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Trout Unlimited Idaho State Council Meeting October 29, 2011 McCall, Idaho -- Holiday Inn Express, Hunt Conference Room Minutes by Mr. John Ellsworth, with Mr. Darryl Kuhrt editing 0908 Meeting called to order by Mr. Chris Jones, Vice-Chair and Acting Chair. Mr. Jones asked for a volunteer to record the minutes. Mr. John Ellsworth, Ted Trueblood Chapter Board member, volunteered. Introductions: Mr. Jones asked each person to state their name, their role in TU, and with which chapter or TU office they are affiliated. Pam Elkovich – TU staff, Boise - Boise River Watershed Coordinator Greg McReynolds – TU staff, Pocatello - Sportsman Conservation Project Matt Woodard – TU staff, Idaho Falls - Project Mgr., S. Fork Snake Home Waters Chad Chorney – TU staff, Twin Falls Loren Albright – Panhandle Chapter Pete Renkert – Panhandle Chapter Carmen Northen – Hemingway Chapter, Idaho State TU NLC Representative Chris Jones – Ted Trueblood Chapter, Idaho State TU Council, Vice Chairman Boots Allen – Teton Valley Chapter Darryl Kuhrt – Ted Trueblood Chapter, Boise John Ellsworth – Ted Trueblood Chapter, Boise Leslie Freeman – Reed Gillespie Chapter, McCall Kim Apperson – Reed Gillespie Chapter, McCall, IDF&G Ed Northen – Hemingway Chapter, Hailey (Scott Stouder – joined the meeting at 11:30) Mr. Jones passed out two documents (appended to the end of these minutes): Idaho Trout Unlimited Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Report, and Idaho Trout Unlimited 2011 and 2012 Operating Budget. He noted that Andy Brunelle (not present), has included $1,500 for travel to North Carolina for next years' TU National meeting and $1,500 for the ITU mini-grants program; that Ms. Northen will discuss hosting the TU NW Regional meeting (will require $1,500 or so, not sure); and that Mr. Ellsworth will have a request later in this meeting for financial support for the Yellowstone National Park Native Fish Conservation Plan. Discussion followed. Motion to approve the Financial Report and Operating Budget made by Mr. Renkert, seconded by Mr. Northen; vote - unanimously approved. Chapter Reports: Mr. Northen gave a report on the Hemingway Chapter: President of Hemingway Chapter, 5 years, running again, unopposed. Chapter is 7 years old, has 160 members on roster, with 25-30 active members. Holds monthly meetings, occasional outings, developed a strategic plan, partners with local orgs and businesses. Projects: Partnering with Land Trust. Their primary focus on national TU's "Protect" component. Involved with issues of water transfer rights (Peter Anderson, Attorney, TU, Boise, is key in assisting), Big Wood river, de-watering; going into conservation easement (Heart Rock Ranch). Reconnect: Water flows below magic reservoir are a major issue in that it goes dry every year due to usage and rights. Studies show that 15 cfs is needed year- round to maintain a fishery. This year, the first time in 100+ years, there was enough precipitation received to provide a water right to allow 15 cfs to go through (as experiment). This project may require 35-50 years to complete. The Wood River Land Trust (WRLT) is supporting with Peter Anderson (TU) in Boise is the attorney. Additional Projects: Box Car Bend: partnering with WRLT. Silver Creek: restoration annually, planting, clear access, paint cabins, etc. Upper Big Lost: restoration with national, planted 750 willows 2 years ago, 2 years 75% alive. 2500 heavy cattle run through the area, destroyed habitat but not willows. Next year more fencing. Another Project: Sun Valley Adaptive Sports, USFS, and a local construction company built a fishing platform to provide access for special needs persons and children. Stocked by F&G, professionals and volunteers, kids enjoy it. Fishing access management for Big Wood River: volunteers, local boy scout eagle badge, Blaine County recreation district, IDF&G - 35 accesses kept clear, posted regulations signs on river in English and Spanish. Raised money for the signs because IDF&G didn't want to set a precedent by installing Spanish signs. Silver creek restoration: 2 parts: 1 on public section, fall 2010, willows harvested and planted on public section, doing well. A very simple way of applying willows: cutting and sticking in the river bank - 50% success on 200 cuttings in one afternoon. Oct. 8: planted 100 cuttings on Silver Creek Reserve with Dana (preserve mgr.), this is an ongoing project. Future Projects: Continue access cleanup. Healing meadows: Land Trust, City of Ketchum, river restoration; restore Kilpatrick Pond on Silver Creek, now being done privately. Continued restoration projects with USFS. Ms. Northen added: Our neighbor works for USFS, she asked me about TU signs, considers these signs to be the gold standard. Now the SNRA is going to do some climate change studies, partner with Hemingway chapter? We have preliminary contact, will talk later. Ms. Elkovich commented: The Science team is happy with this work. Sustain: Education: Youth intro to fishing, riparian systems, habitat, TIC not very successful, so instead Barry Ackerman started a program to take out special needs kids, YMCA, elementary schools. Currently seeing 125-150 kids participate annually fishing, visit to hatchery, visit to birding stations. Approximately 50% of fishing is fly rods, other is bait, and get to see catch and release in action. Kids really like to see the fish released. Mentor fishing: Partners with Sun Valley Adaptive Sports, donated a drift boat adapted for a wheelchair. Used to take wounded vets fishing. Worked unsuccessfully on Silver Creek regulations changes, 3 years working with IDF&G, difficult working relationship, but then TU members helped IDF&G with fish-shocking on Silver Creek, resulting in good public relations. Fish Rescues: Over 4,000 fish rescued last year. This year they have already rescued 4,000 fish, with one more rescue event to go. Fish were – a few sculpin, some trout (mostly small). A member built a fish transport tank complete with an oxygen/air tank and bubbler stones. Also working with canal companies to do slower water draw-downs, resulting in fewer fish stranded. 0939 Mr. Northen finished his formal remarks. Discussion: Mr. Jones: Are they done with the Silver Creek restoration being done by private individuals? Mr. Northen: No, it starts this fall. Kilpatrick pond has some problems with heating, Nature Conservancy has done studies in surrounding waters, to help work on this. $1M dollars in the fund, private owners will do it themselves. Mr. Jones: Dredging? Mr. Northen: Possibly some, not sure on the exact specifics. Intention is to create deeper areas. Regulations require the soil to be kept on site. Will probably build islands with it. Mr. Chorney: I heard they're going to build a large island. Mr. Northen: Also, one of the fish rescues is with the RR ranch, private/owner involved in this. 0942 moved to next report Mr. Chorney gave a report on SE Idaho Fly-Fishers (no representative from that chapter in attendance today): I attended their last meeting. They're trying to recruit new members and new leaders. Todd Carter will be President again, now Interim President, their Board votes to re-install next week. TU gave presentation on Bear River. 0943 Mr. Chorney finished his formal remarks. Ms. Northen: Will anyone update us on what's going on with Bear River? Mr. Chorney: There's no one here today to do that. Mr. Chorney gave a report on Magic Valley fly fishers chapter: They are in need of a new President and more members. It's a tough sell. Ben Collins is still President, but wants out. The banquet last year had 160-180 people and did raise some funds. Another banquet will be held in Jan/Feb: Jim Teeney will be there Christmas party: Mr. Allen will address this later. Last year: habitat improvement on an area with a genetically pure strain YCT. Trying to keep this area intact - Six Mile Creek. Another project on 8-mile creek this year fell through, not enough people involved and last minute USFS changes. This will be worked on this next year. There will be willow planting today on Little Wood River with IDF&G, Dennis Brower is the TU member who leads/organizes that. There are several outings per year. Mr. Jones: Where on Little Wood is the planting? Mr. Chorney: Jim Brown bridge is where they're meeting, not sure which section of river they're planting at. Discussed buying a drift boat to raffle off to raise funds. Clack-A-Craft offered a great discount for a boat to raffle off, but there wasn't a decision or follow through. 0948 Mr. Chorney finished his formal remarks. Mr. Renkert gave a report on the Panhandle chapter: We currently have five in our TIC (trout in the classroom) program. We continue to donate magazines to local middle and high schools. We had boy scouts involved in earning 2 merit badges - fishing and fly-fishing. Attended 2 days in Hayden, sixteen signed up for merit badges, 2 days at 8 hrs/day. Had an outing to the Clark Fork, boy scouts, 20 kids. No fund-raiser this year, still have $25K in bank. Last year: contributed to Rock Creek Alliance against the mine. Projects: There are state and tribe projects in the Priest River drainage, but they never came to TU for help. Greg Mauser, retired biologist: proposal for Embrace-A-Stream grant to study cutthroats in Lake Pend Oreille, how much could it reproduce per cutthroat, $50K proposal, some of their $25K would probably also go along. Declining younger membership in TU is a concern. It's getting harder to find people to serve as officers. Pete thinks we may have to move the chapter to Coeur d'Alene. There are many complaints about this idea, but mostly by people who don't attend the meetings. Recruitment - Pete created a list of 18 people to target to bring into the club more actively. They emailed lots of info to them, but received no response. A worthless effort! The hottest prospects need to be called, the telephone tree still seems to be more effective, better than email. Other successes: General meetings - on 16th we did more advertising to increase attendance, have some names from that meeting, followed up on personal basis. Gained a couple of new board members, but still lost people and younger people aren't joining up. Still incredible work reported in this room. Mr. Albright: The project on Cutthroats in the lake - meeting with IDF&G on Nov. 8th to discuss. There is a reasonable population in Lake Pend Oreille. We got good results from sampling, shows doubling in size over the course of a year. Historically, there was a good cutthroat population. Now there are more warm water species in the lake. Mr. Allen: What are the abundance numbers / percentages? Mr. Renkert: Cutthroats didn't show in the state survey, were not emphasized, not significant numbers (less than 5%), some brown trout. Mr. Jones: Could you elaborate on your trout magazine program, please? Mr. Renkert: We have subscriptions mailed to schools, and extra copies from sports stores (with added labels "Courtesy of Panhandle Chapter of TU) given to schools libraries. TU national will help with the costs. It's been identified that you need to get kids "hooked" on fishing by age 11. TU national and NW Fly-Fisherman magazine will mail the subscriptions directly to schools at half cost. 1001 Mr. Renkert's report and discussion concluded. Mr. Allen gave a report on the Teton Valley chapter: Projects: The big one was in Hailey, with The Friends of The Teton River, working on the headwaters of Teton River to re-vegetate banks and do wetlands restoration. Private property had levies to minimize flooding, wanted it restored as a wetland, so they're removing the levee and re-vegetating. Flooded this year like everywhere else. 1997 and 2008 were last times it had any flooding. This October getting the entire barrier taken out so that next year, with good to moderate flooding conditions, it should flood completely. Trail Stream: Downstream from Victor flowing north: Victory ranches area: old ranch land, vegetation removed, channelized, new landowner, wants to restore, re-vegetate banks, willow poles planted with a stinger. The downside was the difficulty in turning out a lot of volunteers. A large portion of our members are guides and fly shop people, so they have time to put in, but The Friends of The Teton River did not have many volunteers show up. So we were only able to do less than half of what they were hoping to. The high school kids weren't able to do as much as we hoped. We're talking with The Friends of The Teton River about how to boost their volunteer hours. Another upcoming project: The Teton Regional Land Trust – we have an unofficial agreement: The Teton Land Trust cares for the main river, The Friends of the Teton River take care of the tributaries. We're ripping out old fencing on banks, using boats float down the river and collect the removed barbed wire and fencing and take it away. Then re-vegetate with willows and other plants. So this is the next big project. This was also a banner year for fund raising and membership recruitment. We had two main events: The Tin Cup Challenge, a race, non-profits have booths in Driggs, walking from booth to booth, you have to have real interaction at each booth. Raised 3X money as they have ever raised at an event. We have a really strong Board, all are involved in the fly fishing industry. During the Tin Cup Challenge, held in July, every board member volunteered. The other big event was a summer membership drive, raised 2x as much as in the past. It was a fun casting competition - Jeff Currier, a member of the U.S. Fly Fishing Team assisted with this event. The play was to cast a one handed rod in your strong and then your weak hand into goal posts resulting in a combined score. It was done as a match play, against one other person, then the winner would advance to next round. We charged $10 per person. Lots of guides and shop staff turned out - 64 competitors, prizes included trips and rods that were donated. We had a good mix of people in 20s and 30s as well as retirees and second homeowners (with money). 1010 Mr. Allen finished his formal remarks. Mr. Kuhrt gave a report on the Ted Trueblood Chapter: Passed out copies of the Ted Trueblood Fly Casting Tournament Guidebook to everyone. The Ted Trueblood chapter of Trout Unlimited is continuing to have an outstanding year. Fly Casting Tournament: The Ted Trueblood chapter successfully completed our first fly casting tournament. The model is set up as a skills course similar to the Orvis course in Bend, Oregon. Local fishing guides were a little reluctant to compete, fearful that a less than stellar performance might reflect badly on them. We had a total of 145 attendees and hit our financial target of netting $10,000. The money generated by this contest is being used to help fund the remaining portion of the Pierce Creek culvert replacement project. We are now in the process of planning and actively looking for sponsors for the coming year's Fly Casting Tournament scheduled for May 12th, 2012 in Eagle Island State Park. One thing we learned last year from many corporations that we approached, was their corporate charitable gift decisions are often made in the October through December time period. Hence, we are starting much earlier this year. We plan to continue to use this fundraising event to raise money for continued enhancement projects on The South Fork of the Boise River. Pierce Creek Project: The Pierce Creek Culvert Removal Project is expected to be completed During the month of November. By removing the culvert we will open up two miles of spawning habitat for wild trout on the South Fork of the Boise River. Boise River Projects: The Trueblood Chapter continued to supplement past plantings at several restoration projects along the Boise River. We continue to garner volunteers from schools, church groups, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops, as well The Sierra Club and the general public. Our Chapter continued to support Pam Elkovich with plantings at her mine waste cleanup projects in the Boise Basin watershed around Idaho City throughout the summer and fall. TU National Cleanup Day: Lacking a local river that was really in need of cleanup, we opted to plant trees along Grimes Creek as part of Pam Elkovich's ongoing efforts to cleanup and rehabilitate past mining areas. Trout Camp: The Trueblood Chapter completed its third annual youth trout camp. We had fifteen children (ages 10 – 13) and twelve volunteers. In addition to the fact that some of our volunteers are excellent anglers, we were also privileged to have a couple of volunteers that had been professional guides. We again used the format of two days in Boise and three days/ two nights out of town on the Middle Fork of The Boise River. We expect to have continued success and increased attendance with an improved marketing effort. Trout in the Classroom: This year we have a great group of volunteers and mentors who continue to make our program succeed. We are currently gearing up for this coming year. We currently have 48 tanks in classrooms. We continue to have requests from teachers wanting to join this program, but are limited by availability of materials and volunteers. Project Healing Waters: We just capped off another successful season of taking