2012-08-15 An Elegy for the Crowsnest Bull Trout
Wild Lands Advocate article, June 2012, by Lorne Fitch. Fitch laments the loss of this keystone fish species from the Crowsnest system, and wonders whether we have the wisdom to learn from our past mistakes.
Wild Lands Advocate article, June 2012, by Lorne Fitch. Fitch laments the loss of this keystone fish species from the Crowsnest system, and wonders whether we have the wisdom to learn from our past mistakes.
"Bull trout existed for more than a geological epoch there; they slipped through the cracks in our careless world in just one human lifetime and no one paid attention... We don’t know what we lost because our understanding and comprehension of aquatic systems is so rudimentary. We don’t measure, we don’t monitor, and we don’t pay attention. When we don’t pay attention, things go missing."
