MEDIA COVERAGE AND NEWS RELEASES


April 15, 2024 - BTC Volunteers complete 5th Annual Adopt-a-Highway Spring Cleanup!

July 2, 2020 - “Volunteers: Grab a Bag for the Boardman River — an Onion Litter Bag,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

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 17, 2020 - “Traverse City Project to Let Fish Through Has ‘Broad Impact’ on Great Lakes,” Detroit News

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

Fishery survey - Brown Bridge

February 6, 2020 - The solution for drunk and rowdy paddlers on the Boardman: self-regulation

February 2, 2020 - “Future of Paddling on the Boardman River Forum Scheduled at Library,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

January 21, 2020 - “How Much Brook Trout is Enough? Michigan Keeps Changing Catch Limits,” Bridge

January 17, 2020 - “Traverse City Will Be First in the World to Sort Fish for Passage Upriver,” Interlochen Public Radio

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

December 8, 2019 - “FishPass Permit for Boardman River Dam Open for Public Comment,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

November 8, 2019 - “Dam Removals Help Restore Boardman River — FishPass Debate Continues,” Interlochen Public Radio

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 11, 2019 - Michigan Trout Unlimited’s Opposition to 10 Brook Trout Daily Bag Limit Regulations for Michigan’s U.P. Streams

October 5, 2019 - “Is Traverse City Ready For FishPass?” Northern Express

August 29, 2019 - “Boardman River Meeting Garners Opinions, Questions,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

August 13, 2019 - “Forum: River Focus of Multiple Plans — Let’s Talk About Them,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

August 1, 2019 - “Fish Fry: Grayling Young to Transfer from Okemos Lab to Oden Hatchery,” 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

December 17, 2018 - “Sabin Dam, Powerhouse Gone; Boardman Diverted Into New Channel for Final Time,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

November 25, 2018 - “ ‘Healing’ a River,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

November 21, 2018 - GLFC Officials Provide FishPass Update

November 21, 2018 - “18 Million Experimental FishPass Details Emerge, Including New Amphitheater,” The Ticker

October 31, 2018 - “ReWild Aims to Raise Money for Arctic Grayling Initiative,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

October 31, 2018 - “Bringing Back the Grayling,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

October 29, 2018 - “These Michigan Rivers Might Get the Long Lost Arctic Grayling,” Detroit Free Press

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

May 23, 2018 - “What Will It Take for Michigan’s Wild Arctic Grayling to Return Home?” Traverse Magazine

April 29, 2018 - “Forum: Michigan DNR Must Protect Boardman Brook Trout,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

January 13, 2018 - “Op-Ed: FishPass Project To Improve Cityscape and Fisheries,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

January 12, 2018 - “FishPass Concept Swims Ahead,” Traverse City Record-Eagle

November 26, 2017 - “Op-Ed: Stop DNR From Doubling Bag Limit on Brook Trout,” 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.”
— Ted Williams, "Why a Native Fish Coalition?" Fly Fisherman Magazine