veterans fly-fishing. The final trip this year was to the South Fork of The Snake River. We had great assistance, hospitality, and guidance from South Fork Outfitters. Eight veterans attended and had a great time! Bio-Engineering Workshop: We assisted Pam Elkovich in a very successful workshop on stream restoration methods. The workshop was a three day endeavor with the first two days being a seminar format and the third day being hands-on restoration work on a river to implement some of the methods learned. Pam will elaborate in greater detail. From Vision to Reality: Enhancing the Lower Boise River: We were a sponsor and collaborator with Idaho Rivers United on a day-long workshop intended to bring together the various stakeholders and practitioners involved with the Boise River. The workshop was very well attended with approximately 100 attendees including various agencies, conservation groups, landowners, and recreationists. Silver Trout Award: The endeavors and hard work of our many volunteers and local TU staff was recognized this September at the TU national convention with our being awarded the Silver Trout Award. Stumbles: We have had some stumbles. Most recently the difficulty in trying secure a venue for a movie fund-raiser. The Egyptian Theatre was unresponsive to our attempts to book this event with them. After much frustration, we decided to pull the plug on our attempt to show the movie "The River Why" in Boise as a fund- raiser. We're looking for other possible movies to show as a fund-raiser this coming January or February. Chapter Meetings: Our September Membership meeting was unusually well attended. We usually have very poor attendance during daylight savings time. September's meeting had 37 attendees for a program on the finer details and secrets of successful dry fly fishing. The fly tying and program presentation was given by Geoff Brumley of "Dry Fly Innovations". He's a good speaker and very passionate about dry fly fishing. 1022 Mr. Kuhrt finished his formal remarks. Mr. Jones: A fishing movie used to be our fall-back fund-raiser, but "The River Why" just wasn't working out, so no fall fund-raiser this year. Mr. Albright: The Fly-Fishing Film Tour is coming around again, could be a good money- maker. Mr. Renkert: $575 is required to bring it, will get it back, they're showing it; they get 50% cut as sponsors; will also setup a membership table. Mr. Jones: We did it their first year, the second year they did it all themselves, then one of the fly shops sponsored it. One of the money problems for us was The Egyptian Theatre wanted $1,000. Mr. Allen: How much do they charge you guys? Mr. Albright: About $1500, multiple sponsors (3), each puts up about $550. Mr. Renkert: Lake Pend Oreille water-keepers is one of their partner sponsors. 1027 End of discussion Ms. Freeman gave a report on the Reed Gillespie Chapter: Periodic meetings, meet for beer, discussion. We currently have five TIC aquariums. Riparian restoration project on Boulder Creek, starting at Big Creek in The Little Salmon drainage. We partner with government and others, bring kids out planting, and will try taking them out fishing based on what we've heard here this morning. Mr. Jones: How can the other chapters help your chapter? Ms. Freeman: Our active members all work for public agencies, a lot of them don't want to be Board members because of a potential conflict of interest. We sent a newsletter last year, but received little interest. We have a small pool of people, most are active in many organizations as well. Ms. Apperson: Up to few years ago, we had more partnering going on, but most of those folks are burned-out or moved away. It's hard to get new members, then to get them to volunteer and to lead. Ms. Freeman: Grants fund our projects. Ms. Elkovich: Boots and Leslie have an interest in common to tap the summer homes people. You should get together and brainstorm on how to get them involved. Mr. Allen: Yes, let's exchange info. Ms. Freeman: We would appreciate the help. Mr. Northen: Sun Valley has more fund-raisers going all the time, every night of the year. When we need money, it's for a specific project. We've got 25-30 active members. And of course, the other organizations are all very worthwhile too. TU national has raised money from our second/summer homeowners. Ms. Northen: Have your meetings in warmer weather. One of the things the Hemingway Chapter does is to have a BBQ outing. Invite the kids, suggest a donation and/or potluck side dish to attract the summer home owners, just an idea. Mr. Northen: Also, people who participate in fish rescues may not come to meetings but they often do write checks for fund raising. Ms. Northen: Often new members join because of a fish rescue outing. Try to attract those summer homeowners. Ms. Elkovich: With The Tin Cup: how do you collect donations? Mr. Allen: The Community Foundation of The Teton Valley has a group of primary donors, they match funds for what each non-profit raises, tiered in a certain way. First, volunteer hours associated. A major way to do it - with email blasts, phone calls, go to CFTV to donate, these work. Also we take members and potential members on floats down the Teton River to show our restoration work and then remind them to make donations. Almost everything is done online. Each guide mails their clients lists as do the shops. Even shops in Jackson Hole do so they can use it for email blasts. We see an almost 50/50 match for TU and CFTV. Ms. Northen: In March we had a casting day when I was in California. FFF instructors, casting clinics for an hour or so, hot dogs, BBQ, solicit on a Saturday. Mr. Jones: Do you get much help from the McCall fly shop? Ms. Freeman: They're a little burned-out on fund-raising solicitations. Mr. Kuhrt: We discovered it's useful to get on the United Way list of charities. Now we get invitations to setup a booth/display and talk to folks at such things as the Federal Employee Combined Fund Charity fair. We get to talk to a lot of folks about our TU chapter and how all donations are used locally and we see a good response. We get about $800 over the course of a year, in the form of a quarterly check from United Way, for what amounts to about 2 hours of effort. Ms. Freeman: We have lots of federal employees with USFS here to solicit. Mr. Jones: Let us know how we can help. Ms. Freeman: Let's go drink beer and talk about it! 1041 End of Chapter Reports Mr. Jones: House keeping item: Please pay Pam Elkovich $10 for your lunch. She'll go get our lunches. 1042 BREAK 1105 Back from break Mr. Jones: Chad Chorney, please tell us about the Idaho Water Project. Mr. Chorney - Idaho Water Project (IWP) stuff: Hope to do: on the ground stream restoration, initiate, coordinate, Portneuf, wood, Bear River drainages: water transactions as well. We hope to follow along with Pam's work examples in S. Idaho area. Another part of this job is education and outreach, building local chapters, Hemingway, Magic Valley, SE Idaho Fly Fishers, inspire them; work closely; tell the TU story better, better outreach and education. IWP: Kim Trottter, she's in Driggs; myself; Jerry Meyers out of Salmon; Peter Anderson, staff counsel in Boise; Sue Christensen, (another person mentioned, name not understood), Jim Gregory, contractor works for TU on projects. Jerry Myers is working on the Lemhi watersheds and other locations. There's some work on Yankee Fork coming up. Simplot has agreed to fund a bunch of projects for restoration -- TU can still oppose them on other things but partner on this one. Peter is working on the Big Wood River below Magic Reservoir with the Land Trust, some plumbing issues. I started my first week with TU by floating the Middle Fork of the Salmon River on a staff retreat. It was a great treat, life changing! Jerry Meyers is former guide so he and his wife and son hosted. The fishing was good, great scenery, lots of fun! It was the end of September, the water was a bit high, but good. Next year, actually, starting now, the adopt-a-trout program. Wyoming was instrumental in that. They don't do TIC because WY F&G won't allow fish release in WY waters. So they now do an adopt-a-trout for doing telemetry studies. They work with WY F&G and others on migration patterns of spawning cutthroats and brook trout to be able to remove them. Some grants for funding along with some private donations support this and include getting kids out, a fly casting booth, some entomology, WY F&G electro fishes, a biologist does the surgery and implants the telemetry tag. The kids love it! It would be great to do this in the Hemingway Chapter's area. I will be talking with IDF&G about this. We'll