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OPPORTUNITY WAITS!! As we move into 2008, your chapter board has put together many opportunities for you to get involved. If your interests lie in stream and habitat restoration, planting, mentoring and/or education for kids, do we have a deal for you! We need your help and are arranging events from one to three days with campovers. If you have an interest in education, we will be working in three areas this year. Through the spring, we will be working with the Clackamas Ranger District to put together an 85 gallon aquarium that will feature fish from the Clackamas watershed and will be rotated through Estacada schools and the Estacada branch of the Clackamas County Library. If you have any expertise in aquarium management we definitely could use your help. June 7 is the annual kids fishing day at Promontory Park. We will need help for a number of jobs including fishing helpers, fish cleaners, and education on TU etc. Our annual Kids Fly Fishing Camp will be held July 25-28. We need volunteers to work one on one with kids in areas like casting and fishing, fly tying, stream habitats and invertebrates, stream etiquette and fun! Our conservation agenda for the year is also full. We will have several one day events with the Clackamas Ranger District USFS including repair of the Peg Leg Falls fish ladder. This one is worth it just for the greatness of the place! Watch the website for dates. The chapter will once again be hosting the Bull Trout Rendezvous in early October. If you have not been to these it is a great fall trip with camping on the Metolius, work with the Deschutes Basin Land Trust and some of the most challenging fishing in the state. For those of you that like the coast, we will be working with the Tualatin Chapter, the national office of Trout Unlimited, and the North Coast Land Conservancy to perform a watershed wide assessment based on TU’s Protect-Reconnect-Restore approach and then work on restoration projects on the Necanicum River and its tributaries. Watch for dates on this one. All of our efforts require grassroots help and we need you to make it happen. Have a great fishing and conservation year and we look forward to seeing all of you. Thank you for your continued support, Dick Hollenbeck - President | ||
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