A Pacific Northwest Coastal Conservation Association Publication | Issue 12 | November/December 2009 | www.CCAPNW.org

CCA Questions Obama Administration’s Ocean Policy

Ted Venker legitimate effort to establish a true policy of “We are stunned that the Task Force did not CCA National conservation for the wise use of our natural recognize the role of recreational fishing in A recently issued report of the White House resources, it should not be pursued with such the proper management of ocean resources. Interagency Ocean Task Force has caused timelines and remarkable lack of inclusion.” Whether this was done intentionally or not, widespread concern among America’s recre- President Obama launched the effort to the end result is a document that has alarmed ational anglers. Released just weeks after develop a comprehensive, coordinated millions of recreational anglers,” said Brewer. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric strategy to manage the oceans through the “We were led to believe that the value and Administration (NOAA) promised to take a White House Council on Environmental role of recreational angling would be a “fresh look” at the federal agency’s relation- Quality, NOAA and numerous other priority for this Administration, as it should ship with recreational anglers, the Interim agencies. The Administration’s directive be for any Administration seeking to improve Report threatens to fast-track sweeping mandated an aggressive180-day timeline to the management of our oceans. Establishing reforms for the management of resources in develop a national ocean policy that includes an overarching national oceans policy must federal waters, but fails to recognize – or even an integrated, ecosystem-based frame- fully consider and balance the interests of all mention – the conservation, economic or work for marine spatial planning. Coastal who will be directly affected. For the Interim social contributions of recreational angling. Conservation Association has been active in Report to ignore recreational fishing is an alarming sign that must be addressed.” “Our members are very concerned about this process and has grown concerned that this entire process, from the timeline to the concepts and goals important to the recre- For more information on this issue, go to the overall tone and intent of this effort. This is ational sector have been overlooked – or Newsroom section of www.JoinCCA.org. a huge undertaking and the ramifications ignored. could impact 60 million anglers, and yet it comes with a 30-day public review and comment period and doesn’t even mention Announcing the New CCA Website us,” said Chester Brewer, chairman of CCA’s Announcing our new website! www. National Government Relations Committee. ccapnw.org Besides a great new look and “Placing such a high priority on ocean policy feel, the new site will feature better access is a worthy endeavor, but if this is to be a to information and many powerful tools. You won’t see some of these new system tools because they are under the surface, but they will make updating the site more IN THIS ISSUE efficient and timely, resulting in a much more informative site. Site hosting and Ocean Policy...... 1 maintenance is performed by Central Gary Loomis’ From the Gut...... 2 Point Systems using a managed hosting facility, AISO.net is a solar-powered Director’s Thank You...... 2 facility, one of a handful of 100% solar- powered facilities in the world. Benefits to Charitable Giving...... 3

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Issue 12 | November/December, 2009 www.CCAPNW.org | Page 1 PAC has to be referred to as the “Coastal Conservation PAC” It can never be referred to as the “CCA PAC”. It’s a separate entity, and if we refer to is as our PAC or the CCA PAC it could cause someone to challenge our 501c3 status.