need money and help. I'm getting started on EAS grant for SE Idaho Fly Fishers. Meeting with Bud Smalley on Monday. Good funding backing, 319 grant ranked second in the state, with voting in Dec. so good chance of getting it. Other funding available as well for Pebble Creek, a tributary of Portneuf River, with issues of overgrazing. Possible components are exclusionary fences, off-site watering, increased irrigation efficiency, $360K all total. IDF&G approached us to do some more work on Billingsly creek in Hagerman. We'll be meeting with them next week. Peter Anderson will be involved. Issues are hydro plant, aquaculture, irrigation, and water rights. I helped Pam and Matt on stream bank bioengineering workshops, in Boise and recently in Afton WY on Crow Creek. All went very well. 1118 End of Mr. Chorney's formal remarks. Ms. Apperson: Are you partnering with AFS or Universities for some of this work? Mr. Chorney: We're thinking about Idaho State. Ms. Apperson: BLM, USFS, AFS. . . all have resources. Mr. Chorney: The more partners the better, but want to be sure there's something usable. Thanks. Mr. Jones: Thanks Chad. 1119 Mr. Jones: Carmen, please report on NLC and TU national meeting. Also, others that attended the TU national meeting please make comments. Ms. Northen, Idaho TU Council NLC Representative, gave a report It was a great venue in Bend, OR, with a very good reception by the city. I attended different workshops and meetings. TU critical focus areas are: The Pebble Mine Yellowstone National Park native fish conservation (1-2% of YCT left, John Ellsworth will report). Protecting roadless areas (i.e., killing HR 1581 - the Assault on our Sporting Heritage Act, or ASH Act) Hydrofracking for gas and oil development Upper Colorado water withdrawal Clean Water Act State and federal natural resource funding It appears that gutting the EPA is on the national agenda for some politicians. Pebble mine: USACR issues 80K permits per year for projects. The TU strategy to stop Pebble: 404 - quoted from Corps mandate - farming and forest activities are exempt; EPA has issued permits that would veto USACE permits but only 13 since 1973; EPA conducting study of effect of Pebble dams, the largest would be 750 tall and 4.3 miles wide, earthen structure, in a seismic active region, final report on 404 is due Jan. 2013. During public comment period TU will be providing scientific data to stop this. Current accomplishments by TU are that three U.S. Senators have currently stated their support of the TU stance. Tiffany's, many guides, and others have put together a road show to tour major cities to build support to stop the pebble mine dams. A new NLC workgroup was formed to address the issue of increasing women's involvement in TU. Currently only 8% of TU members are women. Carmen wants each chapter to query the women in their chapter on how to make TU more attractive to them. Carmen's (Hemingway) chapter has asked shops to donate $10 gift certificates to be given to women who attend/join TU. Mr. Kuhrt: This new NLC workgroup already has some data that shows there is a misperception that TU is just a fishing club and that it's a good old boys club. Mr. Albright: Many years ago, a Trout magazine cover had a photo of a trout with a spinner in its mouth and they received a lot of very negative responses from readers. Mr. Renkert: For fund-raisers we're careful to get gifts women can use. They're auction items that always do well. Ms. Northen: That's a good point. Ed noted that at the auctions at the TU national meeting in Bend, there was very little that had aimed at women such as gift baskets with lotions, etc. Mr. Chorney: At the silent auctions I've seen, the women's stuff does the best. Mr. Renkert: In CT they were careful to have gifts/stuff for women. It was expected and stores were happy to donate. Ms. Northen: In CA they realized they needed some focus. . . women involved means kids involved. Mr. Ellsworth and Ms. Northen: Offered some observations on the Western Native Trout Workgroup: AZ native and apache trout habitat, except on the reservation, their habitat was wiped out by fires. NM lost three Rio Grande Cutthroat populations in recent fires. Ms. Northen: Other news in TU: In 2010, 99% of all chapters filled out finance reports! This is the first time the percentage has been this high! They reported a cumulative of over 664,017 hours of volunteer labor, which equates to over $3M in value. NLC voted on a declaration: Larry Harris, NLC chairman, in WVA, reported that there was a chapter involved in stocking hatchery trout in native trout streams. It was controversial, and NLC voted that no chapter shall be involved in an activity that stocks hatchery trout in streams with a native trout population. It's OK to in stock in ponds but not native trout streams. Mr. Albright: TU exceeded the budget this year. Membership grew last year. One other thing: Mike Dombeck, head of USFS under Clinic, and Walt Minnick from ID have now been added to the TU national board of trustees. 1130 Mr. Scott Stouder joined the meeting. Ms. Northen: There is new guidance on amending bylaws. Will discuss later. Mr. Jones: I went to the chapter building workshop. Statistics: surveys: 80% of people would prefer to send in a check and don't want to be bothered, 20% of members do the work. NLC says don't waste energy on 80%. Take their check and thank them, then concentrate on the 20%, trying to increase it incrementally, thereby cutting down the 80%. This seems to make a lot of sense. They also talked about a survey on membership meetings. Focus on diversity in the meetings to broaden the scope and appeal to the 80%. One segment wants to know about conservation, but most want fishing info. There are also some percentages that want to do projects and not go to meetings. A wide range of events and topics will broaden appeal to the 80%. Change up the routine of your chapter meetings. Offering ways or topics to improve fishing skills is always important. Other: TU is launching a new website. It's pretty cool and very user friendly. Mr. Kuhrt: The new website will be similar to a social media website (like Facebook). You setup your own kind of "profile page" that includes your favorite fishing areas (think "home waters", not giving up your secrets). There will be info like weather and other users comments or experiences relating to your favorite fishing areas that will show up when you login. This also provides a way to converse with other members with common interests giving people a reason to visit the website more frequently and also hooks in with TU national, EAS, etc. Mr. Jones: The beta version of the website is available now at: beta.troutunlimited.com. It will have links to local area fly shops and weather conditions. It's been set up by a bunch of really neat young guys and gals at TU. Mr. Kuhrt: I talked to some of the programmers and they're very excited about the site This "social media" approach might be a very good way to engage the younger generation like students at the university and high school level. Ms. Northen: Pebble mine will be using social media, too. Mr. Jones: Another meeting I attended was the one on salmon/steelhead. A big portion of the talk was about Bristol Bay and the road show going around. Boise is going to host a road show. Amy Haak will be spearheading that for Spring 2012. Ms. Northen: Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle are all on the schedule. There will also be coverage of the west, Midwest, and east. Mr. Jones: There was some dissatisfaction that the last 17 years salmon advocates have been winning lawsuits, but still getting pushed back, and seeing nothing getting done. The government is not being pressed to do what has been mandated. There is some institutional burnout happening in groups like TU since we win but nothing really changes. There will be more on this later this afternoon. Mr. Kuhrt: The youth initiative session stressed getting kids outdoors, get them loving it. Get involved with schools, high school teachers, professors to sponsor fishing/conservation clubs at the university level. There is interest, just not enough organization. There were some college students at our fly-casting tournament but no university connection. There are resources to be tapped. 