The Quest for the Golden Trout: Environmental Loss and America's Iconic Fish
"A  reminder, both lyrical and careful, of how much we've lost of wild America--and of how we might regain at least a little ground." --Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist"The Quest for the Golden Trout is a thought provoking book that every environmentalist who is interested in protecting coldwater streams should read." "The Quest for the Golden Trout is an extraordinary book that is long overdue..."-- Doug Swesty, Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition"The Quest for the Golden Trout is an  antidote to the fetishizing of nature. It will not dilute the pleasure of trout fishing but offer a more honest perspective" -Alan Bisbort, The Sunday Republican“[Thompson’s] advice is to leave streams alone, to avoid stream-bank stabilization work, to avoid artificial devices that alter flows, to ensure stream-banks are vegetated as a buffer against pollution and thermal pollution.”—Hartford Courant“The Quest for the Golden Trout is about looking at our nation’s rivers with a more critical eye—and asking more questions about both historic and current practices in fisheries management.”—Northeastern Naturalist"[A] strong indictment of historical and modern policies leading to stream degradation and loss of native fauna solely for quenching anglers' insatiable thirst for nonnative trout. . . . Valuable for environmental science students, government employees developing/implementing aquatic polices, and environmentally concerned freshwater anglers. . . . Recommended."—Choice"People who love to fish for native trout, and who work to support sustainable native salmonid fisheries in naturally behaving streams that have true biodiversity will see Thompson's work as a needed call-to-arms." —The Salter, the quarterly newsletter of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition