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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

"Steelhead are a form of oceangoing trout endemic to some rivers draining to the Pacific from North America and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula".......Some of the finest Steelhead habitat is found along the Skeena River which flows some 350 miles in a southwesterly direction from its headwaters in northwestern British Columbia to the Pacific near Prince Rupert"........"Along the way, it picks up tributaries that represent a “who’s who” of the world’s most celebrated steelhead fisheries — the Babine, the Bulkley/Morice, the Copper, the Kispiox, the Sustut"............"Some anglers will spend over $7,000 a week to visit fishing lodges on the Skeena’s rivers"..........Why spend a small fortune just to fish for Steelhead?........."Because Steelhead Trout exhibit a general reluctance to eat once they enter fresh water"......... "Unlike the resident fish, these vagrants of oceans and rivers can rarely be fooled by "matching the hatch"........... "Instead, Fly Fishers cast their flies with the hope only to find a fish in a mood to grab the fly out of aggression, frustration, hate, annoyance, or curiosity"..........Steelhead, "a true heavyweight adversary" for Fly Fisherman!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/sports/steelhead.html

The Lure of 

the Steelhead Trout

The beautiful Skeena River
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Path of the Skeena River
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Chris Santella about to release a wild steelhead 
on the Morice River near Houston, 
British Columbia.CreditCreditMike Marcus

Posted by Coyotes, Wolves and Cougars forever at 5:51 PM

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