Canoeists Hunt for Trash in San Joaquin River: Volunteers Fish Out Half a Ton, but 'Big One' Eludes Them.
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By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 10--Tom and Helen Templeton heaved the "big one" out of the San Joaquin River on Saturday afternoon -- a metal shopping cart basket encrusted with river slime.
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.
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By HARDIE, Anne  Farmers are often blamed for polluting the waterways, but along the Sherry River they're banding together to improve the environment and the image of farming. Anne Hardie talks with a group that is focused on cleaning up its river.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 11--When David Moreno looks around, he sees all the evidence of an illegal dump.
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Sarah and Tom Huston worry their days of leisurely casting fishing lines off a shaded dock in Roosevelt Lake are numbered. The Arizona lake, about 110 miles northeast of Phoenix, is now just 30 percent full, local rangers say.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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By Howard W. French  Where as many 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea stare glumly at reminders of their loss.
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Fishermen out on the state's most treasured salmon and trout rivers this week may see a crew of fishermen from Japan - fishing for keepers, as well as great film footage.
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An ambitious deal calling for the removal of four hydroelectric dams to restore struggling salmon runs has been forged among farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies battling over scarce water in the region.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 18--Hunters and fishermen can become highly motivated environmentalists when habitat for game is threatened.
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By ALLEN THOMAS  CATHLAMET - A Columbia River commercial fisherman has been sentenced to 160 hours of community service, fined almost $2,400 and lost his vessel and nets after pleading guilty to having six endangered wild spring chinook salmon and one oversize sturgeon.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM  SANTA CLARITA -- Local water suppliers are urging conservation as summer approaches in this driest year on record -- and as the region's main water supply is reduced to a trickle because of a threatened fish 300 miles away.
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A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat.
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Water dammed for more than half a century will be returned to the San Joaquin River by 2009 in one of the West's largest river restoration projects, according to a settlement filed Wednesday.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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By Will Elliott  The sweep is on.  Volunteers will be scouring shorelines in a clean-up effort to beautify and make more functional waterways around Western New York.
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By Anita Stackhouse-Hite, The Porterville Recorder, Calif.  Jun. 19--TULE RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- The Tule River Natural Resources department struck a heavy blow for farmers and ranchers Monday in the fight against noxious weeds on the reservation and in the Central Valley.