Samuel Snyder reviews the book “An Entirely Synthetic Fish” on the MidCurrent site. A fascinating read, this book gives a different look at the history of the rainbow trout and how its incredible success as a gamefish has also contributed to its decline.
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Travis Lowe, CEO of documentary producer Cinema Digital, to include a CFI stream enhancement in his upcoming film “Spring Creek“. “For the last year and a half I’ve been trying to synch up my shooting schedule with a spring creek restoration effort. So I was stoked when Shannon Skelton, a senior fisheries biologist and president of CFI Global Fisheries Management invited me down to Colorado to take a look at some work CFI is about to do on a spring creek next summer.” “I’m tremedously excited to work with Shannon and be afforded the opportunity to see some restoration work in the midst of it actually happening. ” – Travis Lowe Click here for the full text.
The artist Christo has received BLM approval to install 5.9 miles of fabric over a 42 mile stretch of the Arkansas River between Salida and Canyon City. Read the full article here.
CFI was honored to have one of our recent stream enhancement projects featured in the Denver Post. This project, located just outside Evergreen, had substantial challenges including a lack of high water habitat, riparian cover and macroinvertebrate production. This stream now boasts a blue-ribbon experience while maintaining small stream intimacy. ““CFI tends to utilize more natural techniques to improve fish habitat,” said Nathan Green, a regulatory project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers who has worked with Skelton on several fish-habitat improvement projects.” Click here for the article.
Poor width to depth ratios were a constant theme on this stream restoration project and required extensive point bar work to correct.
Hall & Hall, the premiere ranch real estate broker of the west, recently published this article from CFI-Global Fisheries Management President and CEO Shannon Skelton on the changing perceptions of the ranching and fishing communities and how collaboration and fisheries enhancement is yielding new opportunities for each. Click here for the article.
A look at a typical river section through the stream restoration area before work. The Fort Collins Coloradoan recently profiled CFI looking to understand a little more about what this long time Fort Collins company does. “CFI is a full-service river, lake and pond fish habitat design, restoration and management firm” The entire article can be read here. |
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