On Saturday May 4th we held our Stream Clean up event. This years target was the Esopus Creek tributaries, (Beaver Kill, Stony Clove, Woodland Valley, Peck Hollow, Broadstreet Hollow)
Thank you to chapter members, Ted Hoover, Jim Littlefoot, Ted Skarr, and Mac McDonald who came out to volunteer and help collect a pickup truck load of trash at selected stream access locations.
4th Annual ASHOKAN WATERSHED CONFERENCE
“Designing Resilient Watershed Communities”
Saturday April 27, 2013 9:00am—3:00pm
For registration information See www.ashokanstreams.org
Stream Cleanup 2013
We have organized another stream cleanup this year.
This year our target will be the Esopus Creek tributaries, (Beaver Kill, Stony Clove, Woodland Valley, Peck Hollow, Broadstreet Hollow) We are looking for volunteers to help with the cleanup and with removal of the trash we collect.
Meeting location: Pull off between Emerson Resort and Spa, and Catskill Mountain Railroad on route 28 at 9:00 AM
When: Saturday May 4th .
Time: 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Maps of locations and trash bags will be provided. Please bring gloves and volunteers.
Post cleanup pizza at Brio’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Phoenicia at 12:00 for all volunteers followed by some afternoon fishing.
Please send an email to Ted Hoover thoover@hvc.rr.com if you would like to participate. We also need members with pickup trucks to help collect the bagged trash.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 6:45 PM. We will begin our meeting early so we can have enough time for our guest speaker and presentation of our annual scholarship to a student at UCCC in Water Management/Science classes. After a brief business meeting we will have a presentation of the recipient of this year’s Art Flick Scholarship Award. This year’s recipient is Kieran Pierce and he loves fishing, is very interested in conservation, and is certainly in need of economic assistance to further his studies. After the Regular Meeting, we have Mike Flaherty from Region 3 DEC and Bob Angyal to discuss the studies of last year and what we can expect from this year on the Esopus Creek.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 7:00 PM. Before the meeting a tying demonstration will begin at 6:15 PM if someone would like to volunteer to do a couple flies. This is always an attraction to members to learn and ask questions. Please get back to Ron Urban so he can let others know about a tying demonstration. After a brief business meeting we will have a very interesting presentation on our watersheds around the Esopus Creek. Nicole McShane from the Catskill Center for Conservation will do a short presentation on the Catskill Center’s current work to protect riparian buffers in the West of Hudson watershed and the positive impacts that protection could have on fishing and recreation in the region. She will also have the Executive Director, Alan White, joining her so I hope we can have a good turn out for their time to come and present to us. It may coincide with our Conservation Committee and their vision for work in the future. Friends and public always invited.
Meeting- The Regular Business Meeting will begin approximately at 7:15 PM. A tying demonstration will begin approximately at 6:15 PM by our guest speaker. He will demonstrate and tie caddis nymphs that are useful on the Housatonic River. After his presentation and then a brief business meeting we will have a raffle of several items. One being a book entitled “About Trout” by Dr. Robert Behnke. Please make an effort to support these speakers by attending the meeting.
Guest Speaker Bio: Adam Franceschinni, a year-round professional guide and head guide for Housatonic River Outfitters, will provide a presentation on fishing the Housatonic River. He is a field tester for Orvis and has fished the American west, the Amazon, and in Alaska where he guides at Tickchik Narrows Lodge in the Bristol Bay area during summers. Adam began guiding on the famed rivers of western Montana, where he quickly learned how to navigate a drift boat on big water. Since then, he has guided on the San Juan, where the well-known Baetis hatches helped him refine his sight nymphing skills, and the Amazon basin of Brazil, where he chased peacock bass on the fly. Over the past five years he has used his boat handling skills, as well as his excellent indicator nymphing techniques, to help him catch some of Alaska’s massive leopard rainbow trout. In 2010, Adam was named Head Guide at Housatonic River Outfitters. Growing up just 15 miles from the Housatonic, Adam has fished much of the local waters. Guiding wading trips, drift boat trips, and instructing classes, Adam has made a home, once again guiding on the water he where learned to fish.
Meeting- Our regular meeting will begin at 7 PM. After our Business Meeting we will have a presentation on the Hudson River Estuary Programs. Presenting will be Francis Dunwell, DEC Region 3 Hudson River Estuary Coordinator. Two years ago, staff from Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, the Izaak Walton League of America and other sportsmen’s groups described the impacts of climate change to coldwater fisheries, big game, upland birds, and waterfowl in the book Seasons’ End (7.5MB pdf). Now, a new book, Beyond Seasons’ End (5MB pdf), tells us what we can do to protect our sporting traditions and fish and wildlife populations in today’s changing climate conditions. In the chapter on coldwater fisheries, TU staffers Jack Williams, Amy Haak and Nat Gillespie discuss how to protect and conserve trout and salmon and the coldwater ecosystems in which they thrive in the face of a changing climate. The Hudson River Estuary Program in New York manages a budget of $3 million, from which it underwrites watershed plans, provides education programs, directly monitors and improves the Hudson River estuary in strategic ways. http://www.tu.org/beyond-seasons-end.
Estuary Program web site: www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4920.html
»Action Alert | December 19, 2012
Please visit our online action center today and urge New York to adequately protect the state’s trout streams from shale gas development.
WHY WE CARE
New York boasts more than 60,000 miles of streams and rivers that provide cold, clean water for trout and fishing opportunities for more than 1.2 million anglers in the state. These streams and rivers are at risk from shale gas development. New York recently released revised regulations that will govern how shale gas development and hydrofracking will occur in the state. Unfortunately, the new regulations fail to include protections for many of the state’s treasured trout streams. Specifically, the regulations fail to include a required distance between a well pad and a river or stream. Tell New York today to protect all of its streams and the trout populations along with them.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please visit our online action center today and submit written comments on New York’s revised gas drilling regulations, to:
Sincerely,
Katy Dunlap
Eastern Water Project Director
Trout Unlimited
kdunlap@tu.org
Ron Urban
Chair
New York State Council of Trout Unlimited
Chapter Christmas Party- Fair Street Reformed Church. We will have a terrific night beginning about 6 PM on Thursday December 13th with guests and members present. As always we will be entertained by Chef Fritz Sonnenschmidt with his dynamic, humorous culinary expertise. As always you are asked to bring something for the Pot Luck dinner as your contribution. If you have an idea of item or what you can contribute, contact: Ron Urban at (845)339-5938 or Ronsgonefishing@aol.com We again will have some raffle items and hope that the season would be happy and prosperous for the New Year. The Chef is thinking of making a Serbian Rice Dish with a Curry Tomato Sauce and Marinated Shredded Lettuce.