CCA Regional News Coastal Conservation Oregon PAC extinction of long before the Columbia Gary Loomis’ From the Gut River was dammed. Unfortunately, no one As 2009 comes to an end, so does the oppor- listened in the 1800’s or the 1900’s, and now it tunity to cash in on a tax credit for donating Are We has fallen to our generation to take up the cause to the Coastal Conservation Oregon PAC. of the salmon. Will we rise to the challenge and As reported in the last Ripple Effect, the PAC Doomed do all that we can to fight for these fish that have offers a dollar for dollar tax credit of $50 for been driven to the tipping point of extinction? to Repeat Will you become more engaged in the process individuals or $100 for couples filing jointly. Ourselves, of fighting for these fish? To put it another way, these donations either go to the state of Oregon in the form of your CCA has already claimed victory by defeating 115 Years taxes, or to the PAC of your choice to support the gillnet in 13 states and banning this harvest Later? method. We’re going to be the 14th and 15th an issue you are interested in. The Coastal states to ban this non-selective harvest practice! Conservation Oregon PAC is the new voice of conservation in Oregon. See below for I read an article recently that sounded all But I gotta tell you, CCA is not some magical information on making a donation today. too familiar with the history of salmon in the wizard hiding behind a curtain pulling levers Northwest. The article appeared in the New in the Land of Oz! The people in each of these Republic, September 28, 2009. I’ll let you read a 13 states busted their behinds to get those nets banned! We need to band together and tell To donate to the Coastal Conservation small section of the article and think back to our PAC mail your check to: salmon history and let you find the similarities. everyone about our mission and not rest until we have achieved the success claimed already by Coastal Conservation Oregon PAC “... as the larger fish began to disappear, boats these 13 states. 89358 Cranberry Lane began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier- Bandon, OR 97411 -fish never before considered fit for human Membership in CCA is vital to saving these Please print clearly. This information is required by law. consumption. Many were renamed so that they fish. I cannot stress this point enough. A great conservationist once said, “walk softly and could be marketed: The suspicious slimehead Name: ______carry a big stick!”. Folks, you’re the “big stick” became the delicious orange roughy, while the Address: ______worrisome Patagonian toothfish became the for CCA that Theodore Roosevelt talked about! ______wholesome Chilean seabass. Others, like the Each membership adds more flame to the fire homely hoki, were cut up so they could be sold and we need a bigger fire. We’ve had some City: ______St: ______sight-unseen as fish sticks and filets in fast-food success in the past two years and that’s due to Zip:______Phone: ______restaurants and the frozen-food aisle.” the members that we have! But we need more E-mail:______members to achieve greater and more important Occupation: ______Back in the 1870’s and 80’s when the salmon victories. We need you, the average Joe and Jane packers perfected the canning process on the reading this article, to get new members. Get Employer:______Columbia River the ONLY fish they were inter- your neighbors, family members and friends to Employer Street Address:______ested in were the prized spring chinook and the join. It’s their resource too. It’s that simple. To ______“June Hogs” (also chinook). Because the quality achieve all that we intend more membership is City: ______St: ______of chinook is second to none, all required. other salmon were considered inferior. In 1883 Here’s the bottom. It’s not the dams or the lack (If this Contribution/Donation is for two, alone the canneries packed 630,000 cases (one above information is needed for both) case is 48 one-pound tins) totaling almost 43 of habitat that kill’s these returning fish! It’s Amount enclosed:______millions pounds of only chinook salmon! Soon NON-SELECTIVE HARVEST that kill wild and after the chinook run collapsed the canner- native fish before they get the chance to ! To make a contribution by credit card ies began packing coho and sockeye salmon. Hatcheries won’t save these fish. Gillnets will please call 877-255-8772 not save these fish. Eating a wild salmon and By the 1890’s only half of the canneries total Thank you! output were the chinook. The decline of the steelhead will NOT save these fish. More prized chinook caused the other salmon to be commercial harvest of these ESA listed fish will harvested to keep up with demand. Basically, not save these fish. Letting these wild and native they were harvesting the resource faster than salmon and steelhead return to their spawning the salmon could reproduce. grounds is the only way these fish can survive. We’re not anti-harvest but we are for selec- Thank You Eva! It’s amazing to me that we have seen the history tive harvest and 125 years of the gillnet killing of salmon unfold in the Northwest and we’re everything in its path is long enough. Eva created the original CCAPNW website, still making the same wrong choices . This as a volunteer, to give our rapidly growing next quote I’m going to give might as well been In a hundred years, are the historians going to quote me in The Ripple Effect saying that we membership a place to go on-line to join printed in the last issue of The Ripple Effect or CCA. She has put in hundreds of hours given at one of my road shows. “We must look talked about salmon extinction, like I quoted Marshall McDonald, Hubert Bancroft and over the past two years helping us with this the great commercial fisheries prosecuted in the website and technical issues in general. CCA lower river for an explanation of this decrease, Theodore Roosevelt? Or will they write that a PNW has grown to the point where we have which portends inevitable disaster to these great movement arose amongst the people that recently launched our own user-managed fisheries if the conditions which have brought fought the government and the fishing industry it about are permitted to continue”. This quote and actually saved the salmon? Will each of you website, and Eva has been very helpful in was from Marshall McDonald, who was the US please find one new member? this transition as well. She’s provided candid commissioner of fish and fisheries, in 1894! This Editor’s Note: The two quotes from McDonald advice on the services we need and always assessment of the chinook salmon was given and Bancroft and the data included in this made time for CCA’s needs despite the 115 years ago. What have we done in those 115 article came from, King of Fish- The 10,000-Year pressing needs of her “real job”. All of us in years? Run of Salmon by David R. Montgomery and the Pacific Northwest owe Eva a great deal of gratitude for the success of our organization Folks, we’re not the first to sound the alarm. published by Westview Press and for her critical role in getting us to where They were warning the authorities about the we are today!

