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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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