Schrems West Michigan Trout Unlimited is excited to host renowned fisherman and fly tier Dick Walle. Join us at Watermark Country Club to see Dick present soft hackle tying and fishing techniques. Dick has been fly fishing since age five and has tied at major expositions throughout the Midwest. He is a member of several conservation groups and a founder of Reeling for Healing, a group providing fly fishing retreats for breast cancer survivors. Dick and his wife Judy reside in Toledo, OH and have a cottage on the Holy Waters of the Au Sable. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Feb. 20!
Location: Watermark Country Club
Date: Friday, February 26th
Time: Doors and Bar open at 5:30 dinner will be served at 6:30
RSVP: By February 20th to info@swmtu.org or call Jay Cook at 616-745-5951
What is a Home Rivers Initiative? Well, it is a collaborative multi-year major watershed restoration effort. What does that mean? It means that Trout Unlimited National, (the folks you send your $35 to every year) plan to hire a full time project manager/coordinator to indentify, prioritize, and implement restoration efforts on our Rogue River for a minimum of three years. It means you are going to be reading about the Rogue River in the national publication TROUT that you receive quarterly, and that a whole lot of effort is going to be placed on making the Rogue a better coldwater river.
Are you excited? I hope so because we sure are. We started down the path to making the Rogue TU National’s next Home Rivers Initiative back in the spring of 2008. We are now so close to kicking this project off I can taste it.
Stay tuned to this blog as I will be adding more content in the near future. In the meantime, if you have any questions please post them and I will do my best to answer.
Tom Quail, the MCTU Conservation Chair, sent out a message last week and we think it’s worth passing along because it is so timely and so close to home.
The MDNRE is taking your public comments until February 16 on CAFO discharge permits. Your messages will help safeguard coldwater fisheries from large-scale animal waste producing operations.
Additionally, our chapter has been following this issue closely and put together info on why CAFOs are so important here in West Michigan.
Here’s Tom’s email … Read the rest of this entry »
More details to come …
Townhall Meeting with Rep. Vern Ehlers
Feb 22nd, 10:00-11:00 – Gerald Ford Museum Auditorium, Grand Rapids
By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer
The strategy released by the Obama administration this week agrees only to conduct a long-range study of that idea, which could take years. The government also refuses to shut down two navigational locks on Chicago waterways that could provide an easy pathway for the carp into the lakes, although it promises to consider opening them less often.