My front row seat to history (such as it is)
Lake Davis Pike Eradication Project: 1999- 2007
Slideshow produced for DFG Pike team: Oct. 2007
New York Times: Pike Reappear and a CA City is On Guard: June 21, 1999
Officials discover 28 more pike/Associated Press/July 30, 1999
Reno Gazette-Journal: Nets, shock sweep Lake Davis: April 19, 2000
Reno Gazette-Journal: Your Turn: Doing Nothing Not an Option April 14, 2002
Associated Press: Officials Resigned to State’s Explosives Plan: April 15, 2002
Associated Press: CA Game Officials set Fish Bomb: April 24, 2002
KCRA-3: CA Game Officials Use Explosives at Lake Davis: April 24, 2002
Billings Gazette: CA Tests Explosive Solution: April 27, 2002
Sports Illustrated: Invasion of the Trout Snatchers: April 29, 2002
New York Times: Renegade Fish Outlasting Even Bombings: May 2, 2002
Associated Press: Poison, Nets Don’t Slow Non-native Fish: Jan. 13, 2003
Associated Press: Lake Davis Pike Persist: July 24, 2003
SF Chronicle: Lots of Trouble Coming Down the Pike: July 30, 2003
Davis Enterprise (clip): They Don’t Lke the Pike: Aug. 20, 2003
Associated Press: Pesky Pike Winning PR Battle: Sept. 8, 2003
Chico News & Review: Ugly Fish, Ugly Problem: June 10, 2004
Associated Press: Poisioning to Target Northern Pike: March 2, 2005
SF Chronicle: DFG to Make Another Effort to Eliminate Pike: Sept. 22, 2005
Los Angeles Times: Plan to Kill Pike Spawns Less Uproar: Sept. 25, 2005
Sacramento Bee: Photo: Pike Checkpoint: May. 24, 2006
Sacramento Bee (clip): Hitchhiking Pike Worry Officials: May. 24, 2006
Associated Press: State Looks to Poison in Losing Battle: Sept. 2, 2006
Plumas News: DFG Decides on Pike Eradication: Jan. 24, 2007
NPR: Pike War in Lake Davis (audio): Jan. 24, 2007
SF Chronicle: DFG Will Poison Pike in Lake Davis: Jan. 28, 2007
Blog: Condos & Condors, and Trout on a Pike: July 20, 2007
Outdoor Newsroom: DFG Schedules Pike Open House: July 30, 2007
USA Today: Pike Ruin Trout Fishing in CA Lake: Aug. 23, 2007
Capitol Weekly: Ed Pert: Angling for Pike: September 2007
Sacramento Bee: Editorial: Lake Davis Part II: Sept. 2, 2007
Capital Public Radio Insight: Pike forum (audio): Sept. 5, 2007
DFG News Release: Treatment of Streams Begins Monday: Sept. 7, 2007
Reno Gazette-Journal (clip): Pike Kill to Start: Sept. 10, 2007
Sacramento Bee (clip): Humans Start Round Two Against Pike: Sept. 11, 2007
NY Times: CA Battles an Invasive Fish, Again: Sept. 12, 2007
Portola Reporter: Media Coverage at Lake Davis: Sept. 13, 2007
Reno G-J: (clip) Pike to be Buried in Reno Landfill: Sept. 17, 2007
DFG News Release: Treatment of Lake Begins Tuesday: Sept. 21, 2007
Los Angeles Times: Town Would Like Stake Through Pike: Sept. 23, 2007
Redding Record-Searchlight: (clip) Learn the Lesson of Lake Davis?: Sept. 24, 2007
Reno G-J (clip): Officials Hope poison will erase Davis pike: Sept. 25, 2007
SF Chronicle: Thousands of Fish Go Belly Up as Poisoning Starts: Sept. 25, 2007
National Geographic: AP Photo - Dawn Lifts/Pike Poisoned: Sept. 25, 2007
Associated Press: State Begins New Lake Davis Fish Kill: Sept. 25, 2007
Associated Press: State Tries Again to Kill Pike: Sept. 26, 2007
Reno Gazette-Journal (clip): Thousands of Fish Die: Sept. 26, 2007
Reno Gazette-Journal (clip): Editorial: This Time, DFG Must Win: Sept. 29, 2007
Los Angeles Times: Happy Ending for Ivan Paulsen, but Not Pike: Oct. 1, 2007
SF Chronicle: Lake Poisoning Seems to Have Worked: Oct. 2, 2007
SF Chronicle: Unapiker Mystery: Who is He?: Oct. 7, 2007
Capital Public Radio Insight: Followup to pike treatment (audio at 27:21 mark): Oct. 5, 2007
Reno Gazette-Journal: Nearly 25 tons of Dead Fish Removed: Oct. 27, 2007
Associated Press: Dead Fish Removed from Lake Davis: Oct. 28, 2007
Associated Press: Lake Davis Restocks Trout Population: Dec. 14, 2007
KVIE-CA Heartland: The Fight Against Pike (video): Sept., 2008
Island Press: How CA DFG Turned Community Opinion Around: March 11, 2009
Stockton Record: No Pike Has Davis at its Peak: July 21, 2010