05/03/09. 8:30am to 2:30pm. Training Session for New Stewardship Volunteers. The first objective of the TU conservation approach is PROTECT–protecting the resources we already enjoy from development and degradation. A key aspect of PROTECT in the world we live in is land conservancy through easements and other vehicles. Protecting rivers without protecting the watershed is probably not an effective approach. [...]
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05/07/09. 7:00pm. Thomas Ames, nationally known photographer & author, will present slides and stories from his new book, Caddisflies: A Guide to Eastern Species for Anglers and Other Naturalists. Tom is also the author Hatch Guide for New England Streams and Fishbugs. His new book will be available for purchase and signing. Join us at the Quechee (Ski [...]
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05/03/09. 1:00pm. Join fellow Trout Unlimited members and the White River Partnership this coming Sunday, May 3rd, 1:00pm at the West Hartford bridge to help green up the White River and Clifford Park. The town of Hartford will provide the traditional green trash bags and pick them up for our volunteers on Monday. This is a [...]
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White River Watershed Chapter 226 Trout Unlimited
Board of Directors Meeting
April 02, 2009
Quechee Inn @ Marshland Farms
In Attendance
President Chris Moore (Interim VT Council Chair)
Vice President Greg Russ
Treasurer Scott Knapp
Secretary Ed Finley
Past President Ron Rhodes
Past President David Eastman
Howard Trachtenberg
Marty Banak
Seth Dunn (Interim VT Council Vice Chair)
Member Ken Grecsek
Meeting opened @ 7:30 PM
President’s [...]
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04/26/09. 2:30pm. After a superb Banquet experience, we are moving our conservation work from inside to stream-side! Come limber up for a season of conservation work and get your hands dirty shoring up the banks of the White River from further erosion. We’ll be gathering Sunday, April 26th, at 2:30 pm at Lyman Point Park [...]
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Sunday night was incredible–I am personally very grateful for the generosity of our hotelier, speaker, auctioneer, donors, attendees, and volunteers. Outstanding work and support! I am also officially astonished by the generosity of those in attendance during these trying times. The gross receipts for the banquet exceed $11,000 and the net proceeds should exceed $8500 [...]
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The Banquet Committee has been bowled over by the response we have received thus far for the Banquet this coming Sunday, April 19th–there are just a handful of tickets left now and when they’re gone, they’re gone! (I’m starting to feel like Willie Wonka handing out the Golden Tickets.)
The staff and owners of Hanover Outdoors [...]
05/13/09. 7:00pm. The Hartland Conservation Commission is holding a regular meeting of special interest to TUers in our Chapter. Ken Cox will be presenting data collected on Lull’s Brook in Hartland, a direct tributary of the Connecticut, and potential future focus for a Chapter project. This is the Hartland Conservation Commission’s regular meeting [...]
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