Emphasizing the need to protect natural aquatic ecosystems, Kevin Proescholdt, conservation director for Wilderness Watch, responds to a recent op-ed that criticized wilderness advocates for opposing fish poisoning projects in designated wilderness.
Harts Point, located northwest of Monticello just outside Bears Ears National Monument, is being eyed for uranium development by two Canadian companies that say they hold 324 mining claims and permits from the BLM to drill 25 exploratory wells here.
• Wilderness Watch opposes the use of “even gillnets....” False. While we oppose the use of the poison rotenone in Wilderness, my organization is the leading advocate for using gillnets and other nonmotorized, non-poisonous methods to remove fish from naturally fishless wilderness lakes and streams. • “Wilderness Watch had litigated against, and dangerously delayed, rotenone treatment to save native Paiute cutthroat trout.” False. Paiute cutthroat trout occupied pretty much all of its very limited native habitat; the project Wilderness Watch and several allies challenged was aimed at establishing a trout population upstream of its native range and in naturally fishless waters in order to create a new angling opportunity.
The central focus of the 1964 Wilderness Act is “preserving the wilderness character” of the areas Congress designates. It’s hard to imagine wilderness character being preserved by dumping poisons into wilderness waterways that kill all organisms that use gills—fish, amphibians, and even macroinvertebrates, and then stocking these same waterways with an alien fish predator.
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