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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
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Transactions of the Sixth British Columbia Natural Resources Conference, 1953, Victoria, B.C.
Author: Transactions of the Sixth British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
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Category : British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Transactions of the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
Author: Backcasts
Author: Samuel SnyderPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636660X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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“Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”-Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all anglers—the day’s catch—he may as well be speaking to another, deeper accomplishment of the best fishermen and fisherwomen: the preservation of natural resources. Backcasts celebrates this centuries-old confluence of fly fishing and conservation. However religious, however patiently spiritual the tying and casting of the fly may be, no angler wishes to wade into rivers of industrial runoff or cast into waters devoid of fish or full of invasive species like the Asian carp. So it comes as no surprise that those who fish have long played an active, foundational role in the preservation, management, and restoration of the world’s coldwater fisheries. With sections covering the history of fly fishing; the sport’s global evolution, from the rivers of South Africa to Japan; the journeys of both native and nonnative trout; and the work of conservation organizations such as the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited, Backcasts casts wide. Highlighting the historical significance of outdoor recreation and sports to conservation in a collection important for fly anglers and scholars of fisheries ecology, conservation history, and environmental ethics, Backcasts explores both the problems anglers and their organizations face and how they might serve as models of conservation—in the individual trout streams, watersheds, and landscapes through which these waters flow.
Transactions of the Seventh British Columbia Natural Resources Conference, 1954, Victoria, B.C.
Author: Transactions of the Eighth British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
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Category : British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Transactions of the Fifth British Columbia Natural Resources Conference, 1952, Victoria, B.C.
Author: Transactions of the Seventh British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
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Category : British Columbia Natural Resources Conference
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Fish versus Power
Author: Matthew D. EvendenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139452002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores the transnational forces that shaped the river, the changing knowledge and practices of science, and the role of environmental change in shaping environmental debate. The Fraser is the world's most productive salmon river; it is also a large river with enormous waterpower potential. Very few rivers in the developed world have remained undammed. On the Fraser, however, fish - not dams - triumphed, and this book seeks to explain why.
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