Anglers Fund

Hoback

While known more for work in the rafting and kayaking community, American Rivers and its Anglers Fund initiative puts fishing and habitat preservation first. Its focus includes: blasting outdated dams, protecting rivers through Blue Trails and advocacy programs, and working with power companies to improve hydro operations—virtually all of it benefitting fishing.

Here’s a glimpse of win-wins from the Anglers Fund’s latest Feb. 2013 report:

• Gas lease buy-outs on the Hoback River in WY, supported with listings as a “Most Endangered River” in 2011 and 2012
• Beating an ill-conceived dam ballot initiative in Aspen
• Two dams removed in two days in NC
• 15 dams removed in New England, and progress on the Penobscot with a planned timeframe for the Veazie Dam removal this summer
• Opposing a Bureau of Reclamation feasibility report on raising Shasta Dam in CA, which would result in flooding miles of the McCloud River
• Yakima protection introduced by Washington’s new governor

In previous years, western Wyoming’s Hoback River had climbed from #7 to #5 on America’s Most Endangered Rivers® list due to industrial-scale gas drilling threats. Last fall the Trust for Public Land entered into an agreement with Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) to purchase oil and gas leases on 58,000 acres of environmentally sensitive land located near the headwaters. The Hoback has since been delisted.

Tom Bie

Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

Category: Daily DrakeBy Tom Bie February 14, 2013

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Author: Tom Bie

Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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