Page 2 | www.CCAPNW.org PAC has to be referred to as the “Coastal Conservation Oregon PAC” It can never be referred to as the “CCA PAC”. It’s a separate entity, and if we refer to is as our PAC or the CCA PAC it could cause someone to challenge our 501c3 status.

Warm Glow from Charitable Giving Also Reduces Tax Burden

Americans have a charitable streak. In fact, In addition to tax benefits, donors often have estimates place the percentage of American additional reasons for choosing to give stock. These households making charitable donations each might include lessening a concentrated position in year at 70-80%. Research suggests that giving a particular stock or preserving available cash for is good for you, too. Donors experience a other needs. measurable kind of warm glow or “helpers’ Wealthy families looking to instill their family’s high” from giving to a good cause, studies values and create a legacy of giving for their show. children and grandchildren often choose to Even if feeling good is not a motive for establish their own private or family foundations. charitable giving, it sure is a plus to reap These foundations provide a vehicle or focus the tax benefits of giving. So it is worth within the family to work towards common social considering the benefits of giving in the goals and promote giving to future generations, most tax-efficient ways, including making permitting young and old to collaborate on these gifts of cash and appreciated securities or topics. establishing donor-advised funds and family The fourth quarter a good time to consider the best foundations. way to give in view of your plans and objectives. Gifts of appreciated securities are a popular You can plan ahead by putting these vehicles in way to benefit a favorite charity while place to facilitate year-end giving. When it comes sheltering the gains from taxes. By giving this to tax-wise giving - who knows? – it might feel way, the donor is allowing the charity to put better than you think. to work 100% of the market value of the long- Wells Fargo Advisors does not provide tax or legal term appreciated securities, thus avoiding advice. Please consult with your tax and /or legal paying tax on the “built-in” capital gain. advisor before taking any action that may have tax Let’s say you own an appreciated position of and/or legal consequences. GE, now worth $10,000, acquired for $2,000. This article was written by Wells Fargo Advisors and Sell the stock and you would be subject to provided courtesy of Andrew C. Anderson, Senior capital gains tax on the $8,000 realized gain Vice President of Anderson Wealth Management – a $1,200 tax bill. If you donate the stock Group. CCA Member. instead, you can deduct the full amount as a charitable gift. For an individual who itemizes One SW Columbia Street Suite 1950 Portland, Or 97258 deductions and whose marginal tax bracket 503-274-2777 is 33%, the savings of $3,333 in federal taxes [email protected] – added to the $1,200 in capital gains savings Investments in securities and insurance products are: NOT FDIC- – brings to $4,533 the tax savings for making INSURED/NOT BANK-GUARANTEED/MAY LOSE VALUE. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Member SIPC, is a registered broker-dealer and a your gift in stock. A cash gift would reduce separate non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. taxable income by $10,000, thus saving $3,333 in income tax.

The Ripple Effect Staff Get ready for CCA Night at ShoWare Center! MANAGING EDITOR Bryan Edwards Mark your calendars for February 6th for some great junior hockey action, when EDITORS the Thunderbirds meet the Portland Pat Hoglund • Angela Hult Winterhawks for one of their biggest games of the year. The Thunderbirds are recognizing ADVERTISING MANAGER CCA by offering special pricing and other perks for CCA members. This is a great opportunity Mike Perusse: [email protected] to introduce your friend to CCA in a fun envi- ronment. We are still working out the details, DESIGN AND LAYOUT but event will include information about CCA Jesse Sampson from CCA leaders and special prizes for CCA www.SmallStreamDesign.com members and those that become members at the event. Additionally, this will be great exposure for CCA to the 6,100 hockey fans expected at Comments or questions? this event that is expected to sell out. Watch Please contact: [email protected] the website for updates and information on purchasing tickets.

