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...believe that domesticated salmon lack the genetic robustness of wild ones. Environmentalists complain that the planning council is too weak to take on the utilities that have dominated the river for decades. "The fish got what utilities were willing to give them," says Bill Bakke, of the Oregon Trout, a fish-conservation group. Instead of doubling, the number of salmon has continued to decline steadily...
This fatalism was the iron at the core of Paris Trout, Dexter's last novel, which won the National Book Award. Brotherly Love deals with tough guys living brutal lives. Toward the end, in the house of an old man who sells guns, matters go sour during a deal and one man shotguns two others. The old man waits to be shot himself, because that is the way things happen; he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now two lines...
...maybe Peter takes satisfaction in being a dogsbody for the sleazy Michael. In any case, until his story comes to a well-told bad end, he lives detached from himself, an observer. Though Brotherly Love is intentionally a narrower, less spacious novel than Paris Trout, its quality is just as high...
...quest at times seems impossibly romantic, restorationists display a refreshing pragmatism. Rather than demanding that all hydroelectric dams be dynamited, river restorationists insist that power generators install fish ladders and adjust water flows to help salmon and trout reach upstream spawning grounds. Al Steuter, manager of the Nature Conservancy's 20,800- hectare (51,400-acre) Niobrara Valley Preserve in Nebraska, hopes to demonstrate how ranchers can run cattle on restored prairies without destroying them. After all, he asks, "what's the point of restoration if we have to station guards to protect the landscape...
...ranching town of Livingston, about 80 miles north of Yellowstone. Farmers, local ranchers and teenagers were answering a casting call for parts in a movie about fly-fishing, soon to be shot by Robert Redford. The film is sure to entice even more visitors to the state's trout streams, leaving locals even more irked than they already are at the vacation styles of the rich and famous...