Where’s Waldo?
One of the great advantages of BAP is resolution. With great resolution you can see almost anything in the river. We have been working to spot trout from the photographs but they are cleverly camouflaged against the bottom. But we can distinguish people fishing in the river. If you look at the lower right [...]
Beyond Trout Part 2: Macrophytes
Welcome to the second installation of our series on ecosystem based management. Today’s post focuses on the rooted aquatic plants known as macrophytes and their impact on the Henry’s Fork. Despite their critical importance to the ecosystem, very little macrophyte research has been conducted since Ruth Shea’s work in the 90′s. MVF is currently using [...]
Beyond Trout
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911 Reestablishing historic trout populations on the Henry’s Fork is a primary objective of the Caldera Restoration Project and our work in Idaho over the past two months, [...]
Water Quality Sampling on the Henrys Fork
Maddie and Annemarie count aquatic bugs downstream from Island Park Dam. On July 23rd I participated in water quality testing on the Henry’s Fork with Marine Ventures and Henry’s Fork Foundation. I have a strong interest in water quality from an internship I took on last spring with the BioSITE program at the Children’s Discovery [...]
New MVF web pages online now!
Joe, McCain and Maddie checking the BAP rig at the Stock Bridge in Harriman State Park, ID. We recently updated the MVF website with a new section describing our aerial photographic work on the Henrys Fork. Included are some sample full resolution datasets from aerial flights in June, 2009. You can click here to view [...]
Lower River Exploration
Conservation work is never easy. The powers in control continue to extract the wealth of the earth through massive irrigation projects and overfishing. We have been pretty busy this summer on the Henrys Fork baselining the watershed from the air – both balloon aerial photography as well as from the Lighthawk Foundation airplane. We just [...]
40 million salmon can’t be wrong…
The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle reports a disturbing story today… One that should shock anyone who has any exposure to hatchery-based trout or salmon fsiheries. There have been great fish tragedies in our time but none like the story of California salmon. Once THE LARGEST salmon run on the West Coast, the [...]
Henrys Fork Sunset Magazine article from 1994….
Understanding how to restore a trout river in decline is not an easy task. It might be easy to get a backhoe and dig out some deeper channels or add logs or boulders to make better habitat. However the Ranch has perplexed locals for decades as to what is causing the decline and how to [...]
