Spread Creek Dam removal to improve trout habitat

JH News & Guide
By Cory Hatch
September 1, 2010

Just north of Triangle X Ranch and a few miles down a gravel road, a 13-foot-tall, 125-foot-long concrete and metal dam rises from Spread Creek's cobbles. Located just outside Grand Teton National Park and surrounded by national forest, it seems a monstrosity - out of place with the surrounding environment.

The structure is clearly crumbling. Four decades' worth of water has scoured holes in the dam's concrete apron large enough for a tree trunk, or a person, to fit through. The closed metal floodgates leak water through the spillway, and the rickety metal walkway and railing have begun to rust.

Atlantic herring lying low off N.S.

The Chronicle Herald
By John McPhee
Aug 28, 2010

Atlantic herring are known to be the oddballs of the ocean, but their behaviour in recent years even has the experts puzzled.

Weir fishermen in the Bay of Fundy and seiners off the Scotian Shelf are having a good year. But fishermen in southwest Nova Scotia are landing dramatically lower catches of the lucrative oily fish.

Students study gar with Dularge fisherman

Dail Comet
By Nikki Buskey
August 28, 2010

Gore splatters the plywood of Ricky Verrett's makeshift dock on Bayou Dularge as the science gets under way. Verrett fishes for a living, but his expert knowledge of local garfish hotspots and how to pull the fish in efficiently have made him an invaluable partner to researchers from Nicholls State University, who are studying the fish's biology and lifespan.