Anglers Take A Stand

Anglers out here in the Northwest are supporting a new rule that restores protections for America's headwater streams under the Clean Water Act. Trout Unlimited President & CEO Chris Woods says, "The waters this rule protects are the sources of our nation's coldest, cleanest water. Not only do these waters provide the needed spawning & rearing waters for out trout & salmon, they are the sources of our iconic rivers & streams-they provide the water we all use downstream. The EPSA & the downstream uses of our nation's water." Wood says that the rule doesn't add any new regulations or require any new actions on the part of existing water users. Rather, it simply requires anyone wishing to develop land, build roads or impact small streams to get a permit to do so. The rule restores protections to America's headwater streams that were removed after 2 politically charged Supreme Court decisions in the 2000's. Our Montana anglers are grateful to the Corps, the EPA & the Obama Adminstration for developing the new rule according to Bruce Farling. Farling's the executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited. He says, "The rule protects many headwater spawning streams for wild trout that are the backbone of Montana's $970 million-a-year angling recreational angling economy. Trout Unlimited is the nation's oldest & largest cold water fisheries conservation organization dedicated to conserving, protecting & restoring North America's trout & salmon & their watersheds. See you later this afternoon (Thursday) on the Old Fishing Hole during our Action Packed 5 O'clock News Hour on KSEN/K-96.