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President’s Message New Marketing Committee Moves to Action

John Stec action: Communications, both internal and report. That is where you come in. You need Oregon CCA President external, membership support, and Public to present me with a new problem to worry image and awareness. The report was candid about. Each time I prepare an article for the Ripple in identifying present problems and provided Effect, I find myself struggling to answer the recommendations and solutions to the state I need so many of you to volunteer to work question, “What do the readers want to hear board, which voted unanimously to accept the on one of these sub committees that I am from me?” My job as your president is to findings of the committee and the report. overwhelmed with choice! You don’t have worry about the day-to-day problems that to travel and attend meetings to contribute any organization faces. Sometimes I feel like There is an expression that I have a special to the work because 95% of our meetings a fire fighter, scrambling around to put out fondness for, and here it is: Planning without are held via teleconference. You don’t have brush fires. Other days leave me feeling like action is futile; action without planning is to be a professional writer or marketer. You a plumber with a house full of leaky pipes. fatal. do need a strong sense of urgency over how Other roles that come to mind are that of best to keep our members informed. You clown, chaplain, sheriff, and cheerleader. I This committee is now moving into the action do have to believe that we need identify and try very hard to keep “village idiot” out of my phase. Three subcommittees are accepting implement ways to get our message out to the resume. I’ll leave it to you to decide how that’s the assignment of tackling challenges ranging general public, because not every voter owns working out for me. Most of the time, the from development and distribution of point- a fishing rod. stuff that I work on would bore you to tears. of-sale promotional literature and content But there is one organizational development development for our website and newslet- We are at an exciting stage in our brief orga- that I think you will find to be interesting. ter. They will be working on helping local nizational history. I truly believe that in the I am speaking of the report of our newly chapters with their own website pages. They not-so-distant future we will all be able to say formed Marketing Committee. will further develop ideas for an outreach “I was part of the winning team in the battle campaign to educate and mobilize Oregon to save the fish.” However, without a strong, This committee, formed at the request of voters who are not sport fishers. But here’s well thought out marketing plan, the fight will Chair Dave Schamp, presented a formal the rub. take longer than any of us would like. Please report the CCA Oregon State Board of email me at [email protected] to tell me Directors at the September board meeting. The nine of the ten Marketing Committee that you are ready to volunteer. Alternatively, Basically, the paper developed from a series members are volunteers, meaning that each leave me a message at our PNW Regional of working sessions involving ten CCA subcommittee will have only three contribut- Headquarters at 877-255-8772. You will be Oregon Members, including AD Brett ing voices. That is simply not enough talent certain to get an enthusiastic reply! Larson. It identifies five priority items for to address the array of issues identified in the

Government Relations Update Depend on Each Other for GRC Success

Within the GRC we have many folks we identify those members who are willing dent on each other to achieve the greatest working on various levels to ensure that our and qualified to serve, currently serve, or success possible. It is critical that when you message and more importantly the good of know someone who currently serves and may have questions or concerns you bring them the resource is considered in all manage- be sympathetic to our cause, on the various to your local chapter GRC rep or reps so the ment decisions that affect our fish and their management bodies that have become the GRC as a committee can effectively address future viability. At commission meetings, on norm of fisheries management not only in the the concerns or answer your questions. As compact calls, in the North of Falcon process, Pacific Northwest but around the country. listed above, if serving on a management on the Columbia River Recreational Advisory From local watershed councils to positions council interests you, you currently serve Group, at all meetings involved with marine on federal level management councils it is on a council, or know someone who would reserves, with other fisheries groups, at one of the ways we can ensure sustainable be a good choice, bringing that to our atten- important ODFW meetings across the state management practices and the good of the tion would be most helpful. In addition any and in countless meetings with legislators resource are at least considered when deci- points of influence within the management and policy makers we are represented by one sions are made. decision process you may have or be aware of or more volunteers and more often than not can only be utilized if the GRC is made aware paid staff to ensure that the unprecedented It is also important for us to identify, from of them. representation we have achieved in our short within our local chapters, points of influence existence continues to grow and bear fruit. with political decision makers so that we Our greatest success will be achieved when bring our message to the political process. we utilize the committee system to maximize The CCA model depends on strong member- By identifying members who may know or our efforts, educate ourselves about the ship involvement to enable the organization have access to these individuals we are able management process, and address our to use the influence and talent of our grass- to relay our message much more effectively questions and concerns while continuing to roots membership to effectively ensure that and in a more personal manner. enhance our ability to affect the future and future management practices adequately present management of the resource we all protect the resource that provides the fisher- As you can see we as members and the GRC strongly care about. ies we all enjoy. To that end it is critical that as a committee are completely interdepen-