1143 Discussion of NLC report ended. Mr. Jones began a discussion of the upcoming Western Regional Meeting: The Western Regional Meeting will be held in Sun Valley June 8th – 9th, 2012 and is expected to take a lot of Council time and energy. How to support it? Ms. Northen: Carmen and Ed attended a Western Regional Meeting in Park City, Utah and it was fabulous! There was a great agenda and good feedback. Her notes from the regional meeting were more extensive than her notes from the national because more of the meeting related to our area. Of particular value was hearing about how we can help each other. Idaho now has to deal with hydro- fracking issues, things like that. Our meeting will be a lot of work to plan. Mick McCorcle in TX is a great facilitator and will do this again in Sun Valley. I have the agenda from last spring to work from. She will email that to all of us. Our preliminary investigations in venues, etc. has produced the following info: Sun Valley lodge is $115 (per room, double occupancy) a little higher than past average, but still not too bad, considering meeting rooms, etc. Meals: breakfast for about $22, lunch for $12 delivered to satellite shop around the corner. The ability to have hosted fishing days, including the possibility of brown drakes on Silver Creek, as well as other good fishing opportunities and to meet everyone in a fun and relaxing environment. Mr. Ellsworth: Have we thought about having a hosted fishing trip and conservation tours? These were offered at the national meeting in Bend and were very successful. Ms. Northen: Maybe, but this is a regional meeting so it's a little different from a national meeting. We are definitely thinking about the hosted fishing days though. The Utah meeting had a BBQ at Bob Dibble's home with a rented a tent. It was kind of expensive, not sure how we'll do this. The BBQ is one of the most fun events. There was also a liar's contest that was a lot of fun! Mr. Albright: Talk with Charles Kahn and Mark Gates regarding spring creek fishing on his property. Ms. Northen: That's good idea. Mr. Renkert: Panhandle Chapter would contribute money for tent rental. Ms. Northen: We definitely want our chapters to attend. Mr. Ellsworth: Fishing trips would help with attendance! Ms. Northen: Agreed, we are working on ideas. Mr. Albright: Are there any other lodging accommodations available that would be less expensive? Ms. Northen: They're actually more expensive when planning for 50 participants. Mr. Chorney: Talk with John French. Mr. Ellsworth: Sun Valley can be rather expensive to travel to by air and inconvenient from other locations. Ms. Northen: They've talked about it. We think out of state members will still come. They'd likely fly into Boise and rent a car, possibly sharing a ride. Mr. Kuhrt: They could also ride the Sun Valley Express bus, one way or round trip between Boise and Sun Valley. Mr. Ellsworth: It would be good to provide information in the solicitation to attend about options for travel and how to arrange inexpensively. Mr. Jones: Maybe we should hold our next state council meeting like a breakout session at the regional meeting. This should make our attendance better. Ms. Northen: Everyone could prepare their chapter reports for the state council meeting and email to everyone before hand to save time. Everyone please think of agenda items for the regional meeting. We'll send out request for input. Mr. Jones: Consider and suggest any ways your chapter can help out with the regional meeting, donations, service in kind, whatever. Mr. Northen: Idaho was asked to host this regional meeting. We discussed having it in Boise, but all believe Sun Valley is a nicer venue. Mr. Ellsworth: Build time into the schedule for "outside time" for participants. Maybe even have outdoor sessions. Ms. Northen: Please think about agenda ideas and how to make it a great meeting. I'll do a draft menu for the BBQ and send it around. I talked with Doug Nation, MT TU, about Bayern beer, made in MT, and the possibility of bringing some beer, maybe in kegs. Mr. Jones: Do we want to hold our next state council spring meeting at same time as regional meeting? Mr. Albright: Why not have it as a morning session, the day before, two hours? Mr. Allen: It's most important to cover the chapter reports. A lot of the other stuff we cover at this meeting will be covered in the regional meeting. Ms. Northen: We could have our council meeting in the morning. We will consider ways to incorporate the two together. Discussion about cost for hosted fishing trip. $125 was mentioned. Mr. Allen: $125 is "a lot of money". Mr. Northen: Could the state council subsidize $25 of the costs for lodging? Ms. Northen: The rooms are doubles occupancy, but will consider how to cut costs. Mr. Jones: We want attendance. We don't want money to be a barrier. We'll need to work on that, maybe by helping chapters to participate by subsidizing costs. 1208 LUNCH! and more informal discussion, not recorded here. 1245 BACK FROM LUNCH Mr. Jones: Reminder: Embrace-A-Stream grants deadline is Nov. 14th to contact them, then the grant proposal submission deadline is Dec. 12th. Also - Chapter and council financial reports are due Nov. 15th. Mr. Woodard gave a report on Home Waters program: Palisades creek – We're creating new fish habitat. It was degraded. We are now building up the bank, creating pools, and j-hooks. Should be finished in next 8- 10 days. We recently completed a culvert survey on the Blackfoot River. The lower Blackfoot River has over 80 culverts that were surveyed. A TU intern assisted along with others. Shot grades with a transit and took physical dimensions of culverts, including cross sections above and below, and measure the bank full flows running through the culvert. There are some good ones and some bad ones. We're developing a hit list of bad ones. The USFS developed a protocol that TU used to do the analysis, and we will be submitting report to Simplot on this work (they're paying for it). Additionally, we're working with the Bear Lake Grazing Association. There is 8 acres on the upper headwaters of the Blackfoot River. There are a couple of bad diversions on Diamond Creek and Lane's Creek we plan to rebuild next fall. We'll put a fish screen in too and encourage them to fence it off. Big Spring Creek flows into Diamond Creek. During low water years fish use Big Spring Creek as their primary spawning area. We need to get it fenced off. (Shared some anecdotes about local landowners who are dissatisfied with F&G.) Mr. Renkert: How high can a trout jump to overcome a vertical barrier? For example, a suspended culvert? Mr. Woodard: Not much. Depends on how big, which species, and if there are resting areas within culvert (sediment in bottom is good, rocks they can get behind in the culvert, etc.). Whitefish can't jump, very limited. ;-P Mr. Kuhrt: I've heard one of the main problems is that culverts typically have a constant laminar flow. Mr. Stouder: Velocity in the culvert is a problem. There is no place for water to expand when stream flows increase. Mr. Woodard: These are big culverts. Up to 72" diameter. Mr. Albright: At Sandpoint we used ladders made from angle iron, with break points. Mr. Woodard: There's a 24" culvert in one location, then downstream is a 48" culvert. So there's a lot of head pressure on it and the fish can't negotiate it. This also causes the stream to backup, spreading water onto the rangeland, which owner/rancher likes. There are a lot of "No Trespass" signs and painted fence posts down there. Phone calls not returned. Our only success was during hunting season when the landowners would be out and around to make sure people weren't trespassing. So that's when Matt and colleagues contacted landowners (more anecdotes). Ms. Elkovich: Are there opportunities for training, perhaps with a culvert survey workshop? Mr. Woodard: We did one online about a year ago. We've replaced a lot of culverts. TU national is partnering with Orvis to replace culverts. There's $90K to kick-start the program. It's important to be in touch with congressmen regarding the next budget cycle and proposals to cut conservation funding, which is very small percent of budget. The super-committee in congress now will be reviewing and making some of these decisions. TU is now sending conservation success stories to them such as solar powered pivots, etc. We need them to be aware of what's going on. To better understand what they're wanting to cut. Mr. Jones: Moyers at national meeting said same thing. 1308 End of discussion Mr. McReynolds gave a report Sportman's Conservation Project in Idaho (the following is excerpted directly from his powerpoint presentation) Formerly the PLI Fishing and Hunting specific Protect, protect, protect! Place-based protection campaigns Designation Planning (TMP, RMP, Oil and Gas, Renewables) Legislative watch, State and Federal Explained the "Sportsmen Ride Right" program: "SRR is a coalition of sportsmen and women who use motorized vehicles to access our public lands. ... we recognize the need to take responsibility for ourselves and to ensure that our outdoor traditions can be passed on from one generation to the next. This means doing things right and making sure that education, law enforcement, and responsibility are all incorporated into our off-road pastime." SRR Pledge for Wildlife: five "... principles to champion responsible OHV use, and, more importantly, secure a strong sporting heritage for future generations." Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011: S.1087 and HR 1581 Releases roadless areas back to general management. Specifically references 2001 maps, predating the Idaho plan. Current delegation positions, Labrador-yes, Crapo-no, Simpson-no, Risch-no Would also release all WSAs with NR for W designation Likely outcome and why it's important: Idaho state OHV legislation: IDFG motorized vehicle rule in jeopardy Less than ideal Precedent setting State parks For the long term we need some funding to go to conservation and restoration work. Federal Renewables legislation pending: Bill would set up a pilot program, conduct a study, and make recommendations for how BLM should carry out the leasing process. Leasing fees would break down as: 25% to the State of Idaho 25% to the local County 15% to BLM for management 35% to a conservation fund (of great interest to TU) END McReynolds presentation Mr. Jones: Scott Stouder do you have anything to add? Mr. Stouder commented: Gave a brief history of the roadless area designations in Idaho according to the roadless rule. Place-based campaigns. His work is mostly in the Clearwater basin, with the Clearwater Basin Collaborative (organization). It has supported by Sen. Crapo with other Idaho congressmen either supportive or are interested (Labrador is learning about natural resources). Roadless areas in the Clearwater basin: 1.2 million acres of contiguous roadless area, which is the largest in lower 48 states. The Collaborative was formed as an antidote to conflict – It has 24 member organizations, including both counties and 2 timber companies. The TU perspective: Use state roadless area rules as a platform to build statutory protection through the Wild and Scenic Rivers, Wilderness Designation, and Roadless areas (secretary's note: details in the preceding section may not be totally accurate) Last 3.5 years: 4 subcategories landscape health recreation land __________ _____________(secretary's note: missed numbers 3 and 4) They've made a lot of progress: $20M federal landscape restoration agreement last year. The Clearwater basin has more anadromous fish than anywhere else, but dams, limit the amount of fish in the habitat. Their goal is to protect the fish. Currently the Dworshak dam stops fish migration. The Wilderness designation is the impediment. People in the region have a strong attitude against wilderness. However, the Wilderness Society is in their Collaborative and starting to make progress but there are still challenges. 400K of the 1.2 million acres is proposed/eligible for wilderness designation. We hope to get half of that designated. Wild and Scenic rivers designations are a similar situation. Opponents to Wilderness designation like the Wild and Scenic designation because it's simply not a Wilderness designation. We're trying to emulate Utah in bringing regional economics to the table. In December we will start the legislative agenda work. Personally, it's been rewarding and fun work. Other work has been done with Pam in the Boise River watershed. He served for 7 years on the SW Regional Advisory Commission for the USFS. We got hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace culverts in SW Idaho including the Ted Trueblood chapter work with Pam Elkovich. He serves on the Idaho Roadless Area Review Commission, which will meet 2- 3x per year. 1335 Mr. Stouder's formal remarks ended. Mr. Ellsworth gave a report on the Yellowstone National Park Native Fish Conservation Plan: Powerpoint presentation with his FIRST HANDOUT (reproduced here as text, below): Brief statement of the issue— Quoting the Executive Summary of the Yellowstone National Park Native Fish Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment, 12/16/10 (italics and bold added): "The reason for taking action now is that, despite ongoing conservation efforts, native fish species continue to decline and could be lost from Yellowstone waters. The plan reflects the need to increase efforts to conserve native fish in the Yellowstone Lake ecosystem and in rivers, streams, and lakes elsewhere in the park." Development of the plan included scientific review of current conservation efforts, projected changes in native fish status given known threats, a review of relevant emerging science and technology, and public and stakeholder input received during the public scoping process (March 29–April 30, 2010). The plan that emerged identified the following goals: · Reduction in the long-term extinction risk for fluvial Arctic Grayling (GRY), Westslope Cutthroat Trout (WCT), and Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (YCT); · Restoration and maintenance of the important ecological role of native fishes; and · Creation of sustainable native fish angling and viewing opportunities for the public. The plan proposes to achieve these goals by accomplishing the following measurable objectives within the Yellowstone Lake ecosystem: 1. Increase large-scale suppression of Lake Trout (LKT) to reduce the population by 25% each year (annual fishing mortality rate of 0.56). 2. Maintain surface water access for spawning Cutthroat Trout in at least 45 (75%) of the 59 known, historical spawning tributaries. 3. Recover YCT abundance to the average observed during the five years following LKT discovery (1995–1999; average of 12,800 spawning YCT at Clear Creek). And in other park streams, rivers, and lakes: 4. Preserve and/or restore genetically unaltered YCT to maintain their current spatial extent in streams (3,300 km, which is 75% of the 4,400 km that historically contained YCT). 5. Restore genetically unaltered WCT until they occupy at least 200 km (20% of 1,000-km historical WCT distribution). 6. Restore fluvial GRY until they occupy at least 200 km (20% of 1,000-km historical GRY distribution). The preferred alternative would conserve Yellowstone Lake YCT by increased netting of LKT (the carcasses to be returned to the lake) by private sector contract netters, and it would conserve GRY, WCT, and YCT elsewhere in the park by using approved piscicides to remove non-native fish and restocking native species from genetically unaltered brood sources in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. TU Idaho, Wyoming, Montana effort is part of the TU National Leadership Council (NLC) Western Native Trout Workgroup – "This NLC Workgroup focuses on native trout restoration across the west, assisted by the Conservation Success Index (CSI), and as the CSI is completed to cover more native and some wild trout species, will work with chapters and councils to learn how to use the CSI to support various conservation efforts". Purpose of the coalition of 3 state TU councils, NPS, others – Quoting from the July 1, 2011 DRAFT MOU (currently under review by NPS): "The purpose of the agreement is to enhance the cooperative relationship among the participants to ensure that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is protected, maintained and managed to achieve the goals established for the Park. Among those goals is conservation and protection of ecosystems that ensure native coldwater fisheries will persist for the enjoyment of present and future generations. The cooperative activities will include biological inventory and monitoring, research, public education and outreach, habitat management, fishery management and pooling and leveraging of resources." What we're DOING RIGHT NOW – ID, MT, WY representatives (John Ellsworth, Bruce Farling, Dave Sweet & Scott Christy) and TU national scientist Jack Williams are meeting on a regular basis. We are working with conservation partners, including TU National, NPCA, GYC, and YNP, to put in place a national fund-raising campaign to raise the $85,000 - $180,000 needed by April 1, 2012. We are working cooperatively under the "1TU" concept to assist Yellowstone National Park managers in achieving the goals of the Native Fish Conservation Plan. What we NEED RIGHT NOW - The Idaho TU Council is asked to make a financial contribution today to put "skin in the game" with our colleagues in WY and MT who share Yellowstone National Park lands with us; AND to establish a fund-raising campaign among the various Idaho chapters as we reach out