Just when you thought I was off my rocker, trying to defend myself as a conservationist, and all the while sounding less like one - this news story caught my attention. Somebody is actually saving the trout who didn't get the word that the canals in Southern Idaho were going to be shut off. Who has the common sense and resources to do something like that? Let me tell you - a partnership between private land owners, Trout Unlimited, and the Nature Conservancy.
From the Idaho Mountain Express:
Every fall, regional canal companies divert the flow of water from irrigation canals, signaling a change in season and stranding thousands of fish, which, naturally, didn't get the memo about the shutoff.
Seeing this, the Hemingway Chapter of Trout Unlimited has established elaborate fish rescue operations, gathering up and escorting the breathless creatures to a permanent home in the Big Wood River.
Today, thousands of those fish are getting along swimmingly in the habitats around the Heart Rock Ranch, where since the fall of 2010, property owners Harry and Shirley Hagey have been engaged in a project that has turned out to be one of the largest earth-moving projects in Idaho, said Trout Unlimited member Bob Law.
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