North Dakota's Crooked Lake: Hard winter devastates perch

One lake of particular interest is Crooked Lake in McLean County, the southernmost lake in the three lakes chain that includes Strawberry Lake and Long Lake. The pike, perch and walleye population in Crooked Lake had been coming on strong for the past few years. Fishermen reported good numbers of pike and catches of walleye in the 18-20 inch range during 2008. In addition, perch numbers were booming; providing both an excellent forage base and the promise of top shelf perch fishing in the near future. Test netting conducted this past Wednesday and Thursday confirmed what biologists had feared.

"We didn't find any perch in our nets that we pulled," said Jason Lee, fisheries biologist, Riverdale. "We're going to have to get some adult perch in here soon, within the next week or so and try to get them going again."
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"It was a very hard winter for people and for wildlife," said Lee. "It's something we just have to deal with once in a while. We just pick up from where we are and just try and make things better."

Climate Fight: Get With the Cap-and-Trade Program - Environmental Capital - WSJ

[Alarmist Joe Romm] ...There is only one way. That is a WWII-style and WWII-scale government-led mobilization […] Well, we didn’t accomplish the WWII mobilization through a pricing mechanism.

So this should get interesting. Is all the ruckus over the Waxman-Markey bill about getting the market to find solutions to global warming or getting the government to do it?

Climate deal will depend on others, so why not call Rudd and Wong's bluff?

Whether the Great Barrier Reef survives global warming is now up to China and the US, specifically presidents Hu Jintao and Barack Obama. That is one of the few clear messages this week from Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong's backflip on their tortured climate policy, now in its third version.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Jim Hansen and [Exxon's] Rex Tillerson Agree

Now Hansen and Tillerson disagree about the size of the tax — $115 per ton for Hansen and $5 per ton for Tillerson, but they strongly agree that a tax is preferable to cap and trade, and also that cap and trade won’t be effective in reducing emissions.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.