Information on the Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative project has now been posted on the Trout Unlimited website. Check it out at http://www.tu.org/conservation/watershed-restoration-home-rivers-initiative/rogue-river.
Category: Conservation
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Home Rivers Project Presented at Annual Meeting of Rogue River Watershed Council
I have been asked by the Rogue River Watershed Council to present information about the Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative project at their Annual Meeting. The meeting is open to the public and will be held on December 1st at 7:00 p.m. at the Rockford Community Cabin.
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Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative Project in the News
The Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative Project is featured in the Rockford Squire this week. Take a look… http://rockfordsquire.com/2010/11/04/rogue-chosen-among-nation-for-restoration/
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State of TU 2010
At the recent National TU meeting, Chris Wood, President and CEO of TU, gave the 2010 State of TU address. If you’re interested in the direction of the organization, these videos are well worth watching. The first one is embedded below, and the others can be found on YouTube. State of TU – part 2...
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Rogue River TU project set to kick off
SWMTU raised $315,000 from major local donors that include the Wege Foundation, Frey Foundation, Wolverine Worldwide Foundation, along with individual and chapter donations. The money will pay for staff and to set up the local Home River office for the Rogue River.
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Schrems West Michigan Chapter Receives Trout Unlimited’s Highest Award
Trout Unlimited has awarded its top national chapter honor for 2010 to the Schrems West Michigan Chapter. The Gold Trout chapter award is granted annually to the chapter that has made the most noteworthy contribution to the cause of coldwater conservation during the previous year.
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Dolan Habitat Improvement Project – Update
If you haven't visited the project site, please do so...you'll be impressed.
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DNRE proposes 73 more miles of gear-restricted trout streams
The public has additional opportunities to comment on the proposal at the Oct. 7, Nov. 4, and Dec. 9 meetings of the Natural Resources Commission in Lansing.
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More habitat structure installed in Pigeon River
Lead by Don Messinger, several volunteers met at Hemlock Crossings Park on Saturday to work on the Pigeon River with Josh Zuiderveen of Streamworks LLC. The group installed some habitat and cleaned a stretch of the river of debris. (see more pictures) Fortunately the garbage picked up was significantly lower than two years ago when...
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Logs are going into place on the Coldwater
Chain saws running, the backhoe at work; the Dolan habitat project is moving forward! Aaron Snell and Jackson Dirt Works are hard at it, installing log barbs in the Coldwater River.