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President’s Message Kicking Membership and Recruitment into High Gear

Matt Olson of our own Pacific Northwest fisheries, we are and I have charged the Washington board Washington CCA President seeing an unprecedented amount of change with aggressively growing our membership. Fall is officially here and CCA’s banquet at a national level, from marine reserves to To help drive that effort I am pleased to season has come to a close. I want to start by catch shares to the Obama administration’s announce that Joseph Madrano has been thanking all of you who attended a banquet, proposed ocean policy. These policies, if appointed to the Washington board as bid during the auctions, donated time, money enacted, could have a profound impact on membership chair. Joseph’s energy and or items or brought family and friends to the recreational anglers and marine conservation dedication to our marine fisheries will be a event. In spite of a challenging economy, your on a local, regional and national scale. tremendous asset to our efforts, and I hope efforts helped us to raise important funds for For that very reason we need a strong you will join me in supporting the important our advocacy and conservation efforts, and organization at all levels, and now more than work that he will be doing. To that end, I those dollars have helped us to advance the ever we need to speak with one voice. Being am personally asking each CCA member to ball in many important ways. part of a large, national group, one with more recruit at least one new member between now and the end of the year. If every member If you did not have the chance to attend than 25 years of success, will serve us well over the next few months as we engage in fisheries signs up one new person, we will double our a banquet, which represents the most size. important way that we raise funds, please issues on multiple fronts. But we cannot lean consider making a year-end donation or too heavily on the expertise in Houston or Remember that your CCA membership card giving the gift of a CCA membership during other parts of the country; we need a strong provides you with an important voice in the the holiday season. Donations are tax Pacific Northwest organization, and a vital fisheries issues that impact our region, but deductible and membership is a vital way to part of that equation is membership and fund you have to exercise that voice. At this critical expand our presence and our influence in the raising. time we need each one of you to be involved, Pacific Northwest. Although Washington is the fourth largest attend chapter meetings and help to recruit state chapter in CCA, we have barely new members. The future of our marine This is a critical time in the history of fisheries resources depends on each one of us. management. In addition to the complexities scratched the surface in terms of members,

