Stanley Basin Blues

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Producer Jane Fritz revisits a wild river she knew in her youth: central Idaho’s Stanley Basin. In the old days, the river was filled with thousands of salmon and steelhead trout. From her home in Clark Fork, Idaho, Jane Fritz sent us this reporters’ notebook.

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