Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEET is a native Californian who for five decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast. ATLANTIC readers will recall Mr. Van Fleet’s article in defense of Rachel Carson, when the chemical companies attacked her as the author of SILENT SPRINT. In this new article Mr. Van Fleet gives further evidence that Miss Carson was right.
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEET is a native Californian who for five decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast, He has been disturbed by the effect on wildlife of the reckless, uncoordinated use of pesticides. and he has been appalled at the attack on Rachel Carson by spokesmen of the chemical companies.
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEETis a native Californian who for five decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast. Some of his experiences he described in his book STEELHEAD TO A FLY,and throughout his career he has kept a constant, watchful eye on our natural resources.
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEET is a native Californian who for five decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast. Some of his experiences he described in his book STEELHEAD TO A FLY,and throughout his career he has kept a constant, watchful eye on our national parks.
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEET is a native Californian who for more than four decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast. He knows the best pools in the great rivers of Washington, Oregon, and California; he knows the habits of the Steelhead and the Red side; he knows what roads to take and where to stay. Some of his experiences he described in his book, Steelhead to a Fly, which was published in 1954 by Atlantic - Little, Brown.
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEETis a native Californian who for more than four decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast. Like every true lover of wildlife, he is appalled by the carelessness with which politicians and government officials invade national parks and game sanctuaries which were thought to be inviolate. In the case he is describing, the Pentagon is to blame.
Thanks to man-made protection, the deer have multiplied in almost every state in the Union to the point where they constitute a national nuisance. What can be done about this is of concern to every conservationist, and especially to those who, like CLARK C. VAN FLEET,live in California where today the deer herds are so much larger than ever the Indians knew. Atlantic anglers will remember Mr. Van Fleet for his graphic and valuable book, Steelhead to a Fly, which was published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint last autumn.
A Californian born and bred, CLARK C. VAN FLEET has been fishing the streams of the West Coast for going on five decades. A conservationist at heart, he has noted the steady decline in the salmon migration; he has seen thousands of fish dashed to death at the bases of great new dams and been revolted by the ruthlessness of the trawler and the canner. Extinction, he says, can come easily when Americans grow careless of the future. Readers will recall Mr. Van Fleet’s articles on the steelhead trout which appeared in our August and September issues.
A Californian, born and bred, of a family long interested in oil. CLARK C. VAN FLEET began fishing when he was a small boy. Over the past four decades, he has devoted most of his recreation hours to fishing for — and studying — the steelhead trout, the greatest game fish of the West Coast. From his letters and diaries he has drawn an exciting, edifying, humbling account of his favorite streams and his great warrior. This is the second of three articles, the first of which appeared in the Atlantic for August.