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STREAM Girls Resumes In-Person in the Northern Front Range

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STREAM Girls Resumes In-Person in the Northern Front Range

This fall, the STREAM Girls program resumed in-person events including a location in Fort Collins. On October 2, the Rocky Mountain Flycasters chapter hosted an event at the CSU Environmental Learning Center with the support of Colorado Trout Unlimited, She's Fly and fellow northeast chapter volunteers. Twelve Girl Scouts from Fort Collins to Highlands Ranch attended the daylong event designed to introduce middle-school age students to their local watersheds. A stream is where the scouts learn, but it is also an acronym based on STEM learning with the addition of recreation and arts.

November Conservation Report

November Conservation Report

While there are many in our midst with long resumes in conservation there are no doubt quite a few of you who, like me, are just delving into conservation with TU, thinking about how to get involved, or just thinking more deeply recently about it. As the conservation chair for a conservation focused organization, I find myself in an interesting position, considering I don’t have one of these long resumes. However, many scientists (myself among them) prefer to start with “I don’t know” which aids in eliminating ego, bias, and expectations as we study things, particularly as it pertains to an unexplored area. Recently, in this frame of mind, while listening to presentations from experienced conservationists, I started asking myself “what is conservation?”

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Fixing Shoulder Pain

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Fixing Shoulder Pain

If you can’t get to the water, you can’t fish it. It’s that simple. We’ve all spent time at the top of a canyon looking down at the river wishing, saying “If only I could get down there and fish that riffle, they’ve got to be stacked in there!” We all have those “if only” spots. In my opinion, there are three types of “if only” spots: 1) If only it wasn’t private property. 2) If only I had a boat. 3) If only I didn’t have a bad knee, ankle, shoulder, hip etc..

Mending the work/life balance

Mending the work/life balance

Summer was over in the blink of an eye. When I look back on these last few months I see a multitude of empty fly boxes, drawers stuffed with mostly demolished fly tying materials with hundreds of empty daiichi packs scattered throughout, bald car tires, neglected household chores, and a bank account that ain't even worth 50 bucks. But I look back on this summer and feel an incredible sense of accomplishment. I spent this summer as a full time fly fishing guide.

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