16
Local Trip Reports / Re: Comeback
Last post by Woolly Bugger - October 30, 2025, 16:11:33 PMsweet, well played 
#17
Local Trip Reports / Comeback
Last post by Onslow - October 30, 2025, 16:00:55 PMThe wet weather jammed up my work schedule. I figured a little juice and dingy water would make for some great catching on this particular stretch the Keith used to frequent. I needed to step away from current events and unplug for a bit.
I was in no hurry to get there. The boots hit the water around 9:30 and called it quits around 1:50.
I believe this river took some hits between 2016 and 2022 due to extreme flooding/warm water. It has returned to how I remember it in 2012 when I first started fishing it.
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Nothing but beech trees. Maples were looking good to and from the destination.
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I had intended to stop at a certain spot, but before doing so, I spotted a sow black bear with her single cub. She had her nose in the air and probably had picked up my scent. I readied my spray just in case things went sideways instead of trying to capture a shot. Mama Bear wasn't terribly large, maybe 275 pounds. The cub was quite small as well, maybe 45-55 pounds. I was expecting a cub to be so small this time of year.
I'd already caught enough fish. It was good to see this stream fishing well.
#18
Warm Water Species / Re: Carp unlimited
Last post by Woolly Bugger - October 30, 2025, 13:45:27 PMGetting ready for Harkers' and Albies, I went to the carp pond, mainly to work on my double haul with the 9 wt. and perhaps catch a carp or two. I was shocked to see that the pond was drained and the repairs to the damn dam were being completed. I was told that the fish had been 'relocated' and would be put back when the pond was filled... no word if any dredging would be done...
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#19
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Nuclear Disaster...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - October 30, 2025, 13:22:29 PMExplainer-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?
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FILE PHOTO: A mushroom cloud rises with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands in this 1946 handout provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. The United States said on April 25, 2014, it was examining lawsuits filed by the Marshall Islands against it and eight other nuclear-armed countries that accuse them of failing in their obligation to negotiate nuclear disarmament. REUTERS/U.S. Library of Congress/Handout via Reuters/File Photo — Handout .
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
How many nuclear weapons tests have there been, why were they stopped - and why would anyone start them again?
THE NUCLEAR AGE
The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945, and then dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to force Japan to surrender in World War Two.
The Soviet Union shocked the West by detonating its first nuclear bomb just four years later, in August 1949.
In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the Soviet Union, according to the United Nations.
Britain carried out 45 tests, France 210 and China 45.
Since the CTBT, 10 nuclear tests have taken place. India conducted two in 1998, Pakistan also two in 1998, and North Korea conducted tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016 (twice) and 2017, according to the United Nations.
The United States last tested in 1992, China and France in 1996 and the Soviet Union in 1990. Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, has never done so.
Russia held nuclear drills last week and has tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and a nuclear-powered torpedo but has not tested a nuclear warhead.
WHY WAS NUCLEAR TESTING ENDED?
Concern mounted about the impact of the tests - above ground, underground and underwater - on human health and the environment.
The impact of the West's testing in the Pacific and of Soviet testing in Kazakhstan and the Arctic was significant on both the environment and the people. Activists say millions of people in both the Pacific and Kazakhstan had their lands contaminated by nuclear testing - and have faced health issues for decades.
By limiting the Cold War bonanza of nuclear testing, advocates said, tensions between Moscow and Washington could be reduced.
The CTBT bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere. It was signed by Russia in 1996 and ratified in 2000. The United States signed the treaty in 1996 but has not ratified it.
In 2023, President Vladimir Putin formally revoked Russia's ratification of the CTBT, bringing his country in line with the United States.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/explainer-nuclear-testing-why-did-it-stop-why-test-and-who-has-nuclear-weapons
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FILE PHOTO: A mushroom cloud rises with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands in this 1946 handout provided by the U.S. Library of Congress. The United States said on April 25, 2014, it was examining lawsuits filed by the Marshall Islands against it and eight other nuclear-armed countries that accuse them of failing in their obligation to negotiate nuclear disarmament. REUTERS/U.S. Library of Congress/Handout via Reuters/File Photo — Handout .
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
How many nuclear weapons tests have there been, why were they stopped - and why would anyone start them again?
THE NUCLEAR AGE
The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945, and then dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to force Japan to surrender in World War Two.
The Soviet Union shocked the West by detonating its first nuclear bomb just four years later, in August 1949.
In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the Soviet Union, according to the United Nations.
Britain carried out 45 tests, France 210 and China 45.
Since the CTBT, 10 nuclear tests have taken place. India conducted two in 1998, Pakistan also two in 1998, and North Korea conducted tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016 (twice) and 2017, according to the United Nations.
The United States last tested in 1992, China and France in 1996 and the Soviet Union in 1990. Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, has never done so.
Russia held nuclear drills last week and has tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and a nuclear-powered torpedo but has not tested a nuclear warhead.
WHY WAS NUCLEAR TESTING ENDED?
Concern mounted about the impact of the tests - above ground, underground and underwater - on human health and the environment.
The impact of the West's testing in the Pacific and of Soviet testing in Kazakhstan and the Arctic was significant on both the environment and the people. Activists say millions of people in both the Pacific and Kazakhstan had their lands contaminated by nuclear testing - and have faced health issues for decades.
By limiting the Cold War bonanza of nuclear testing, advocates said, tensions between Moscow and Washington could be reduced.
The CTBT bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere. It was signed by Russia in 1996 and ratified in 2000. The United States signed the treaty in 1996 but has not ratified it.
In 2023, President Vladimir Putin formally revoked Russia's ratification of the CTBT, bringing his country in line with the United States.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/explainer-nuclear-testing-why-did-it-stop-why-test-and-who-has-nuclear-weapons
#20
The Gravel Bar / Re: Ambler Road Project in Ala...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - October 30, 2025, 10:35:48 AMSign a petition here: https://www.tananachiefs.org/noamblerroad/