Archive for the tag 'Mining'

Dan Osmond: Heavy Metal Trout in Hard Rock Rivers

The world is full of podcasts, and FOMO is real… so here’s a brilliant (not to mention, ahem, ‘metal AF‘) half-hour of listening that we’d highly recommend adding to your playlist. Daniel Osmond is a writer, friend of Urbantrout and senior fisheries officer with Westcountry Rivers Trust who’s recently finished his PhD on the wide […]

Film night: Saving the Lathkill

As regular readers of this blog will know, post-industrial rivers really do come in all shapes, sizes and conditions (and not all of them now as urban as you might think). To us, there’s no better proof of this maxim than the otherwise idyllic upper Lathkill, part of the headwaters of the mighty Trent. However […]