MEDIA COVERAGE AND NEWS RELEASES
April 15, 2024 - BTC Volunteers complete 5th Annual Adopt-a-Highway Spring Cleanup!
June 17, 2020 - “FishPass Entry OKed at Last Dam Standing,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
May 28, 2020 - “How Much Use is Too Much For Boardman Valley Nature Preserve?” The Ticker
April 9, 2020 - “Final Permits for FishPass Appear to be Imminent”
March 14, 2020 - “Do You Want This in the Middle of Our City?” Northern Express
February 11, 2020 - Boardman River fish-shocking surveys reveal a heathy brook trout fishery
Fishery survey - Ranch Rudolph
February 6, 2020 - The solution for drunk and rowdy paddlers on the Boardman: self-regulation
January 21, 2020 - “How Much Brook Trout is Enough? Michigan Keeps Changing Catch Limits,” Bridge
January 10, 2020 - NRC Reverses Course, Says Yoopers Don’t Need to Eat 10 Brook Trout a Day
January 9, 2020 - “Michigan Fish-Sorter Has Global Implications,” Great Lakes Echo
January 8, 2020 - City, GLFC Host FishPass Open House
January 8, 2020 - “FishPass Open Houses Draw Dozens to Ask Questions,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
November 5, 2019 - “City Adopts FishPass Agreement,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
October 27, 2019 - “Forum: Salmon, Steelhead Now in Boardman River,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
October 12, 2019 - “FishPass Q&A Coming,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
October 5, 2019 - “Is Traverse City Ready For FishPass?” Northern Express
August 29, 2019 - “Boardman River Meeting Garners Opinions, Questions,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
July 17, 2019 - “Sturgeon Confirmed in Boardman River,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
June 24, 2019 - “FishPass Structure Design Nearly Done,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
June 18, 2019 - “A Grayling Initiative Update”
June 5, 2019 - “Forum: No More Development For Lower Boardman,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
May 14, 2019 - “A Bridge Over Pristine Waters”
April 11, 2019 - “Grayling Researcher: Brown Trout ‘Annihilate’ Grayling”
March 15, 2019 - BTC Rep Testifies at Natural Resources Commission Meeting in Bellaire
March 7, 2019 - Upcoming Natural Resources Commission Meeting
February 15, 2019 - “DEQ Considers FishPass Permit,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
February 13, 2019 - “Eel Profit Not Worth Environmental Risk,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
November 25, 2018 - “ ‘Healing’ a River,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
November 21, 2018 - GLFC Officials Provide FishPass Update
October 31, 2018 - “Bringing Back the Grayling,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
October 6, 2018 - “City To Talk Dams, Carnegie Building,” The Ticker
September 16, 2018 - “Fishy Comings and Goings in Area Waters,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
September 6, 2018 - “Tribal Elder Raises Awareness,” Capital News Service
August 25, 2018 - “Union Street Fish Ladder Still Open,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
August 23, 2018 - “Sabin Dam Removal Underway,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
August 16, 2018 - “Voices of the Boardman River: Hank Bailey,” Interlochen Public Radio
May 31, 2018 - “Anglers Weigh In On FishPass Project,” The Ticker
May 28, 2018 - “FishPass Stirs Steelhead Controversy,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
April 29, 2018 - “Forum: Michigan DNR Must Protect Boardman Brook Trout,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
January 12, 2018 - “FishPass Concept Swims Ahead,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
September 6, 2017 - “Fish Passage Proposal Draws Concerns,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
April 6, 2017 - “FishPass Project Lets ‘Desired’ Fish In, Invasives Out,” Traverse City Record-Eagle
July 31, 2011 - “The Battle of the Boardman,” Northern Express
“The Native Fish Coalition . . . believes that hatchery fish should never be stocked on top of native fish or even where they might have access to native fish. Hatchery fish, it notes, are products of unnatural selection. They’re conditioned to crowded, coverless, cement raceways that erode fins. Instead of avoiding moving shadows they’re attracted to them because they’re often fed by hand. And they become easy pickings for avian predators because, even when fed by machine, they’re conditioned to feed on the surface. They are everything wild fish aren’t, so they do poorly in the natural world. And when superimposed on wild fish they compete with them for food and space, disrupt spawning, and sometimes pass on their inferior genes.””