Board Meetings
Board of Directors of the Ted Trueblood Chapter meet the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. Check the Message Board for meeting location as our Board is on the move!
See also
Chapters of Trout Unlimited in Idaho
163 - Upper Snake River
Chapter President: Jim Mathias
PO Box 509014
Idaho Falls, ID 83401
Phone: 208-357-3764
www.snakerivercutthroats.com
431 - Idaho Panhandle
Chapter President: Peter Renkert
PO Box 1853
Priest River, ID 83856
Phone: 208-448-0520
Email: lazypupranch at sisna com
563 - Reed Gillespie/Central ID
P.O. Box 341
Donnelly, ID 83615
Phone: 208-634-8712
Email: bkrumm at cyberhighway net
584 - Hemingway
Chapter President: Ed & Carmen Northen
P.O. Box 3603
Hailey, ID 83333
Phone: 208-788-3618
Email: aspottedog at cox net
www.hemingwaytu.org
700 - Magic Valley Fly Fishers
Chapter President: Robert Chorney
PO Box 1037
Twin Falls, ID 83303
Phone:
Email: magicflyfishers at yahoo com
720 - Southeast Idaho
Chapter President: Darrell Brown
P. O. Box 293
Pocatello, ID 83204-0293
Phone: 208-237-9054
Email: dbrown1601 at cableone net
www.orgsites.com/id/seidahoflyfishers/
721 - Teton Valley
Chapter President: Kasey Collins
P.o. Box 630
Victor, ID 83455
Phone: 208-709-2976
Email: quincyliby at gmail com
Idaho Trout Unlimited
President: James Piotrowski
P.O. Box 1971
Boise, ID 83701
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Message from the President
President
 Chris Jones
December 2010
By Chris Jones
As I was transitioning from Vice President to President of the Ted Trueblood Chapter last year I was honored to attend TU’s 50th Anniversary National Meeting in Traverse City, Michigan.
Charles Gauvin gave a historical narrative of TU’s past 50 years of restoring, protecting, reconnecting, and sustaining our cold water fisheries. It was an impressive list of accomplishments that would make any TU member proud. TU has successfully finished the 2nd year of its 5-year strategic plan and will continue on its course.
Idaho was well represented at the awards luncheon. The Idaho State Council won the Bollinger award for the best newsletter, Idaho Trout. James Capurso, fisheries biologist for the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, won the Conservation Professional award. J. Robb Brady of the Idaho Falls Post Register was recognized with the TU Conservation Communications Award. Loren Albright, a national TU trustee from Sandpoint, and Matt Woodard from the National Staff in Idaho Falls, came in 2nd place in the Orvis nine hole fly casting contest.
While I was wading through all the hoopla of TU’s 50th anniversary, attendees kept telling me the National meeting in Boise in 2007 is still the best one they’ve attended.
Since that time we have been able to continue the good works of the chapter and leverage our national reputation garnered from the 2002 Gold Trout Award and hosting the 2007 national meeting.
The Ted Trueblood Chapter of Trout Unlimited was founded in 1991. Our chapter covers eight counties in southwest Idaho from Weiser to Glenns Ferry, and includes the large population center of Ada and Canyon counties. We have nearly 700 current members in the chapter.
We continue the expansion of our Trout in the Classroom Program to four more schools in southwest Idaho, now totaling 45 and reaching more than 1,500 students in southwest Idaho. We purchased and donated four chiller units for the aquariums used in the program and we supplied curriculum materials and organized professional biologists to support the teachers. This is something that we could not do without the critical support from Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The Edwin Perkins Foundation has also been a financial supporter of the program
Every year we conduct at elate five events for TU members and other interested people with bimonthly meetings, and attracted more than 300 people over the year. We were a major underwriter for the annual Idaho Environmental Forum Boise River Symposium, held in August 2010 on the Boise River. More than 150 people participated. In October 2010 we cosponsored an event with the Andrus Center for Public Policy with New York Time columnist Timothy Egan as a speaker. We used it to kick off our Ted Trueblood Writer Series. We hope to repeat that in the future.
In August 2009 and 2010 we held our Trout Camp and spent five days educating a dozen youth in stream ecology, fisheries science and fly fishing. Part of the camp was held on the Middle Fork Boise River at the Dutch Creek Guard Station
Also in August 2009 and 2010 we helped put on Kokanee Day at Idaho City and educated people about Kokanee and the Mores Creek watershed. More than 750 people attended.
Trout Unlimited is helping establish a local program for Project Healing Waters to take veterans fly fishing and teach them the sport. We did several events in 2009 and this year and interacted with dozens of veterans.
Our habitat projects include continuing major work on a one-mile long tributary side channel to the lower Boise River at Harris Ranch (Alta Harris Creek), work on riparian enhancement of the Boise River near the Bown Crossing and East Parkcenter Bridge site in east Boise, rebuilding a section of streambank on Heron Creek in southeast Boise and planted riparian plants along the rebuilt channel. We removed nine yards of silt from Heron Creek and then in September we organized 40 volunteers to place spawning gravel in the channel just upstream of its confluence with the Boise River.
We completed the first phase of major research on the South Fork Boise River, a study to determine whether the fishery is declining and to learn the genetic background of the fishery. The genetic information was presented to the community in November 2009. We are now working on a project to reconnect Pierce Creek to the South Fork Boise River to allow for more diversity in spawning habitat and to enhance the fishery.
All of these projects happen thanks to the dedication of our volunteer organization and with the assistance from the Trout Unlimited professional staff in Boise, and also many state and Federal agencies. Thank you all.
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