Stegman Creek This vital tributary of the Rogue River was the recipient of two restoration projects durning July. Schrems teamed up with Josh Zuiderveen of Stream Works, LLC and Timberland RC&D for contiued efforts to maintain and improve Strgman.
On July 10th, Schrems volunteers George Buursma, John Hastings, Dave Smith, Rich Steketee and George Zuiderveen assisted project leader Josh Zuiderveen [...]
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On June 19th, Andy Milnes conducted his last Schrems Board Meeting and the 2010-11 Annual Meeting at WaWa Sum along the AuSable River. Board Member and Officer election results:
Board Elections (three-year term): Don Messinger, Mark Montptit, Tom Mundt, Larry Risbridger, Dave Smith and Rich Steketee.
Officer Elections: JR Hartman, President; Jason Cook, Vice President; Mark Montpetit, Treasurer [...]
On May 25th, the Grand River became home for 35 salmon compliments of the Salmon-in-the-Classroom program from Mike Hoekwater’s Biology class. Mr. Hoekwater was the first teacher to take advantage of the Schrems SIC program offering; this marks the fourth consecutive year Mr. Hoekwater have offered SIC. These are the other schools we’ve supported by [...]
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Our Schrems River Keeper program kicked-off for 2010 on May 8th. Volunteers (l-r) George Buursma, Josh Zuiderveen, Jim Flamming (‘Chief River Keeper’), Gary Winlow, Ryan Burke and Rich Brand gathered monitoring data from the six devises that remained in the Rogue River system through the winter. Also, new ‘loggers’ (monitoring device) were installed in: Barkley Creek, Shaw Creek and [...]
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It was late afternoon, a Friday. I was working on my third glass of Italian Barolo, a medium bodied red, visiting with friends around our office conference table.
“What made you take up wine making? I’m sure it isn’t an abundance of spare time,” Rick, a friend and fellow trout fisherman asked, cradling a glass of [...]