to Idaho TU members, corporate and other donors, and the general public to achieve our common goal of conserving native fish in Yellowstone National Park. End of First Handout. Discussion followed, including questions about how specifically to get involved? Mr. Ellsworth gave a follow-up presentation on a possible approach to fund- raising in Idaho, with a SECOND HANDOUT (reproduced here as text, below): Outline of an Idaho TU Fund-raising Campaign to support Native Fish Conservation in Yellowstone National Park (2 pages) Campaign duration: November 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012 Prepared by: John Ellsworth, Ted Trueblood Chapter BOD member, email@example.com; 435-757-7575 I. THE IMMEDIATE FUND-RAISING NEED is for purchasing more hydro-acoustic tags and receivers to facilitate NPS tracking of the lake trout as they spawn in Yellowstone Lake. The total cost is estimated between $85,000 to $180,000. According to Dave Sweet (WY TU): USGS put in $30,000 initial seed money in 2007; East Yellowstone Chapter TU has contributed $7,000, $27,000, and $8,000 (total $42,000) and a lot of member time; MT TU, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and National Parks and Conservation Association has contributed $10,000 total. It is proposed here that the Idaho Council immediately contribute $1,000 [note: original handout stated "$5,000", this was changed in the powerpoint presentation to "$1,000"] at their Fall meeting in McCall on October 29, to show good faith and a meaningful buy-in. II. THE SHORT-TERM FUND-RAISING NEED is to establish and proceed with an Idaho state-wide fund-raising campaign with the goal of raising additional funds by April 1, 2012. The goal would be 1/3 of the $85,000 minimum total (see above), or $28,334 (more if possible). In order to accomplish the fund-raising campaign, the following five actions are proposed. It is assumed expenses would be covered by the funds raised during Action 3 (below), however the Idaho Council would need to commit now to cover any outstanding expenses. Ball-park total estimate of the expenses associated with these five actions is $7,050. Action 1: Establish a website presence on all ID TU chapters' websites, or link to TU national (if they will post a website page) or to WY and/or MT chapters' websites -- Kuhrt or other computer expert donate time plus expenses? staff in TU national office in Boise assist? some direct expenses -- total estimate: $200 Action 2: Develop a presentation "road show" and "tackle box" of ideas, options, and ways people can get involved and donate (money, time, etc.) -- Ellsworth's time donated, plus any direct expenses; the powerpoint developed for the ID TU meeting on October 29, 2011 will be the basis for the presentation; total estimate: $100 Action 3: Designate an Ambassador to tour the state and give presentations IN ORDER TO SOLICIT DONATIONS FOR YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL FISH CONSERVATION. These fund-raising presentations would be given to TU chapters, schools, other conservation organizations, rotary clubs, libraries, any number of other organizations, anybody who will listen, total of 7 trips around the state, approximately 21 days total, in November through March -- Ellsworth's time donated, plus direct expenses, per diem, lodging (Motel 6), travel (car rental, mileage, gasoline), hall rentals (minimal), equipment rentals (minimal), phone charges while setting up meetings, etc.; $250 per day, total estimate $5,250; Potential venues for the 7 trips might include (combine several into each trip): 1. Boise, Eagle, Caldwell/Meridian/Nampa, Parma, Payette, Weiser; 2. Mountain Home, Twin Falls, Jerome, Burley; 3. Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Blackfoot, Island Park; 4. Montpelier, Preston, Soda Springs; 5. Driggs, St. Anthony, Victor; 6. Salmon, Stanley, Ketchum/Sun Valley, Mackay, Challis; 7. McCall, New Meadows, Lewiston, Orofino, Moscow, Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Sand Point, Riggins. Each ID TU Chapter would assist with the logistics of making contacts and arrangements for speaking engagements in cities and towns within their regions of the state, relieving the Ambassador of having to spend inordinate amounts of time making "cold calls". Action 4: Funding for Ellsworth to attend no more than 3 face-to-face meetings with representatives from MT and WY TU and partner conservation organizations, most likely in Cody or Bozeman, 6 days estimated -- Ellsworth's time donated, plus direct expenses, per diem, travel, phone -- $250 per day, total estimate $1500. Action 5: May need funding for Ellsworth travel to meetings outside of the region (TU National office in D.C.?) -- this would require additional funding allocation NOT included in the $7,050 mentioned above; total estimate to be determined. III. THE LONG-TERM FUND-RAISING NEED exists, however addressing our short- term need is where we need to focus at this time. End of Second Handout Comments and discussion followed on Mr. Ellsworth's presentation: Mr. Albright moved for ID TU Council to commit to $1,000 now for the telemetry study, and for each person to go back to their chapter to request more funds with a target of $500 per chapter, with a goal of $5,000 total. Mr. Renkert seconded, vote was unanimous approval. It was decided to have further discussion on our Nov. 17th conference call. Mr. Jones will send out the information for that call. Ms. Northen: I suggest we produce a video to present the issue, to go along with the Ellsworth road show presentation. Mr. Ellsworth: It's a great idea and we've discussed it. There's just not enough time right now, but that's a great idea for the long-term fund-raising campaign. 1430 BREAK 1445 RETURN FROM BREAK Ms. Elkovich gave a report on the Streambank Soil Erosion Bio- Engineering Workshop held in Boise Sept. 27-29, 2011; (much of the following is excerpted directly from her powerpoint presentation): We had a very successful workshop. We worked with USACE to secure a free venue. ITD's Greg Vitley helped a lot. Attendees: 5 Corp. of Engineers Regulators (hosted our classroom days) 19 Idaho Transportation Department Employees 3 DEQ staff 2 EPA staff 4 Idaho Fish and Game staff 1 Fish and Wildlife Service person from Nevada 1 Private Landowner (Grandson from Grimes) 13 Trout Unlimited representatives Total of 53 Participants 2 Days of classroom sessions were very informative and had good materials to review. 1 day in the field was hard work but everyone learned a lot. Workshop costs: Partially funded by a TU Embrace-a-Stream (EAS) grant. Tuition was charged to all participants except TU members. Funding and tuition covered workshop costs with small surplus. EAS grant report is due. It must be completed and submitted before we can successfully apply for another grant. Deadlines for new EAS grants are coming up very soon. Mores creek project: We have now had over 2,000 participants! Included TIC release this year with student planting and funding for buses for Title I school students. Interns are useful especially for taking pictures of the sky! But also for handling GPS recordings. Projects in 2012: Anchors A-weigh! Pam goes to sea! Then returns to Boise sometime next fall? 1445 end Ms. Elkovich's formal remarks Mr. Jones asked Mr. Ellsworth to give a brief demonstration of traditional Japanese fly-fishing known as "Tenkara": Mr. Ellsworth gave a brief overview of the Tenkara tradition of Japanese fly- fishing, showed a brief TenkaraUSA video, demonstrated his collection of tenkara rods, explained the basic concepts, and invited all to try casting the rods after today's meeting ends. 1517 State Council Elections: Mr. Jones: We need to conduct State Council elections for: Secretary, Vice-Chair, Chair. Nominations are now open. Jones is Vice-Chair right now but has been serving as Acting Chair due to Chair Piotrowski's busy work schedule. Without objections, Chris Jones is nominated and voted in by unanimous vote to become the new Chair of the TU Idaho State Council; Jones will be resigning as President of Ted Trueblood chapter in January. Mr. Jones: Nominations for Vice-Chair are now open. Please note the Vice-Chair doesn't have to be in attendance today to be nominated and elected! Mr. Albright nominates John Ellsworth. Nomination is seconded by Mr. Renkert. Discussion: Ms. Northen states that "in one year we'll need an NLC rep and Ellsworth would be good for that;" Mr. Northen notes that if Ellsworth wants to be considered for NLC representative in a year, he could, because the Vice-Chair position is not like a "President-Elect" where that person automatically becomes Chair. Discussion followed. Mr. Renkert moved to close nominations. Vote: Unanimous for John Ellsworth as Vice-Chair, therefore he is elected. Mr. Jones: Nominations for Secretary are now open. Mr. Woodard nominated Chris Hunt. Scott Stouder seconded. Vote was unanimously in favor, pending Chris Hunt's acceptance. Elections closed. New Business: Mr. Jones began discussion of by-laws, rules: Ted Trueblood chapter has not passed revised by-laws yet. They are scheduled for a vote at the next membership meeting. Ms. Northen sent an email around stating that TU national has instructed all councils and chapters to revise their by-laws, from Beverly Lane at national. She read from the TU national mandate. Information can be found on the TU national website, Tackle Box, Business Practice. Ms. Northen will send council by-laws around again, vote at the next meeting or perhaps the Nov. 17th conference call. Conference Call: A conference call is scheduled for Nov. 17th, Thursday, at 7:00 pm (MDST). The phone number will be sent out via email. Mr. Jones: Any other new business? Mr. Chorney: Next fall meeting? Mr. Jones: This can be discussed at a later time. Adjournment: Mr. Albright: Moves to adjourn meeting, seconded by several, vote unanimous in favor. Meeting adjourned at 1530. 