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Friends of the River Clean-up September 13, 2008
GRTU is proud to sponsor the 2008 Friends for the Rivers clean-up on September 13, 2008.
* Cleanup headquarters and festivities are at Cypress Bend Park (CBP) located on Commons next to the river. Directions to CBP www.ffr.org
* We are assigned the Rio to White Water section so will meet at Rio Raft RV park no later than 9:00 a.m.
* Directions to Rio Raft http://www.rioraft.com/map.html.
* All participants will receive a free T-shirt. (In order to receive the shirt, you must register at event registration at CBP)
We should be finished no later than noon.
The chapter is already preregistered, so if you would like to volunteer, please contact Corby Bittner at cbittner@tmlirp.org or on his mobile at 512-914-8309.
Look forward to seeing all of you out there for this great event. |
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Coldwater Outreach Conservation Fund Recognition
On Saturday June 28, the Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited (CMTU) will plant this sign on the South Platte River in Eleven Mile Canyon at Camp Alexander in recognition of the contribution made by GRTU through our Coldwater Outreach Conservation grant. This sign will be seen by the thousands of Boy Scouts that utilize this private water stretch of the South Platte in their fishing program, including many that come from Texas to visit this camp in the summer. The project is known as “Trees for Trout”, since it improves stream habitat and flow profiles by planting large tree root balls that come from the Hayman fire area.
Jeff Schmitt, GRTU Past President and National Leadership Council representative, will attend the sign planting ceremony on behalf of GRTU. Other GRTU members who may be in the Denver/Colorado Springs area fishing next weekend have been invited to attend the ceremony and fish this water in the afternoon. If you would like to attend, please contact Jeff Schmitt (jeffs@prodigy.net) as soon as possible and copy Greg Walck (gregorywalck@msn.com) of CMTU
This is the second prominent marker for our Coldwater Outreach grant program. Last year a sign with GRTU’s name was placed on Trout Run Creek after we contributed to a stream bank improvement project in conjunction with the local TU chapters in Minnesota.
This year’s COC grant went to the Truchas River Chapter in New Mexico, who will use our funding to assist with a NEPA environmental study on Los Alamitos creek, which is targeted for a stream barrier project to protect native Rio Grande cutthroat trout from encroachment by non-native species that would eventually drastically reduce or wipe out the native trout. When that project moves forward to its eventual completion, another marker of our chapters conservation outreach efforts will be placed on waters that we all value, no matter where they may lie.
Jeff |
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GRTU and flow agreement gets some good press
| GRTU and our flow agreement got some good press in the San Antonio paper the week 5/23/08. The article about how the tubers on the Guadalupe river should thank the trout for the current flows on the river. Here is a link to the on-line article. MySA.com Outdoors |
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