Hello. I’m Bruce Kania, inventor, fisherman, hunter.
By: Bruce Kania
Tags: Water, Hunting, Paleo, Fishing, Climate Change

Not blue. Not red. Green.

Creating solutions that don’t cause other problems for the survival of the planet really shouldn’t be political.

I’ve got this place out in Montana. A stunning spot that my wife, Anne, and I built out to be a world-class wild fishery and pheasant hunting spot. When we first arrived, there was a good deal of work that needed to be done. Excess nutrients drained into the natural ponds around the property from neighboring agriculture that relied (and still does) on chemical fertilizer. I’ve written a great deal about the transformation of that smelly, green pond into Fish Fry Lake—the beautiful fishery it is today, over on the pages of our business website, Floating Island International.

I invite you, if you’re interested, to head on over there to see how we turned to 100% natural methods, imitating nature — specifically, the natural floating wetlands I used to swim and fish amongst as a boy in Wisconsin and Minnesota — and brought the natural food web into that awful little pond. In particular, you might want to visit these pages for that story

but don’t feel like you have to.

I’m not going to write here in order to sell you BioHaven Floating Islands, though of course, if you’re interested in adding them to your algae-green pond or lake, using them as part of a plan for a sustainable stormwater solution, bringing aquatic and human life back to municipal lakes in urban areas, floating your solar power generation on them, or rebuilding your sinking shoreline, I’m more than happy to talk with you about that. We’ve got around 9,000 of them out there cleaning water.

This site also isn’t going to be about politics per se, because creating solutions that don’t cause other problems for the survival of the planet really shouldn’t be political. We know that greenhouse gas emissions are a problem for the ozone layer. We know that the sea level is rising and that many species every day are disappearing from the Earth. These things aren’t blue. They aren’t red. They are green.

The climate is changing and doing nothing isn’t an option.

Building solutions just might be what I’m best at.

So who am I?

I am a fisherman. I am an inventor. After getting my degree at University of Wisconsin, I invented and patented some seventy items that I saw were really lacking in the marketplace, in the realms of prosthetics, orthotics, textiles, and sporting goods; all with the goal to create ground-breaking products that positively impact lives and the world we live in.

Our place is Shepherd Research Center, and it is here that I go out every day, sometimes twice a day, sometimes alone and sometimes with new and old friends to fish for bluegill, bucketmouth bass, etc, etc. for the sustaining paleo diet that is enjoyed by everyone here at Shepherd, human and canine. Our three dogs help us with our hunting, which, during season brings in more delicious meals and also human visitors to our place.

I’d like to get to know you, and I’d like you to get to know me through my writing. I’ve been around a while, and immersed myself in study and enjoyment of the ecosystem around me.

I’m going to share hunting stories, paleo recipes, fish tales, observations of nature — human, animal, and other, interesting research, and big dreams here in this Medium. I hope you’ll join me on my journey.