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Help Us Pass the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act - click for article
Action Required (7/21/08):
There are only nine business days left before the legislature goes home for the summer. If the Environmental Bond does not pass the legislature by July 31 the state will lose an entire year of protecting open spaces, ensuring water quality, maintaining our parks and more as the legislature will not take this up again until next year.
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Environmental Bond Bill Released - click for article
Current Issue (6/13/08):
The Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets released the Environmental Bond Bill today. We are grateful the work that the members of the Committee and their staff put into this.
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Help Us Pass the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act - click for article
Action Required (6/5/08):
Help us pass this historic bill through the U.S. Senate, to help stop the harmful effects of climate change and protect the nation's trout and salmon streams.
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Join Us at the State House on Wednesday, April 9 - click for article
Action Required (3/30/08):
Mark your calendar! Wednesday, April 9 at 10 AM we need as many people as possible to come to the State House (gathering first at AMC at 5 Joy St.) in Boston to tell the legislature that it must pass the Environmental Bond this session!
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Support the Environmental Bond Bill - click for article
Action Required (3/24/08):
Help us tell the legislature that it must pass the
Environmental Bond this session.
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Massachusetts Environmental Bond Bill Update - click for article
Action Required (3/17/08):
There is going to be a hearing on the Massachusetts Environmental Bond Bill on
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1 p.m. This bill will be heard by the Joint Committee on
Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets, on Wednesday, March 19,
1:00 pm in room 222 at the State House. Please help pass this vital bill.
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Massachusetts Environmental Bond Bill Pending in Legislature - click for article
Current Issue (2/19/08):
There is going to be a hearing on the Massachusetts Environmental Bond Bill on
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1 p.m. Your help is needed to promote its passage. If approved, funds from this bill will be available for land acquisition, water quality management, dam removal, and more.
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Feds: Kill Sea Lions to Protect Salmon - click for article
Current Issue (1/18/08):
A federal agency recommended killing about 30 sea lions a year at a Columbia River dam where the marine animals feast on salmon migrating upriver to spawn. By many estimates, the sea lions devour about 4 percent of spring runs. Fishermen and Columbia River tribes have urged action for years against the sea lions at Bonneville Dam.
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2007 Legislative Update - click for article
Current Issue (12/28/07):
We would like to update you briefly on some of the major end of the year legislative events. A number of these are benchmark events on which TU, and many of you, have invested considerable time and energy. As ever here in Washington, DC, some have turned out well, and some have not.
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Funding for Dam Removal on the Penobscot - click for article
Current Issue (12/21/07):
TU Headquarters has announced a significant success in obtaining federal funds to support removing dams on Maine 's Penobscot River . The Omnibus Appropriations bill that passed Congress in December included the $10 million for the Penobscot restoration project on which we'd been working for four years.
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MA/RI Council Chairman's Message: Protecting Sea-Run Brookies - click for article
Current Issue (11/14/07):
Because nobody has looked hard to discover just how many sea-run brook trout we have, they are an unknown commodity at this point. And unprotected. Because Massachusetts has no closed season on trout any longer, these fish, which are on spawning redds as I write, are vulnerable to intrusion from various sources, including unknowing, or worse, knowing anglers.
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President Declares Stripers a Game Fish - click for article
Current Issue (10/20/07):
President George Bush signed a new executive order directing the federal government to make the striped bass a game fish in federal waters, and encouraging states that haven't already done so to adopt this management tool within their state waters.
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Red Brook Family Day Sunday, September 16 - click for article
Event (8/28/07):
Red Brook Family Day will be held Sunday, September 16, 2007
at the Lyman Preserve at Red Brook, on Head of the Bay Road in Wareham. It is a fundraiser to help support the stream and its management.
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Invasive Algae Species Found in New England - click for article
Current Issue (7/26/07):
An invasive species of algae, commonly called “didymo” or “rock snot,” has been found in the Upper Connecticut River and in Vermont 's White River. New England TU Members need to pull together to help stop the spread of didymo before it devastates wild trout populations.
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Help Stop Industrial Mining in Alaska’s Bristol Bay - click for article
Current Issue (5/15/07):
Join us in the campaign to keep Bristol Bay from being developed into a massive mining district, anchored by the proposed Pebble Mine project located north and east of Lake Iliamna.
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Sign the Salmon Consumer's Bill of Rights- click for article
Current Issue (4/30/07):
Harnessing the political and economic power of people who buy and sell
salmon defines TU's new wild salmon campaign. The foundation for this
effort is the Salmon Consumer's Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities.
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NLC Meeting About Stream Access - click for article
Current Issue (3/23/07):
It is the sense of the NLC that the process used to develop the Resolutions was fatally flawed and poor governance.
