May meeting update We had an awesome May meeting with casting extraordinaire
Brian Ramsey. Brian was full of information and demonstrations
on how to improve casting efficiency. Many chapter members
went home with valuable techniques to try on their next outing on
the water. Brian also graciously volunteered to help out with
some of our chapter functions in the future!
Thanks!
Important
Chapter News
We have elected new officers for 2010-
2011!
President: Eric Rauch
Vice President: Steve Fruechte
Treasurer: Bob Hubbard
Secretary: Open
A HUGE thanks to Rick Kyte (out going President) for all
of his work for the chapter over the last 4 years!
Coulee Chapter Announces Major Project
The Coulee
Region Chapter of Trout Unlimited will coordinate a major stream
restoration project in Vernon County involving
federal, state, county agencies beginning
in the spring of 2008. The $240,000 project will be completed
over a four year period and restore 6,000 feet of stream banks
on Coon Creek and Spring Coulee Creek, located just northeast of Coon Valley
near County Highway P.
Coulee
Region TU,
a local conservation group with 190 members, recently received a
$180,000 Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP) grant from the Natural Resources
Conservation Service of the United States Department of
Agriculture. WHIP is a program that provides technical assistance and
up to seventy-five percent cost sharing to develop and improve wildlife
habitat. The remaining $60,000 for the project will be
contributed from other sources, including local fund raising
efforts.
According to
Sam Skemp, District Conservation Officer for the NRCS Viroqua
Service Center, the project proposal ranked
very high with the NRCS because of the number
of at-risk species that the project will be able to benefit. Skemp
added, “This is the largest WHIP funded project
ever in the state of Wisconsin.”
Eric Rauch, Coulee Region TU Vice President & Conservation Chair, noted
that “the overall goal with this project is to increase the water quality
and species habitat in
the Coon Creek/Spring Coulee
Chapter
Report:
WE NEED
HELP!!!!
If you
are at all interested in volunteering to help with chapter
activities or for the open secretary position PLEASE contact. Eric
Rauch
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