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Bellevue-Issaquah
Chapter 109
Officers
for
2013
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Name |
Phone |
Email |
| President |
Robert
Metzger |
(425)
765-1035 |
Email Robert |
| Vice President |
Dave Probart |
(206) 713-3465
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| Secretary |
Bill Gerdts |
(425) 228-4866 |
Email Bill
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| Treasurer |
Shirley Vander
Veen |
(425) 747-8698 |
Email Shirley |
| Conservation/Education
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Mark
Taylor |
(206) 200-2840 |
Email Mark |
| Fun Run |
Gary Smith
& Mark Taylor |
| Kokanee Work
Group |
Mark Taylor
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| Development/Fundraising |
Mark Taylor |
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Email Mark |
| Communications |
Bill Gerdts
& Gary Smith |
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| Salmon Days
Chair |
Dave Probart |
(206) 713-3465 |
Email Dave |
| Fry Counting
& Planting |
Mark
Getzendaner & Robert Metzger |
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| Fishing Outings |
John Silvey
& Rick Farmer |
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| Membership |
Mark Taylor
& John Silvey
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| Casting Clinic |
Dave Probart
& Robert Metzger |
(206) 713-3465 |
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| At Large Board
Members |
Dave Probart,
John Silvey, Gary Smith , Mark Taylor |
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Board
Meeting Minutes
(click
on a month to read the minutes)
Awards for 2012
Awards
are as follows:
Conservation
Award - Our
chapter gave this award to
Wally Peyera for his generous contribution that allowed
replacement of
 a
large culvert on his property on Ebright Creek. As a result
of replacement of the culvert, kokanee are now have access to
additional spawning areas above his property on Ebright Creek.
Fisherman of the Year - This
award
was given to Fred Timms. Fred is an
avid fly fisherman who, besides
catching lots of fish, is willing to share his knowledge with other
fellow fishermen. Congratulatins Fred!
Certificate of Recognition for Support of Kokanee
Recovery - This special award was given to
Matt Mattson,
Snoqualmie Tribal Administrator. The Snoqualmie Tribe was the lead
sponsor for our Fun Run held in October at Lake Sammamish State Park,
participates in the annual kokanee fry release and continues to be a
major supported of kokanee recovery in the Lake Sammamish watershed.
Trout Unlimited’s
Vision, Mission, Values &
Goals
OUR
VISION
By
the next generation, Trout
Unlimited will ensure that robust populations of native and wild
coldwater fish once again thrive within their North American range, so
that our children can enjoy healthy fisheries in their home waters.
OUR MISSION
To conserve, protect, and
restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
OUR VALUES
HEALTHY WATERSHEDS &
CLEAN WATER
We are committed to ensuring quantities of cold, clean water sufficient
to sustain healthy fish populations and to watershed restoration and
wise fisheries
management.
WILD
& NATIVE TROUT & SALMON
Healthy
populations of native
and wild fish are the best indicators of watershed health, and we are
committed to the protection and restoration of these fish where
ecologically sustainable.
STEWARDSHIP
& ADVOCACY
As
stewards for future
generations, we employ sound science and work cooperatively with a
broad spectrum of interests in defending and advocating for our natural
resource legacy.
COMMITMENT
TO MEMBERS
We owe our uniqueness to a
passionately committed, diverse, volunteer network of
members who pursue our mission in their local councils and chapters. We
will sustain this member network through representative governance and
a continuous
commitment to grassroots support, learning, and development.
QUALITY
PEOPLE
In the pursuit of our cause,
our most important resource is our people – both staff and volunteers –
who sustain and support each other’s work.
OUR GOALS
Strengthen TU’s leadership in
coldwater conservation nationally, regionally & locally.
Better integrate and enhance the development of the TU team.
Increase public awareness of TU and its mission.
Increase and motivate an effective membership.
Diversify and grow sources of revenue.
Achieve financial stability and security.
Chum
fishing on the Skagit.History
July 2009 will mark the 50th anniversary of TU’s founding, on the banks
of the Au Sable River near Grayling, Michigan. The 16 fishermen who
gathered at the home of George Griffith were united by their love of
trout fishing, and by their growing disgust with the state’s practice
of stocking its waters with “cookie cutter trout”—catchable-sized
hatchery fish. Convinced that Michigan’s trout streams could turn out a
far superior fish if left to their own devices, the anglers formed a
new organization: Trout, Unlimited (the comma was dropped a few years
later).
From the beginning, TU was
guided by the principle that if we “take care of the fish, then the
fishing will take care of itself.” And that principle was grounded in
science. “One of our most important objectives is to develop programs
and recommendations based on the very best information and thinking
available,” said TU’s first president, Dr. Casey E. Westell Jr. “In all
matters of trout management, we want to know that we are substantially
correct, both morally and biologically.”
In 1962-63, TU prepared its
first policy statement on wild trout, and persuaded the Michigan
Department of Natural Resources to discard “put-and-take” trout
stocking and start managing for wild trout and healthy habitat. On the
heels of that success, anglers quickly founded TU chapters in Illinois,
Wisconsin, New York, and Pennsylvania.
TU won its first national
campaign in 1965: Stopping the construction of the Reichle dam on
Montana’s Big Hole River. Five years later, TU helped secure a ban on
high-seas fishing for Atlantic salmon. And in 1971, TU took legal
action to protect the last free-flowing stretch of the Little Tennessee
River. Perhaps one of the most significant early applications of the
Endangered Species Act, the action stopped the Tellico dam, but only
temporarily: An eleventh-hour congressional appropriations rider later
doomed TU’s victory.
TU’s recent accomplishments
include:
º Securing
permanent protection of 140,000 acres in California's Sierra Nevada in
the Pacific Gas & Electric bankruptcy settlement.
º Negotiating a
water deal that permanently sets aside 10,000 acre-feet of water in
Montana's Bitterroot River.
º Employing
cutting-edge technology like thermal infrared imagery to direct
abandoned mine remediation work in Pennsylvania's Kettle Creek
watershed.
º Advocating
successfully for trout-friendly operation of five dams on the
Housatonic River.
º Uniting TU
members in five states in a broad-based, multi-partner effort to
restore brook trout in the Southern Appalachian mountains.
º Leading a
landmark effort to restore fishable Atlantic salmon runs on Maine's
Penobscot River.
º Coordinating the
Trout in the Classroom program, which teaches children in more than 100
schools about the importance of healthy aquatic ecosystems.
º Mobilizing
hunters and anglers to ensure responsible use and lasting protection of
the nation's public lands.
º Launching a
watershed-scale conservation effort in the 24,000-square-mile Driftless
region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.
Driven by a powerful and
dedicated grassroots network, TU is meeting the challenges of coldwater
conservation and protecting our rivers and fisheries for generations to
come.
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