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

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