White House, EPA approve changes to mining buffer zone rule

Despite opposition from the Governors of Tennessee and Kentucky, the Bush administration has just given the official green light to mountain top coal mining operations to bury streams with their mine debris.

The White House and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed off
Tuesday on plans to revoke parts of a key water quality rule that could
have been used to limit the burial of streams by mountaintop removal
coal mining operations.

Approval by EPA and the White House Office of Management and Budget
paved the way for Interior Department officials to finalize
industry-backed changes in the 25-year-old stream "buffer zone" rule.

LINK (Via: The Charleston Gazette)

Love life. Go fishing. Care for the planet. Drink wine.

This is the motto of Mark Seymour, a Leverett resident launching his own wine label, Fish Hook Vineyards. Seymour, an avid saltwater fly fisherman and veteran of the wine industry of over 30 years, has partnered with his longtime friend, fellow fisherman and Oregon winemaker Stephen Cary, to make their own seafood-friendly wines - and give back to the planet while they're at it.  LINK   (Via: The Amherst Bulletin)

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Deal of the Day

Patagonia's ultimate synthetic fill parka that can be worn over all layers in extreme cold. Only XL and XXL are available but for you Clydesdales out there this is a screaming deal.

Was $275.00 Now $72.50  LINK

Oregon Salt Lick

Gavin Bush, long time member of the extended Chum family, shows off a mint bright hatchery buck taken 100 yards from the salt. 

NY Coho

Severson, multi specie SOTM entrant, show off another sweatheart from the Salmon in upstate New York.