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When you finish this newsletter the first thing to do is reserve
your seat at PastaFest, 
an opportunity to see old friends and
make new ones, bid on guided trips, fishing equipment and more, enjoy great food, enjoy speaker Jack Gartside, and enjoy live music by The Wildlife Refugees, all while supporting our chapter of Trout Unlimited - GBTU.
I want to spotlight two local businesses, Andy Bonzagni, owner of Concord Outfitters in West Concord, and Mike Wilmerding, of FireFly Outfitters in downtown Boston. Both have offered to contribute to GBTU a portion of revenues from sales to our members. Details will be described in the next Currents. Please shop at Concord Outfitters and FireFly Outfitters, and be sure to mention you’re a member. Thanks, Andy and Michael!
We’re adding a feature on www.GBTU.org: A list of Volunteer Opportunities supporting our mission. For example:
Monthly first-Saturday “workdays at Red Brook” – a freshwater stream near East Wareham, MA flowing directly into the ocean (Buttermilk Bay), home to one of the last remaining native sea-run brook trout (known as “salters”) fisheries in the eastern US. There’s always room for volunteers from cleanup to monitoring the salters’ migration.
Closer to Boston: a project on the Assabet, a federally-designated “Wild and Scenic River” running through Worcester and Middlesex Counties and flowing into the Concord. Miles McCloy, chapter member, Concord resident, and student at Goddard College, designed a project in connection with his course work that will determine whether stocked trout can survive in a section of the Assabet flowing through West Concord. More to come...check the Volunteer Opportunities page of the GBTU web site (www.GBTU.org) for details as available.
Political: Support passage of legislation authorizing the “Environmental Bond” supporting State environmental projects. (www.envirobond.org).
Professional: TU’s attorney working on water flow legislation/regulation could use assistance in preparing amicus briefs in MA proceedings, drafting comments, etc. Attorneys and stream flow/water quality experts should get back to me if you can/will help.
I look forward to meeting many of you at PastaFest next month.
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This streamside chat appears in the March - April 2008 issue of Currents.
Read the January 2008 Streamside Chat.