1530-1550 Mr. Ellsworth conducted hands-on demonstrations with Tenkara fly-fishing rods in the adjacent parking lot; great fun enjoyed by five Council members. Idaho Trout Unlimited Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Report October 1, 2010 – March 11, 2011 Idaho TU has two accounts as shown in the table. Balances 10/1/10 Income Expenses Balance 9/30/11 Net change Mtn West $27,161.95 $22,348.56 $(20,489.15) $29,021.36 $1,859.41 Endowment $18,086.28 $1,702.94 $(275.70) $19,513.52 $1,427.24 TOTAL $45,248.23 $24,051.50 $(20,764.85) $48,534.88 $3,286.65 We combined the checking & savings from Syringa Bank and the DA Davidson investment account into a single account at Mountain West Bank. The Endowment is at Idaho Community Foundation and is restricted to the ITU Graduate Scholarship. Financial activity during the first five months of FY 2011 was limited, with the largest income $4,069.50 in rebate funds from TU national. Early expenditures included $750 for travel to the 2010 TU national meeting and $200 for ISCAC for lobbying the Idaho Legislature. During the second half of the fiscal year nearly $18,000 of income came in for the bioengineering workshop. In addition to the $2,500 EAS grant the rest of the funds were raised by the efforts of Pam Elkovich, when she single-handedly transformed the training into a much larger and tuition-financed workshop for agency professionals. After all expenses there is approximately $1,800 in remaining funds. Interest and investment earnings are bad for the bank account (though relatively better at Mountain West) but good for the Idaho Community Foundation scholarship endowment.1 The first quarter FY2011 percent earnings on the ICF scholarship pretty much restores the huge loss in 2008. ICF made $848 available for a scholarship, which was awarded in June (income and expenses 3/31-9/30 2011 not yet available. A proposed budget for FY 2012 is on the next page. 1 The ITU Scholarship Endowment Account was established with the Idaho Community Foundation in 1998. Earnings from this account are dedicated towards scholarship support for a post-graduate student studying aquatic ecology at an institution of higher education in Idaho. The contributions to this account are irrevocable. Idaho Trout Unlimited 2011 and 2012 Operating Budget General Funds (excludes ICF Endowment) Oct 29, 2010 Budgeted Actual 2011 Proposed FY 2011 Income 2011 2012 Savings Account Interest & Investment Account Earnings $ 50 $ 75 $ 50 Donations $ 100 $ 300 100 TU Embrace a Stream $ 2,500 $ 2,500 0 Idaho TU Chapter contributions & reimbursements $ 1,000 0 0 TU Member Rebate $ 4,000 $ 4,069 $ 4,070 Other 0 $ 15,400 $ 100 TOTAL INCOME $ 9,661 $ 22,344 $ 4,320 Expenses Amount ITU Mini Grants $ (1,000) $ (0) $ (1,000) Member Rebates to Chapters2 $ (1,000) $ (912) $ (1,000) IDAHO TROUT Newsletter3 $ (600) $ (0) $ (600) Travel Expenses4 $ (2,500) $ (2,584) $ (1,500) Misc. ITU President Expenses $ (350) 0 $ (350) Conference Calls $ (50) 0 $ (50) Meeting Expenses ? $ (170) $ (200) Website hosting charges and website upgrade $ (150) 0 $ (150) ISCAC dues $ (200) $ (200) $ (200) Regional workshop June 2012 $ (1,500) Bioengineering workshop5 $ (2,700) $ (900) 0 Rock Creek lawsuit $ (250) $ (256) $ (250) Yellowstone Cutthroat Conservation $ (1,000) TOTAL EXPENDITURES $ (8,800) $ (5,022) $ (7,800) Proposed budget shows a couple of changes in revenue from 2011 to 2012. First, no EAS grant is planned and second no funds contributed by chapters to the State Council (chapters contributed to the newsletter when it was in printed form). The bioengineering workshop is not planned for 2012. 2 Assumes no rebate for Idaho Panhandle & Upper Snake Cutthroats. Trueblood needed its rebate in 2011 and may also in 2012. 3 This cost is for a post card informing people a newsletter is posted at idahotrout.org. We budgeted for it in FY2011 but did not spend the money on a postcard. 4 Projected expense for one person to TU National meeting in North Carolina. 5 Excludes costs covered by the tuition fee. These are costs paid for by the $2500 EAS grant and the $200 OSC grant Expenses include $1,500 for travel for one person to North Carolina for the national meeting, restart of the ITU mini grants, $1,000 to support Yellowstone Cutthroat and $1,500 for the Regional TU meeting expenses that may arise (this latter could help cover costs of ITU leaders attending the regional meeting in Sun Valley). Some expenses that were budgeted last year, but were not incurred (internet, post card for newsletter, President expenses, telephone costs) are included in 2012.
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Kelly Love Parker, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, announced Saturday she is adding her name to the list of candidates to fill the county commissioner seat currently held by Steve Stuart.
Stuart, the lone Democrat on the three-person county board, was named Ridgefield's next city manager Thursday. Stuart's last day as county commissioner will be April 11.
Stuart's departure will leave the appointment of a new commissioner in the hands of the two remaining county commissioners, Republicans Tom Mielke and David Madore. The Clark County Democratic Party will present the commissioners with a list of candidates from which to choose a replacement.
Democrats Temple Lentz, a political activist and Clark County freeholder, and Craig Pridemore, a former county commissioner and state senator, confirmed on Friday they were seeking the appointment. Love Parker tossed her name into the hat Saturday.
Love Parker decided to seek the appointment because she was concerned about who would step forward to fill the important minority role on the commission. The county needs someone willing to put his or her own politics aside for the benefit of the county; someone who will work to restore the county's credibility, Love Parker said.
While two strong candidates have come forward, the party needs to present the commissioners with three quality candidates, she said.
"I do support Craig Pridemore. I believe he is the best candidate," Love Parker said. "But because we have to have three candidates and the commissioners get to choose, we better give them three good candidates."
The Democratic central committee will interview candidates before paring them down and presenting a list to commissioners. Madore and Mielke will have 60 days after the vacancy to appoint a new commissioner. If they fail to act, the task will fall to Gov. Jay Inslee.
If selected for the position, Love Parker said the chamber board will either accept her resignation or grant her an unpaid leave of absence to fill the county role. Should she be appointed, Love Parker plans to run to retain the seat in November.
Love Parker, 50, has led the nonprofit chamber of commerce's small staff and more than 1,000 business members for the past 3 1/2 years. From 2005 to 2010, Parker worked as Rep. Brian Baird's district director, overseeing district projects and managing staff. Prior to that, Love Parker worked for 22 years as a TV news reporter, including 15 years at KGW in Portland.
This is Love Parker's first run for political office.
"I don't like politics, but it's not necessary to like politics to be a good leader," Love Parker said. "In fact, it's good to have a certain disdain for politics, and I do."

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