The Bull Trout Show
02 - There Once Was An Exuberance Of Fish with Lorne Fitch
Lorne Fitch is a keen observer of the natural world, a conservationist, and a man of many stories. He is author of the new book “Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World”. Indeed, the streams of Alberta’s eastern slopes were Lorne’s childhood playground. That is where he learned to fish and first encountered the bull trout of Bighorn Country. As a young man, he turned his passion for the outdoors into a lifelong career as a professional biologist and Fish and Wildlife Officer with the Province of Alberta. Lorne’s career paralleled the decline of native bull trout as human access and industrial development encroached dramatically into the forests of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Journalist Cheryl Croucher talked with Lorne Fitch about the changes he has observed over his lifetime.
Lorne Fitch is a keen observer of the natural world, a conservationist, and a man of many stories. He is author of the new book “Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World”. Indeed, the streams of Alberta’s eastern slopes were Lorne’s childhood playground. That is where he learned to fish and first encountered the bull trout of Bighorn Country. As a young man, he turned his passion for the outdoors into a lifelong career as a professional biologist and Fish and Wildlife Officer with the Province of Alberta. Lorne’s career paralleled the decline of native bull trout as human access and industrial development encroached dramatically into the forests of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Journalist Cheryl Croucher talked with Lorne Fitch about the changes he has observed over his lifetime.