Why, why, why do they do that?
Brandon and I are doing the final packing for our trip to Patagonia and northern Argentina. We are on the search for native fish and their habitats, particularly the golden dorado up North on the Rio Parana. I saw my favorite native fish, the cutthroat trout, feeding on the surface last July on the Blacktail [...]
South American Atlantic Forest
We will be heading to Argentina Mesopotamia this week. The whole South America gets bigger and bigger as I do more research about the area. On first look, it is just a place to fish and catch golden dorado. Then you realize that the dorado live in a place called the Esteros Del Ibera – [...]
Deep or shallow ecology…
Is your ecology deep or shallow? Do you think the future of the planet can done through shallow ecological actions or does it require deep ones? This concept is from the late Arne Naess who passed away in January 2009 at 96. I was first introduced to him by a book “Welfare Ranching” which was [...]
Rodeo Beach from Google Maps
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This is a test…
Old military barracks at Rodeo Beach shot with 10.5 degree fisheye lens. First is 400px and second is 800 pix from picasa. From Rodeo Beach 021909 From Rodeo Beach 021909
Resource Extraction in Hawaii
The photo is from the Michigan Carbon Works, a Detroit charcoal fertilizer manufacturer from 1880. And yes those are buffalo skulls. More than anyone could imagine ever on this planet. The picture comes from a book I am reading – American Earth – Environmental Writing since Thoreau. Pretty awesome book that covers the history [...]
Midway Revisited…
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Birds got it made…
Part of preparing for Patagonia has been to do some background work on the different places we will go. I was checking into the Valdez Pennisula and found a link that lead me to Birdlife International. This is a non-profit with an operating budget of around $20M a year and they have an incredible website. [...]
Longliners at work…
Some footage from the fish auction two weeks ago in Hono. What do you think?
Heading to Patagonia
Just wanted everyone to know we are heading South to Buenos Aires on Tuesday and will be leaving there for Esquel for the first of the four weeks in Argentina. Brandon and I are going with Barrett Mattison who runs FarAway Fly Fishing along with Evan Joes, Nico and Alex Trochine. We fished with Barrett [...]
Bad karma in the islands…
I just returned from 2 weeks in the Pacific spending 10 days on Midway Atoll and the first 4 days on the island of Oahu. We got up early one morning to go to the local fish auction (i.e. fish slaughterhouse) and then had a tour of the longline fleet conducted by WESPAC chairman (and [...]
