By Paul Hetzler
As many anglers know, trees and trout are closely related. (click here)
Not in a family sense, of course. And not like the way in which tomatoes and fish were briefly married in a 1996 experiment at Oakland, California-based DNA Plant Technology in an attempt to get a frost-tolerant tomato (or possibly a saucy fish.)
NATURE'S ROOM SERVICE
If it weren’t for tree cover, cold-water fish species would not survive in most of the streams they now inhabit.
Forests provide us with many “ecosystem services.
While the term sounds like you can call up Ecosystem Services when camping and order wine delivered to your tent, these services, or gifts, range from the sublime (aesthetic beauty) to the mundane (dollar value of tourism.)
They also include essential things like the production of oxygen, and the removal of airborne particulates.
TOP TO BOTTOM BENEFITS
The impact of extreme storm events is dampened by forests in many ways. The canopy reduces the force at which rain hits the ground, which leads to less water running over the land and more of it seeping into the groundwater....
Considering the relationship between forests and fish, the idea of protecting the forest is a very good one.
February 24, 2017
by Devin Golden
The American Sportfishing Association (click here) and Southwick Associates released the 2017 update of Economic Contributions of Recreational Fishing: U.S. Congressional Districts. The report states America's 46 million anglers have a total economic impact of $115 billion for the United States.
The report, which describes the economic contributions for each state's economy from anglers who live within each district, also includes one-page infographics with economic impacts broken down for all 435 congressional districts and all 50 states....
