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Environment
12:28 pm
Tue November 2, 2010

Trout Unlimited launching effort to protect Rogue River watershed

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Rogue River
Credit Trout Unlimited
Fisherman casts his line in the Rogue River near Rockford.
Rogue River
Credit Trout Unlimited
The Rogue River near where it empties into the Grand River north of Grand Rapids.
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Efforts to protect and restore a cold water fishery north of Grand Rapids could serve as an example for the nation.

Fishermen know the Rogue River best for its spring and winter steelhead runs through Rockford. National coldwater conservation group Trout Unlimited also wants to protect habitat for the brook and rainbow trout that live there. So it designated the watershed as its newest "home river."

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Environment
11:03 am
Fri August 27, 2010

Throwing money at the Asian Carp problem

Carp caught in Lake Calumet
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Asian Carp caught in Lake Calumet. The first one caught in the Great Lakes system.
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The Associated Press reports that The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Great Lakes Commission to help it find ways to stop the invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

The fish started make their way up the Mississippi River system more than ten years ago after they escaped from fish farm ponds in the south. They were imported to control parasites in the ponds. 

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