Conservation & Watershed Protection | Current Flow State Fly Fishing

A wall labeled 'GUIDES' holds approximately 100 handmade coffee mugs arranged in horizontal rows. Each mug is hung by its handle and features a name, forming a colorful mosaic.

Conservation

Making it

Where can you hang your mug on the wall?

Pheasant Tail Simplicity

Talking Pheasant Tail Simplicity with Craig Mathews

From tenkara-wielding biker gangs to roadkill feather ghouls to Yvon Chouinard's "stroke": A conversation with fly angling icon Craig Mathews never disappoints. Hear how Pheasant Tail Simplicity is creating a new generation of fly tiers, observation as the key to angling, and much, much more.

Safety

Seeing salmon, seeing snakes, and tying simple flies

Facial recognition, but for fish, our first buzzworm of the year, and a new PCC fly-tying class for Fall Term

A salmon swims into a viewing tank and is tracked by a faint white computer-generated line and surrounded by a bounding box with its ID, species name, and confidence score percentage

Environment

Salmon Vision: The AI revolution comes to salmon conservation

Bringing the power of artificial intelligence to bear on monitoring anadromous salmon populations for faster and more efficient counts, toward more resilient watersheds

A lab-grown block of salmon sits in the middle of a white plate, with curiously rounded edges.

Conservation

Salmon without fish: Lab-grown seafood earns FDA approval, and a spot on the menu at Portland's Kann

With recently-granted FDA approval and a summer slot on the menu at Portland hotspot Kann, lab-grown salmon is in the spotlight. I talked with Justin Kolbeck, co-founder of cultivated seafood startup Wildtype.

Conservation

Leaders: Wisdom never expires

It's the June edition of Leaders, our links roundup, featuring the big public lands battle, the wisdom of guides and land-watchers, gear reviews, technique primers, and more.