FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RepYourWater Surpasses Goal of Donating $250K to Conservation Partners Erie, CO (September 1, 2020) – RepYourWater has always exemplified their values by giving a minimum of 3% of every sale to their nonprofit conservation partners, such as local chapters of Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and Wild…
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Call to Action, The Time to Act is NOW!
Craig Mathews This article was originally published on Craig’s blog, Yellowstone Conservation and Fly Fishing with Craig Mathews. I will be posting and sharing more articles from Fly Fishing Climate Alliance Members about why they are acting on climate change, so stay tuned. Special thanks to Craig for his leadership and for writing such an…
Protecting What We Love by Taking Action on Climate Change
Rick Crawford I was introduced to fly fishing in 2008 while working on a guest ranch in Wyoming and immediately fell in love with the sport. You could even say fly fishing healed me in some ways, but I believe that’s because fly fishing expanded my understanding, appreciation and respect for nature. Whether the fish…
The Sustainable Angler Podcast: Wil Flack of BelizeFly
Rick Crawford In this episode of The Sustainable Angler, I inerview Wil Flack of BelizeFly and we talk about everything from catching the travel bug and how Wil sailed all over the world; environmental threats to our fisheries such as climate change, plastic pollution, and in Belize, gill nets; and also some success stories such…
Trout Unlimited Releases Climate Change Survey Results
Rick Crawford Trout Unlimited just released their Climate Change Survey and the results are clear. If you are in the fly fishing industry, your customers care about the climate change impact on trout. What’s also clear is that anglers want climate action. Here are the results: “More than 85 percent of TU member respondents think…
The Sustainable Angler Podcast: Fly Fishing Climate Alliance
Rick Crawford In this episode of The Sustainable Angler Podcast, I interview Fly Fishing Climate Alliance Members, Corinne & Garrison Doctor from Rep Your Water, Tom Fernandez from Tailwater Lodge, Dave McCoy from Emerald Water Anglers and Kyle Schaefer from Soul Fly Outfitters. In the summer of 2019, I first started pitching the idea of…