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The Issue of Access - click for article
Current Issue (3/20/07):
Three weeks ago the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of TU National resigned. In his letter, he stated his resignation was over the issue of stream access.
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Help TU Make the Farm Bill Fish-Friendly - click for article
Action Required (3/14/07):
Funding directly benefiting fisheries and stream habitat represents less than 4.5 percent of the allocations made from the Farm Bill conservation programs. Tell Congress that we need a fish friendly farm bill.
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Court Decision Supports River Access
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Current Issue (2/12/07):
This New York Times article describes an early success in the ongoing battle between private owners of land abutting rivers and streams and the fly fishermen seeking to wade in these waters
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We Are TU - click for article
Current Issue (1/29/07):
At the end of last year I agreed to serve as the Council Chairman, a tour of duty usually lasting three years. My job for the next three years is to keep answering the question "What is the relevance of this organization to any of you and to me?"
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Two Changes: PastaFest and Collaboration of GBTU on Red Brook - click for article
Current Issue (12/12/06):
Next year's PastaFest, to be held on April 1, 2007 at the Hibernian Hall in Watertown, will debut some new features.
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2006 PastaFest Success; 2007 Plans Underway - click for article
Current Issue (10/05/06):
GBTU's 2006 PastaFest was a success, raising over $5,000. As in the past, most of the money was donated to conservation projects.
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Back to the Penobscot - click for article
Current Issue (10/04/06):
From September 15 to October 15, 2006 , anglers began fishing for Atlantic salmon in the United States for the first time in seven years.
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Help Stock Salmon Fry in the Merrimack River Watershed - click to learn more.
Action Required (04/08/06):
From Monday, April 17th through Tuesday, May 9th, volunteer to help with the transfer of salmon fry in New Hampshire. For details, contact Vikki Leonard of the New Hampshire Fish and Game at 603-271-2501.
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Help Stop the Sale of Our Public Lands - click for article
Current Issue (03/25/06):
We need your help to stop yet another fire sale of our nation's public fishing and hunting areas.
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TU Takes Position on Water Quality Standards - click for article
Current Issue (03/04/06):
The Greater Boston Chapter and the MA/RI Council both took positions that will improve trout and salmon habitat in rivers and streams throughout the state.
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Battenkill Work Day - click to learn more.
Action Required (03/03/06):
Saturday, April 22nd. Battenkill Work Day in conjunction with Green Up VT Day.
Participate in a project on the Battenkill River to dramatically improve habitat.
Interested parties contact Doug Lyons at ddclyons1@aol.com. Visit www.tuswvt.org for more information.
Click to learn more.
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Atlantic Salmon News - click for article
Current Issue (02/14/06):
There’s some good news for Atlantic salmon anglers taking a break this winter. In all likelihood, the Penobscot River will be open to catch-and-release fishing in 2006.
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Documentary: "Relics and Rivers: Dismantling Dams in New England" - click for article
Action Required (11/10/05):
Join the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust for this NOAA documentary that shows how the first coastal dam removal in Massachusetts was completed.
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Herring and Shad Fisheries Restoration in the Sudbury and Concord Rivers - click for article
Action Required (07/10/05):
The US Fish and Wildlife herring and shad restoration program needs your help.
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Housatonic Restoration Underway - click for article
Current Issue (03/24/05):
Removal of contaminated soil from the Housatonic River in Pittsfield is 60 percent completed.
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Riverways Under Pressure Again - click for article
Action Required (03/18/05):
Riverways is under pressure from the Romney administration. With the current proposed funding level, two positions will be lost.
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Recreational Saltwater Anglers Exceed One Million for 2004 - click for article
Items of Interest to Fishermen (03/17/05):
More than one million recreational saltwater anglers went fishing in Massachusetts waters in 2004.
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Herring Population Declining - click for article
Action Required (03/16/05):
The numbers of herring returning to rivers and streams throughout the Commonwealth each spring to spawn are dropping.
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Riverways News and Notes - click for article
Items of Interest to Fishermen (02/11/05):
All the Riverways Programs are based on the belief that local action and partnerships are key to river protection and restoration.
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Positive News on Haddock Fish Stocks - click for article
Current Issue (01/05/05):
The 2003 year class of haddock is estimated to be higher than the 1963 year class, which was estimated at 486 million fish.
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Rebuilding of Dam Proposed on Kennebec Tributary - click for article
Current Issue (01/04/05):
Owners of a breached dam on a tributary to the Kennebec River running through Waterville, Maine, have proposed rebuilding the dam and impounding 1.25 miles of the Messalonskee Stream.
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Blackstone River Study Underway - click for article
Current Issue (01/03/05):
A study to explore restoration options on the Blackstone River is currently underway.
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