To protect, conserve, and restore Colorado's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds
Grasshopper Festival
First Annual Grasshopper Festival at Brush Creek Pavilion in Eagle
Saturday September 25, 2010
As your local grass roots level TU organization, Eagle Valley TU is excited to announce the First Annual Grasshopper Festival.
Dinner, activities, friends, kids games, fly fishing gear, swag, and good cheer will all be provided, plus great food by our sponsor the Dusty Boot.
Buy Your Dinner Tickets Now
Dinner/Entry tickets are $10 each - kids 12 and under eat and get in for free.
2010 Grasshopper Festival Sponsorship Opportunities
August 27th Time: 5pm-11pm
Join Colorado Trout Unlimited and Friends for our 2010 Annual End of Summer Bash Presented by Charlie's FlyBox. Come celebrate the end of summer at the D Note in Old Town Arvada with all your friends. Last year’s party was a blast; attended by several hundred of our most dedicated supporters. This year will be even better with live music by Big Universe and a chance to win prizes and trips for the angler and non-angler alike. All proceeds from this event benefit Colorado Trout Unlimited's river conservation programs.
And don’t forget to stop by Charlie’s FlyBox, this year’s event sponsor, to stock up and check out the latest gear! They’re located right next door to the D Note! TU members receive a 10% discount from 5pm-7pm.
Hope to see you there!
Sinjin Eberle
President, Colorado Trout Unlimited
Date: Friday, August 27th Time: 5pm-11pm
Cost: $10 per person. All proceeds benefit CTU's river conservation programs.
Click here to purchase tickets online.
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The Clean Energy, Community Investment, and Wildlife Conservation Act
Please visit our online action center to support legislation that would facilitate renewable energy development and provide funding to protect and restore fish and wildlife habitat.
WHY WE CARE
As interest grows in developing wind and solar energy on public lands, it is imperative to manage development in ways that avoid, minimize and mitigate impacts to fish and wildlife habitat. The Clean Energy, Community Investment, and Wildlife Conservation Act (H.R. 5735 and S. 3587) is a bipartisan bill that would set up a pilot leasing program for wind and solar energy development on public lands and establish royalties and other payments associated with the use of public lands for energy production. A substantial portion of the royalty revenue would be dedicated to the conservation of fish and wildlife resources and to enhancing public access. The bill will help to balance energy production needs with the protection of fish and wildlife on public lands.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
1) Visit our online action center today and contact your members of congress to encourage them to co-sponsor the Clean Energy, Community Investment, and Wildlife Conservation Act. Feel free to use the model letter you will find there as a basis for your personal letter or email.
2) Please visit www.tu.org/SCP to learn more about the Clean Energy, Community Investment, and Wildlife Conservation Act.
Sincerely,
Chris Wood, President and CEO of Trout Unlimited
Colorado Water Project
Many rivers and streams in Colorado are heavily depleted and lack the flows necessary to sustain healthy cold water fisheries. Since its inception in 1998, Trout Unlimited’s Colorado Water Project has worked to address this problem. The Water Project has defeated water diversion and storage projects that would diminish river flows, has helped to pass several pieces of legislation expanding the state in stream flow program, and has created dialogue among water providers regarding ways to develop water supplies without damaging Colorado’s rivers and fisheries. Trout Unlimited is the only group in Colorado dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring stream flows and rivers. Learn more here
Take Action Now to Save the Fraser River and Colorado River Headwaters
To ensure sustained flows and healthy habitat that support fish, wildlife, and local communities, please ask Denver Water and the US Army Corps of Engineers to require mitigation for the Moffat Firming Project. Read more about the proposed Moffat Project and how you can go on the record to help save the Fraser River and Upper Colorado River headwaters.
Also, don't forget to join the "Save the Colorado River--Don't Flatline the Fraser" Facebook Group!
In Colorado, water is a more precious commodity than almost any other natural resource. Since 1969, Colorado Trout Unlimited has been the state’s leading advocate in conserving, protecting and restoring Colorado’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. For more than 35 years, CTU has made significant contributions to Colorado’s environment, including battling the effects of disease on wild trout, defeating harmful large dam and diversion projects, passing important stream flow legislation, spearheading youth conservation education, protecting water quality, restoring native trout, improving drought-stricken rivers, establishing healthy fishing regulations and promoting water conservation. CTU has been Colorado's leading non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting the health of Colorado's rivers and lakes.
Statewide, CTU has over 10,000 members in more than 20 local chapters, in communities from Durango to Denver to Fort Collins. Our chapters conduct local conservation and education projects and act as advocates and conservators for their "home waters". The on-the-ground, grassroots efforts of our chapters and volunteers are what sets CTU apart from most other conservation groups.
CTU is the Colorado council of the national organization Trout Unlimited, which has more than 156,000 members nationwide. TU's national offices are based in the Washington, D.C. area. From grassroots habitat protection to high-level government lobbying, TU's efforts target the "Four Hs" of fisheries conservation: habitat, hydropower, harvest and hatcheries.
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