Spawn Creek fencing and restoration project
State Trout Unlimited Council Newsletter for January and February 2004:
The next quarterly Utah Council Meeting will be held on:
February
21, 2004, 9:00am
Provo River Project Office, Heber Utah
Directions: from SLC, travel east on I-80 to Silver Creek Junction (Hwy 40),
travel south on Hwy 40 past the Jordanelle Reservoir , downhill, crossing the
Provo river, to the traffic light (the Midway and Kamas turnoffs). Turn right,
west and drive until you cross the first canal, just past the canal turn right,
north into the Project Office parking lot.
On the agenda are the following items:
- Int. Sage show – Tim Linhan’s request March 11-19
- Website follow-up and discussion
- BLM's new grazing regulations
- Saturday morning meetings vs Tues dinner meetings
- Letter that was sent to the DWR
- St. George/Cedar Chapters
- State tax exempt status for TU and chapters
- RAC letter
If you have items to add to the agenda please send them to Stefanie Hullinger at stefanie@brag.dst.ut.us
Upcoming
activities
for some of the Chapters include:
Some of the activities and educational benefits along with our conservation
efforts to be done this year include:
- Youth fly tying course—Cache Angler’s –early February for 4 weeks, limited to between 10-15 depending on the number of adults helping.
- Youth fly casting and First Cast Program- Cache Angler’s –summer.
- Urban Fisheries Program in Logan with the DWR, and City of Logan and Smithfield—starts April 8th
- Women Only Fly Fishing Course—Cache Angler’s—July limited to 20 women and you do not have to be TU members to attend!
- Working with various agencies in doing fish count surveys and protecting important watersheds from grazing problems and the spread of whirling disease.
- Stream improvement and repairing plantings in City Creek and Little Dell Creek watersheds.
- Assisting Utah DWR spawning Bonneville cutthroat trout at Little Dell Creek / Reservoir, June 2004.
- Assisting U.S. FWS in spawning Lakontan cutthroat trout at Pilot Peak, April 2004.
- Spawning channel maintenance with Goshute Tribe first week of April 2004.
- Assisting Utah DWR in spawning and incubation box setup on the Strawberry River tributary.
March 18th, Thursday, 7:00 PM - Monthly Stonefly Society Program Meeting -
Management of Provo River - Keith Denos, Provo Water Users Association
Salt Lake Fish and Game Association Meeting House
Keith Denos is the General Manager for the Provo River Water Users Association. In that role, he manages the flow through the Duchesne (tunnel) diversion, Weber River Diversion at Oakley, and the waters of the Provo River Watershed. Keith will discuss this years' anticipated water supply and how they will manage the Provo River. He will also be able to answer questions concerning the interrelated operations of Jordanelle and Deer Creek Reservoirs, including what flows may be anticipated this summer in the middle and lower Provo River. In the past, the Provo Water Users have not always been concerned managing the Provo River to benefit the environment and fishery. Keith has been very concerned about reversing this policy of the past.
For additional information: Paul Dremann at 467-3862
National News
Don Duff, Senior Aquatic Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service has retired January 2, 2004. Don was the national liaison to Trout Unlimited from 1990 to 2003. In retirement he'll be working for TU as an Aquatic Resource Consultant on special project coordination dealing with native trout restoration and river-? restoration, primarily in the western states. He will continue to assist the Utah Council and Chapters in TU EAS projects and other ongoing activities associated with these projects in the Great Basin area. Don can be contacted at Trout Unlimited, P.O. Box 11861, Salt Lake City, UT 84147 (tudtrout@aol.com).
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