Jan. 5th Membership Meeting

Join us on Thursday Jan. 5th at Hanover Outdoors for our next monthly meeting.  This month’s guest speaker will be Gabe Gries from NH Fish & Game Dept.

Doors Open and Pizza served at 6 PM, with speaker starting promptly at 6:30.

Raffle prizes available.  BYOB.

Join Us Thursday

Witt Carter of Lakewood Camps in Andover, ME will be our guest speaker this Thursday, Nov. 3rd.  Witt will show and tell us about some of the finest Brook trout and Landlocked salmon fishing in the Northeast.  If you’ve ever wanted to fly fish the famous Rapid River, you’ll want to hear what Witt has to say.  Check out Witt’s web page at www.lakewoodcamps.com

As always the meeting will take place at Hanover Outdoors.  Doors open at 6 PM, with Witt speaking at 6:30.  The chapter will provide pizza, but BYOB.  Raffle tickets also available.

Volunteers Needed 10/30

Tree Planting:

We will be planting trees at Billings Farm on Sunday October 30th, starting at 10am.  We will meet at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) parking lot in Quechee, VT between 9:30 and 9:45am, at which time we will be car-pooling over to the Billings Farm site.  This project is repairing the buffer that we planted last year.  Some of the trees took an awful beating from Irene.  Please come out and help!!!  Bring boots, gloves, appropriate clothing, water, snack and a shovel (if you have one) to help us get these trees in the ground.

 

Also on the 30th:

After the tree planting we will head over to Hartland and Lull’s Brook for some afternoon fun.  The tree planting we did there is looking good and we have a new sign that explains the project for visitors.  We will install the sign near the Hartland Library.  Come join us, the Hartland Garden Club and others from 2 – 4pm at the Hartland Library.

 

Michael Caduto, Local Author, Performer and Naturalist in a presentation of his new children’s book, Riparia’s River, and a presentation about riparian buffers.  He will be joined by his wife, Marie Caduto, Watershed Coordinator for Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation, who will lead an on-stream discussion about the benefits of stream bank restoration and riparian buffers.

Chapter Mtg. 10/6

Thanks to Burr and Mary!  Lots of great stuff that TU is doing in NH…

Burr & Mary in action

 

The Crowd Listens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us this Thursday at 6 PM for our monthly membership meeting at Hanover Outdoors.  Pizza, prizes and much more!!!  Come here what TU is doing in New Hampshire on our behalf (guest speakers start at 6:30 PM).

Help Clean Up this weekend…

Source to Sea Clean Up:

Thanks to ALL the volunteers that came out today to help clean up the White and Mascoma rivers! 

Listen to VPR today 12 & 7 PM

David Deen and Rich Kirn talk about the flood, fish and rivers today on Vermont Edition at 12:00 and again at 7 PM.

Listen or visit on-line at http://www.vpr.net/episode/52075/

Flooding Aftermath

West Hartford bridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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South Royalton, VT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter meeting Update

Tonight Thurs. Sept. 1st will be an informal meeting at Salt Hill Pub in Hanover, NH to discuss our response to the flooding.  Come over at 6 or 6:30 PM for a beer etc.

 

Thursday Sept. 8th – Regular Membership Meeting:  Guest speaker Chip Brown of Etna, NH will be sharing some of the secrets of Mink Brook, a local trout stream.  During his presentation, Chip will be sharing the results of the Mink Brook study, which was one of the many streams surveyed by New Hampshire Fish & Game, Trout Unlimited and other conservation groups to understand the health of the native brook trout population across the state of NH.  What they found out might just surprise you!!

Please join us at Hanover Outdoors in Hanover, NH on Thursday September 8th, 2011.  So come out and enjoy some pizza from C&A’s, learn about a local treasure, and maybe even win a few raffle prizes.

Doors will open at 6pm with the presentation starting at 6:30pm.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

PHW at trout pond

Today, 4 TU volunteers helped a few veterans catch some trout at the Meccawe Club (a private trout pond in Bridgewater, VT).  Thanks to Ron, Marty, Ken and Al for their time today.  And a big thank you to Terry, Loye and Jeremy for letting us use the club and for being there to help out today.  All the vets caught fish!  A couple were using the fly rods they made this past winter and a couple caught their trout on flies they tied this winter as part of our program with Project Healing Waters.  Looking forward to our next event guys!

Al and Tony

Darrell and Marty

Mark and Ken

Tree Planting

Our TU chapter joined the White River Partnership and Hanover Outdoors last weekend to plant 1,000 trees along the 2nd Branch of the White River to help prevent erosion along Fat Rooster Farm.  35 individuals showed up to help plant.  Thanks to all.

Chris and kids plant a red oiser dogwood