News From Big Bend Pool

In 1992, poachers dynamited the Big Bend Pool on Steamboat Creek, killing many fish on the river’s most important spawning tributary, and threatening the long-term viability of the river’s wild fish stock. The Foundation led an effort to raise a reward to lead to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. and acquired high-tech monitoring equipment to help catch and successfully prosecute poachers. Each year since 1992, the Foundation has funded a guardian to stay at the pool from May until the end of November.

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 4

HATCHERIES, FISH FARMS, AND WILD PACIFIC SALMON POPULATIONS Fourteen years ago, the National Research Council—the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences—in Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest (National Academy Press, 1996), says on page 11...

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 5

ETHICS OF FLY ANGLING FOR STEELHEAD Introduction This essay is not being written to preach or to anger anglers—I also choose to angle and to some degree this choice has a negative influence on the steelhead I encounter.  These are simply some angling issues that I...

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 6

2010 Season Summary Placitas, New Mexico March 3, 2011 Dear friends of the wild summer steelhead of Steamboat Creek, Hello from the valley of the Rio Grande River.  I trust you are all well and in good spirits.  Maggie and I are doing quite well and recently made a...

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 7

Jan Cummings and Maggie among rocks containing dinosaur fossils in New Mexico, a rough long hike from the nearest negotiable road. SUMMARY OF 2010/2011 WINTER AND FIRST MONTH OF THE 2011 SEASON AT BIG BEND POOL Placitas, New Mexico July 5, 2011 Friends of  the wild...

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 9

OLD TRUCK, TAKE CARE AND GO WELL Truck at the pool on July 13th, 2006 "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it." old truck folk wisdom   I have read in a very interesting book that two photons on the opposite sides of the universe influence each other to some degree...

News from Big Bend Pool pt. 10

REFLECTIONS My apologies for the denseness of this writing. Sunlight comes to quite different elevations on the northwest and—from my Perch—the far bank of the pool because of the gap the cold tributary creek has over millennia cut in the ridge forming the southeast...