SKILLS: Conserved Land Stewardship

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.  [...]

ACTION ALERT! Inaugural Green Up Clean Up!!!

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 [...]

04/02/09 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

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 [...]

ACTION ALERT: Tree Planting this Sunday!!!

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 [...]

Hartland Opportunity: Lull’s Brook

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 [...]

Willow cutting: volunteers needed!

03/29/09. 3:00pm.  Trout Unlimited and the White River Partnership will be cutting willow stakes this Sunday, March 29th, at 3pm on Broad Brook in Royalton.  These stakes will be “planted” (actually more like driven) into the ground at various locations to stabilize riverbanks and improve riparian habitat, including shoring up the excellent progress made on last year’s culvert project [...]

Chapter Meeting this Thursday, March 5th!

03/05/09. 7:00pm. Doug Lyons’ Guided Tour of the Battenkill River: The river’s history, value, habitat restoration successes and fishing quality. A great program on one of America’s greatest and most famous trout rivers. Join us at the Quechee (Ski Hill) Base Lodge, just down and across from the Quechee Club in Quechee, VT. 6:30 Social [...]

Sign the Bill of Rights

TU has joined a broad coalition of hunters, anglers, wildlife watchers, and other interested parties in an effort to force current and future State and Federal administrators to “do the right thing” and pursue energy development within the US in a manner consistent with preserving wildlife and recreational outdoor resources. While attending the TU [...]

Help WRP clean up the White!

Saturday, September 27, Sharon, 1:00 – 4:00pm: Join the White River Partnership, AHT Plumbing & Heating, and The Sharon Academy middle school students to clean up river access sites in Sharon. Meet at AHT at 5632 Rte. 14 (just past Sandy’s and the Health Center) to sign-in and pick-up your supplies. Meet back at AHT [...]

Cox Brook Dam is no more!

Woo hoo! Here’s a excerpted note from Mad Dog Chapter Prez, Clark Amadon:
Fellow anglers, TU Members and conservationists:
The Cox Brook Dam is gone, kaput, outta here! The crew from Hebert Excavating completed the destruction of the Cox Brook Dam today!Much gravel needs to be removed, hopefully by this Saturday. Here’s to the dam owners, [...]