Matthew L. Miller

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Author, Fishing Through the Apocalypse. Editor, The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science. Fishing, mammals, natural history, good books, outdoor life.

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Life outside the fishbowl: Tracking an introduced population of goldfish (Carassius auratus) in an embayment on the Laurentian Great Lakes doi.org/10.1016/j.jg...

Don’t throw out those pumpkins. They make great wildlife treats.

Pumpkins for Wildlife: From Backyard to the Zooblog.nature.org Pumpkins aren't just for Halloween Jack O'Lanterns. Animals from squirrels to sand cats to porcupines love them too.

Kootenai River Valley in northern Idaho.

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Even though the dolphin isn’t fished for human consumption, it’s become endangered over the decades because fishers use its flesh as bait for catching piracatinga catfish 🌎

Fishing ban extension raises hopes for iconic Amazon pink river dolphinnews.mongabay.com The measure became even more relevant in October, following the finding of more than 100 dead dolphins in an Amazonian lake — experts suspect that the deaths are directly linked to the extreme droug...

Borax Lake, home of the endemic Borax Lake chub. I’m here working on a story about this unusual fish and its conservation recovery.

One of my happy places, the eastern Oregon desert.

Catch-and-release backyard mammal trapping. This is a bushy-tailed woodrat, commonly called a pack rat. Cool critter and great fun.

First detected in Pennsylvania in 2014, the spotted lantern fly has now become a major invasive pest in the eastern US.

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Testing using this platform. Column on the importance of appreciating suckers, especially redhorses. chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/6/23...

Shoal bass quest.

Great Basin gopher snake, a common find on my hikes in the Boise Foothills.

Rustic sphinx moth.

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A sample of 🍄📷 from Priest Lake, Idaho. Matsutake (bottom right), Suillus (middle right, above chanterelle), and Russula (big mushie in the middle) vastly outnumbered everything else. I was gonna post these individually, but I ran out of patience. Lemme know if you want in situ photos of anything.

Longhorn living up to its name.

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“MINNESOGAR!!!” 🧪Thanks to T.Winter for getting us GarLab’s FIRST Minnesota gar! A Shortnose Gar from the Minnesota River! Measured & released 🎣👍

Recent catches while pier fishing in Alabama & Mississippi: pinfish, blue runner, Jack crevalle, hardhead catfish.

“It’s dreary to keep hearing it doesn’t matter if you catch anything, it’s the experience that counts. Well, of course the experience counts, & we spiritually thrive in this intimate contact with earth, but it’s a whole lot better to catch fish than to not catch fish.” —Jim Harrison, “Starting Over”

I’m Matt, a writer & conservationist from Idaho. I am the author of the book Fishing Through the Apocalypse and editor at The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science. I post about fish & fishing, natural history, books and outdoor adventures large & small.

The conditions were terrible (driving rain) and the trout were tiny. But I found solitude and native fish in this beautiful stream in New Jersey, the 41st state where I’ve caught a fish.

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Rio Grande cutthroat trout—a Model for Fisheries Conservationthefisheriesblog.com Learn from (frequent) guest blogger Craig Springer how anglers have funded restoration of the beautiful Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout...

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