He got the April Fools Arizona salmon fishing joke

Wow, I can actually get drawn for Arizona Salmon! Last year I was drawn for Jackelope in the same area. What's next - condor hunting on the Arizona Strip?

Paul Richard

Prescott

From the website

He got it, too

Art! You bastard! I just read your salmon fishing in Arizona story. How could you give away the secret stash of the fly fishing Illumin-knotty? Your encrypted April Fools joke may have fooled the general public, but deception through the obvious is a  well-worn tool; decipherability is keen with the 9-weight whipper-snappers of the lost, forgotten salmon run. Thank god you didn't mention the midnight snipe run up Granite Creek!

Look, Art, this is for your own good: be watchful of those carrying a five-piece fly rod past your office. The eyes of March are upon you and you spilled the beans in April, which could result in a severe leader-lashing by bamboo rod! Do you realize the amount of hush money the Illumin-knotty had to pay Arizona game & Fish to quash those applying for a permit?

If you're lucky, this will all blow over and the drone fly-catcher spy birds will erase all presence of your actions by removing the numerous snagged salmon flies in the pink Sonoran saguaros. Jeez, Art! Use a little better judgment next time, OK?

George W. (er, ahh) Hayduke

Hite, Utah

Dropped off in an unmarked manila envelope

She was suspicious...

WHAT? How can I find out more information about this article? I am having trouble believing it, I am an Arizona native and have never heard of this.....please advise..I researched the Arizona Game and Fish department and found nothing about this??????

This is an April fools joke, isn't it?

Rebeca Garntz

Chino Valley

From the website

He didn't get it

I called fish & game and they tell me there are no salmon in Arizona. Is this a dirty joke, a hoax or what? I will call back 'cuz if this is just a dirty joke, it's a dirty joke. I'll call back someday later.

Unidentified angry voicemail

Thanks for the brewskies

How delighted I was by your beer review! The piece is lovely, humorous and informative. I feel as if I live in Arizona and not in cold New York. My husband and I may even subscribe! We want more!

Laura Seltz

Windsor, NY

From the website

Water articles get an attaboy

Bravo, Candace, this is great work.

Steven Ayres

Prescott

From the website

Saving Verde trout a waste of time

Do you people believe in evolution? Do you understand that species, especially sub-species come and go all the time? Why is a Verde trout any better than a rainbow trout or a bass? The only thing that is certain in life is change.

Bill

Willcox

From the website

National Trails Day fundraiser is biker spin

This seems like another project thought up by a mountain biker to make mountain biking seem acceptable. It's going to fail, just like all the other such attempts. That's because it's obvious that mountain biking is a destructive activity.

Mountain biking is one of the most destructive activities ever allowed in natural areas, and not something that we should be promoting. It accelerates erosion, creates V-shaped ruts, kills small animals and plants on and next to the trail, drives wildlife and other trail users out of the area, and (worst of all) teaches kids that the rough treatment of nature is okay (it's not!). What's good about that? For the science on mountain biking impacts, see http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/scb7.

Mike Vandeman

Whereabouts unknown

From the website

RE: Website story on relocating Prescott pronghorn to Winslow

It is happy news that the antelope herd near Winslow will be strengthened by this action but I must confess that I miss seeing the antelope the way I did back in 1980's through 1990's. Wouldn't it be great if development could be planned by real visionaries in our city and county governments such that the needs of all local wildlife could be considered as well as the human community? Is that impossible to do? Or, is it just too

Dear Editor,

Ms. McNulty's subject article about the failure of the Board Of Supervisors to re-up with the Verde River Partnership (VRP) for another six month term at their recent meeting was accurate and probably not to surprising. I guess it takes a 2 x 4 to get some folks attention. Hopefully, the Upper Verde Coalition at their January 24 meeting here in Prescott will reconsider their decision not to join the VRP and look to all the benefits of signing up as members. This emphasis of having only elected officials make scientific study decisions for the VRP is short sighted and technically indefensible. As noted in Joanne Dodder's report in the Prescott Courier of January 20, on the recent meeting of the Yavapai County Advisory Water Committee in Sedona some members of the group (elected officials) seemed confused by a brief technical discussion of the latest geologic model of the Verde. The presentation by Matt Fry, a Northern Arizona University graduate, a digital hydrologic framework model of the Upper Verde River headwaters, until pictures were shown was too complex for some (and probably would be for most of us citizens). To think of such a group ordering scientific technical studies is downright scary.

Management of complex ecosystems is not for amateurs. It combines the principles of ecosystem-level ecology with the broad-scale policy requirements of resource and public land management. Ordering of studies requires an understanding of the concepts of biological diversity, ecological process, biotic integrity, and ecological sustainability that underlie ecosystem management. Certainly not the province of locally elected officials.

Loui Bellesi

Prescott

The business could be using organic food, helping people increase energy efficiency, using earth-friendly chemicals

Editor,

Former President Gerald R. Ford is dead.  May he rest in peace.
Perhaps the country is better off for the incompetent actions of Ford during
the Warren Commission inquiry and later the pardon of Richard "I am not a
crook" Nixon.  Twice in his lifetiime Ford was called upon by fate to render
a decision which would shape the face of a nation, nay the world.  Twice he
muffed it.  Ford and the Warren Commission, a group of relatively unknowns
(at the time) determined that a lone gunman in Dallas fired (from behind)
the fatal shot that felled our youngest president who was (as the Zapruder
Film shows) struck from the front.  Twelve years later, the Watergate
Investigation drags on for months, proving our sitting president, "Tricky
Dick" is, in fact, a crook, and of the lowest calibre.  After Nixon is
forced to resign-- Ford pardons him.  Never allowing America to complete its
justice cycles--intended for balancing the corrupted psyche of the country.
Those people who loved Kennedy were denied justice.  Those who were
destroyed by Nixon were  denied justice.  Alas, my eulogy for Ford is that
of a serial obstructor of justice.

D.T. Wilson

December 19, 2006

Thanks for Reaadithere Newsletter.  EVERYONE involved in discussing
water should start with the 1980 Arizona law which declares that the
groundwater belongs to ALL THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA.  Anyone elected or
self-selected to manage/discuss it MUST start with knowledge of the
law!!

--
Elisabeth F. Ruffner
1403 Barranca Drive
Prescott AZ 86303-4501

December 13, 2006

In law school my professors said to me:  "Henry if you want to make better grades and get off academic probation, quit looking for the truth, there is no such thing in law as the truth."

Thanks for your information on water.  I am writing my Ph.D. dissertation on Ground Water Rights, the law, and Sustainability.

Nice information from your paper on water for my practicum.  And it helps educate me for my many interviews to come.

Henry Ebarb

Editor,

The October 29, 2006 Prescott Courier Talk of the Town “PV water auction a step toward safe yield” by Prescott Valley Mayor Harvey Skoog should cause a few alarm bells to go off. He begins by discussing safe yield: “Prescott Valley needs to reach safe-yield by 2025. Safe-yield essentially means a long-term balance between the amount of water users pump from the ground and the amount they recharge back into it from various sources.”