Today we have a special edition of the Destination Angler Podcast on a very important issue affecting our cold-water fisheries – climate change.   Like many of you, over the past few years, I’ve been watching the news and hearing more and more about our climate.  No matter where you stand on man-made or natural, it’s hard to ignore things seem to be warming up, especially this past summer, which was the hottest summer on record.   

As I began to look into this I came across a report on the Impact of Global Warming on Trout in the Interior West that 50% of cutthroat trout habitat will be gone by 2080 if nothing is done. Can you imagine a world where half of our Cutthroat trout habitat is gone?   

To help us better understand climate change, our guests are Helen Neville, Senior Scientist, and Sara Porterfield, Water Policy Associate with Trout Unlimited.  We debunk fact from fiction, the impact of our warming climate on our cold-water fisheries, and most importantly what we can do about it. 

With Host, Steve Haigh

Climate Change Resources:

• Ten Strategies for Climate Resilience in the Colorado River Basin

• The Yale Climate Communication page, which provides interactive maps that can be parsed in myriad ways to explore public perception of climate change based on their annuals surveys:  https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I report, Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis, which was just released:  https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/
• TU National Leadership Climate Change Working Group website, which has recordings and slides of that overview talk I created for them:  https://www.tu.org/get-involved/volunteer-tacklebox/council-leader-resources/national-leadership-council/nlc-conservation-workgroups/climate-change-workgroup/
• TU Climate Change take action page:  https://www.tu.org/climate/
• Citizen’s Climate Lobby, whose Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R> 2307) TU is supporting among other national policies.  They have local chapters, national meetings, D.C. advocacy days, and sorts of resources that complement TU’s work on the issue:  https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
• TU’s Western Water 101 (blog & podcast series)  
• Miller Creek blog (BDAs in burned area)
• Brad Udall doesn’t have a website, but this post from John Fleck links to some good work he did with Brad
• Impact of Global Warming on Trout in the Interior West by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Montana TU

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Comments & Suggestions:  host, Steve Haigh, email [email protected]

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Recorded September 30, 2021.  Episode 50.

Music on the show by A Brother’s Fountain, “Hitch Hike-Man”.   

Podcast edited by Podcast Volume  https://www.podcastvolume.com/