It’s an evening for revelry, Undergrounders. I received a phone call from Siskiyou County Supervisor Lavada Erickson who informed me the much-hated Siskiyou County Natural Resource Policy had been voted into oblivion.
Gone. Kaput. Voted down 3-2.
Holy crap. Tomorrow, I’m having slaw dogs for lunch.
Many of you helped fight the battle against this ridiculous policy document, […]

You won’t find me singing the praises of most of the mainstream fly fishing magazines, but one clear exception is Fly Rod & Reel, who have the guts to run whatever no-holds-barred Enviro Writer Ted Williams sends them.

In the current issue (January/February 2008), Williams does a masterful job of exposing the “Wise Use” movement […]

It’s late, so I’ll top this post off with more detail later. For now, I can hit the river without a little nagging voice in my head yelling at me to do something about this stupidity.
That’s because the news is good. Not perfect, but good.
No, the supervisors didn’t vote to do away with the whole […]

Around midday, the Undergrounders sent their 100th e-mail to Siskiyou County’s supervisors, and with that, our work is largely done.

All that’s left is to hold our breath and wait for tomorrow’s vote on Siskiyou County’s Natural Resources Plan (2:30 pm), which threatens to declare all the county’s river’s non-navigable (and non-accessible to most fly […]

[Update: Over 100 emails as of Monday PM! The Undergrounders are animals — thanks to each and every one of you.]
I’m pissed. For the past week and half, I’ve been playing “nice” around the Siskiyou County Natural Resources Plan — the one that threatens our legal right to access and fish the rivers of […]

News flash: don’t show up at Tuesday’s Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors meeting if you want to say something about the hugely flawed, access-robbing Natural Resources vote. The varmints have continued that vote until next Tuesday’s meeting.
More coming on this one soon. See you anywhere but Yreka, Tom ChandlerTechnorati Tags: natural resources policy

Here’s a quickie: Do any of the Underground’s readers live in the Weed, Lake Shastina, or Shasta Valley area?
If so, the Trout Underground Needs You!
Please contact me right away via the Underground’s Contact page. We need a three-minute favor, and I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important.
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Like most political battles, our fight to keep Siskiyou County’s rivers open and accessible to fishermen is transitioning from the preliminaries — where you find out who’s involved and where they fall — into the kind of political chess game that plays out largely through intermediaries, rumors, whispers and code.
I’ve promised to play nice for […]

[UPDATE: New information about the source of this Natural Resource plan — and the lack of honesty surrounding its origins. I plan to post something as soon as it’s confirmed (hopefully no later than Saturday). Stay tuned!]
Those with sensitive political palettes may want to turn away; we’re continuing to unravel Siskiyou County’s disastrous proposed Natural […]

If you follow the Underground, you know we’re smack in the middle of a battle to keep the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors (BOS) from approving a “Natural Resources Policy” that eliminates your legal right to fish the rivers in Siskiyou County — including the McCloud and Upper Sacramento.

This would be illegal if some have […]

Fly fishing’s supposed to be a gentle sport, where you revel in the solitude of nature, telling life’s everyday hassles they can kiss your ass while you’re on the river.
Sadly, you might not have much access to that river if the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors’s proposed Natural Resources Plan declares the Upper Sacramento, McCloud, Shasta […]