Table of Contents
Foreword Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited ix
Prologue xv
Chapter 1 First Cast-Longnose Gar, Lower Potomac River, Fletcher's Cove 1
Chapter 2 Striped Bass and Bluefish, North Atlantic, Cape Cod 13
Chapter 3 Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass, and Muskellunge, St. Croix National Wild and Scenic River 27
Chapter 4 Brook Trout, Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania 39
Chapter 5 Guadalupe Bass, Llano River, Texas 49
Chapter 6 Apache Trout, White Mountains, Arizona 55
Chapter 7 Gila Trout, Gila Wilderness Area, New Mexico 63
Chapter 8 Rio Grande Cutthroat, Pecos Strain, Jack's Creek, New Mexico | Rio Grande Strain, Columbine Creek, New Mexico 75
Chapter 9 Guadalupe Bass, San Marcos River, Texas 87
Chapter 10 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, Pyramid Lake, Nevada 97
Chapter 11 Guadalupe Bass, Nueces River in the Texas Hill Country 113
Chapter 12 Colorado River Cutthroat Trout, Yampa River Watershed, Northern Colorado 121
Chapter 13 Greenback Cutthroat Trout, Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Northern Colorado 137
Chapter 14 Bear River and Colorado River Cutthroat Trout, East Fork Bear River and Middle Fork Blacks Fork River 149
Chapter 15 Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Wheeler Creek, Utah | Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout, Raft River Mountains, Utah 163
Chapter 16 Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Middle Fork Salmon River, Dagger Falls, River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho 179
Chapter 17 Bluegill and Other Sunfish, Texas Hill Country 189
Chapter 18 Desert Redband Trout, Owyhee Range, Idaho 197
Chapter 19 Redfish, Texas Gulf Coast 213
Chapter 20 Mixed Feelings-Invasive Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout, Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona | Gila Trout, East Verde River, Mogollon Rim, Arizona 225
Chapter 21 Just One More Cast-Brook Trout, Headwaters of the Potomac, West Virginia 241
Epilogue-Choosing to Change the Fate of Humanity … and the Fate of the Earth, Moving from the Anthropocene (Age of Humanity) to the Naturaecene (Age of Nature) 253
Acknowledgments 258
Selected Bibliography 259