Alone in the Wilderness

Treaser for an awesome Documentary - Alone in the Wilderness

A certain part of me really wants to run away to a wild place and live in nature. I don't really want to do it but there is a side of me that longs for it.

Into the wild

A VERY good book about someone running away to the wildness and not really knowing what they were doing. A big budget film is coming out soon about this story.

A slightly Bigger Fish ( well not really a fish )

Killer Whale attacks a seal

One tough fish

Northern pike eats a brown trout

Nope, I won't eat it.

NY Times Article about Bioengineering animals and eating them.

I can't imagine ever willingly eating bio-engineered animals. There is simply too big a chance of unintended side affects, in my opinion. The original unmodified animals have properly feed us humans for thousands of years I really don't see a reasons to change that. The environmental effects are also too dangerous. If a large group of the fast growing salmon were to escape, it's happened numerous times with farm raised salmon, and they were to out compete the native wild salmon but turn out to be sterile? Then we caused the extinction of a species because of arrogance in thinking that we know all there is to know when we plainly don't.

I know I sound like a Luddite but I normally really support technology, I just think that we don't have a good enough handle on bio-tech and the side affects to pursue it int this manner. I'm all for bio-tech in medical uses but not the engineering of new organisms.

A Judge make a good choice

Judge sides with wild salmon

Basically the Bush admin and a bunch of property rights groups ( big time corp farmers who want to remove salmon and steelhead protection so that they can get cheaper and better access to river water, so that they are free to cut down and trees they wish, and finally are free to use any pesticides they wish no matter what the impact on the environment ) were pushing to count fish raised in a hatchery as the same thing as wild born and raised fish. There are numerous problem with this, including the fish being far more likely to catch diseases, the hatchery fish having far weaker instincts, and the wild fish will be out bred by the hatchery fish simply because of sheer numbers.
Hatchery fish have their place, like here in Ohio. The main type of trout we have in Ohio is hatchery raised steelhead and I'm very happy to have the chance to catch them but they aren't replacing a native population of fish in Ohio. This is certainly not the case in the steelhead and salmon's native range. I just hope the appeals judge is as sane as this one was.

Very interesting article on the Enviroment and It's protection

Save SteelHead and Save Ourselves.

One of the reasons I want to become a biologist is to help save and protect speices like the steelhead, Altantic Salmon, and Striped Bass.These amazing animals can only be destroyed though man's action, rather that be the overfishing and poplution or simply not doing anything to help save them now that we have hurt them badly.
The article it's self doesn't have any facts in it but rather sums up rather nicely how I feel about protecting wild fish.