Feb 25, 2021
Ali Bair has managed to wrangle the lifestyle so many of us want -- cobbling together a career that matches our lifestyle. Ali is a fly-fishing guide in Colorado during the summers and works as a filmmaker in the off-season. This week we're talking about guide-life, the Covid fly-fishing boom, and how thinking beyond...
Feb 18, 2021
What exactly do fish do all winter under the ice? It's a surprisingly ambiguous question. Almost everything we know about fish comes from studying them in warm weather. Aquatic Ecologist Bailey McMeans joins us to talk about what fish are up to in the depth of winter. Did you know fish brains are actually bigger in the...
Feb 11, 2021
This week Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson introduced an infrastructure proposal to remove the lower Snake River dams. It's a move the conservation community has been working towards for decades. The four dams on the lower Snake impede salmon and steelhead migration. In the farthest reaches of the watershed, runs have all...
Feb 4, 2021
Brianne Lauro had a very specific idea of who she wanted to be, professionally, when she left the island of Hawaii to study fisheries management on the Mainland. But the deeper she got into her studies, the more she realized that her family's culture of knowing the sea was also science... so why wasn't it being...