Weekend headline sharing plus 2 cents
I came across a few interesting outdoors related headlines this weekend. Here is the run down:
- Utah’s exotic species: The good, the bad and the ugly – The Salt Lake Tribune – This article covers several of the numerous introduced species to Utah – some loved and some not so much. Of they ones they list I am most annoyed by starlings, burbot, quagga and zebra mussels, and tamarisk. A couple of trees they didn’t list, but drive me nuts is the are chinese elms and sumacs; they are nearly impossible to kill. It strikes me as a bit hypocritical to pick and and choose which non-native species we tolerate. In just about every case on the list, I would be just as happy with the native counterpart in sport. Bonneville cutthroat trout are the native trout in Utah and they are fun to catch on the fly. I don’t know if I would miss brown or rainbow trout if they were never introduced but hard to imagine. I know that bighorn sheep were once abundant in the mountains here so not sure why they favored bringing goats in instead of recovering sheep.
- Man catches carp the weight of Kylie Minogue – The Telegraph – Perhaps the best written headline of the weekend. I would like a to catch a fish that could be measured to a popular celebrity, perhaps the size of someone like Meatloaf or David Crosby. Anyway that is one MONSTER carp. Looks like something from an episode of River Monsters or Hooked.
- Utah Field Guide: Bonneville Cisco – Roughin’ It Outdoors on KUTV 2 – A little feature on a fish found only in Utah’s Bear Lake. A smelt-like remnant of the ancient inland sea that covered the region, Lake Bonneville.
- Dirty air has Utahns fleeing – Deseret News – Not my favorite because it is cool, just sick of the dirty air around here in our mountain home. I can barely even see the mountains today it is so dirty out there. Time to move to the country. Yuck.
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