Government Relations Update Puget Sound Rockfish Conservation Plan

Severe Limits on Puget Sound of conservation is accurately placed, and ongoing loss of derelict fishing gear, such as Recreational Fishing Possible that proposed restrictions will, in fact, be mandatory reporting, permanent marking of effective. nets and state funding for removal efforts. It is widely known that Puget Sound rockfish are in trouble; a majority of stocks are CCA has been actively involved in efforts to In summary, the draft Puget Sound Rockfish severely depressed, including several species conserve and restore Puget Sound rockfish Conservation Plan does not adequately once important to recreational fisheries. populations. CCA played an integral role address the multiple factors impacting rockfish NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service in supporting a $4.5 million federal grant and places undo burden on recreational recently proposed listing three species of awarded to the Northwest Straits Commission fishing. Unfortunately, if not corrected, this to remove 3,000 derelict gill nets lost plan will likely result in decreased recreational and discarded in Puget Sound. CCA’s angling opportunity and no recovery for our Puget Sound Marine Enhancement Puget Sound rockfish. Committee is coordinating an effort to create and enhance rockfish habitat using artificial reefs as guided by the best available science. Unfortunately, CCA Washington the plan does not consider the Remembers Joe Reading benefits of programs like these. The Northwest Straits Commission ghost September 19, 2009 net removal program, which was not even funded when the draft plan Joe was a charter member of the Lewis was being developed, is estimated to Photo provided by NWSI restore 600 acres of habitat, much county CCA Chapter. He did a great of which is complex high relief job, serving as our Treasurer, the last Puget Sound rockfish under the Endangered structure considered premium rockfish couple of years. Joe never missed a Species Act (ESA) – bocaccio, canary and habitat. The draft plan estimates that up to meeting and would follow through yelloweye rockfish. In simple terms, action 61,000 rockfish may be caught and killed with any task he was given. As a true is needed to conserve and restore rockfish annually in ghost nets, many of which are supporter of CCA and this Chapter, He populations. However, any plan must address now being removed. This ghost net mortality will be missed. the primary threats, be based in science, of rockfish is nearly double the estimated include demonstrable scientific research and 35,000 rockfish encountered by recreational Thank you Joe !!! from all of us. verifiable data to indicate that the burden anglers annually. Furthermore, the plan does Lewis County CCA not propose specific measures to limit the

Page 4 | www.CCAPNW.org Issue 12 | November/December, 2009 www.CCAPNW.org | Page 5 Contact Your Local Coastal Conservation Association Chapter and Get Involved! OREGON CHAPTERS COLUMBIA COUNTY PORTLAND METRO Pacific Chapter Location: St. Helens Chapter Location: Portland Northwest President: Ed Rabinowe President: John Zell Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Leadership 503-282-9347 503-366-3565 Meeting Info: 1st Wednesday of Meeting Info: Monthly Every Odd Month, 7 pm 2nd Tuesday, 7pm (No November Meeting) The Village Inn McMenamin’s Kennedy School 1006 W. 11th Street St. Helens, OR 97051 Portland, OR Vancouver, WA 98660 503-397-1490 Banquet Date: TBA, 2010 Banquet Date: April 17, 2010 877-255-8772 St. Helens Fairgrounds ROGUE VALLEY CHAPTER EMERALD EMPIRE - (MEDFORD AND SURROUNDING AREA) OREGON EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD Chapter Location: Medford President: Steve Nelson Chapter Location: Eugene/Springfield Gary Loomis–Founding Chairman, Contact: [email protected] President: Mark Seghetti Pacific Northwest 541-973-6215 Contact: [email protected] Dave Schamp–Chair 541-968-4665 Meeting Info: 4th Tuesday, Every Month President Meeting Info: 2nd Wednesday, 6pm doors open, 7pm meeting John Stec– Monthly (No Dec. Mtg.) Bruno’s Pizza Jack Smith–Vice President and Eagles Aeries Hall 2105 Roberts Rd. Medford, OR Chair, Government Relations 1375 Irving Road Banquet Date: May 21, 2010. Location TBA Lynn Buerer–Vice President Eugene, OR. Banquet Date: May 1, 2010 SALEM and Treasurer Location: Lane CC Events Center Chapter Location: Salem Ken Chambers–Vice President President: Brian Canini and Chair, Membership, Banquet Date: May 1, 2010 Contact: [email protected] Chapter Development 503-930-6860 HIGH DESERT - BEND Vacant–Secretary For meeting or banquet info: Chapter Location: Bend John Stec–Chair, Management President: Ryan Buccola Contact Ken Chambers Contact: 541-728-8551 503-881-8553 or [email protected] Frank Unger–Chair, [email protected] Banquet Date: TBA, 2010 Budget Committee New Chapter: TBA 2010 TILLAMOOK Angela Hult, Bryan Edwards– LINN BENTON CHAPTER Co-chairs, Communications Chapter Location: Tillamook (ALBANY AND SURROUNDING AREA) President: Jack Smith Jim Marquoit–Vice Chair, Chapter Location: Albany Contact: [email protected] Government Relations President: Jess Hillyer 503-842-6313 Contact: [email protected] Meeting Info: Please contact to Meeting Info: 2nd Tuesday, Monthly WASHINGTON 6:30 pm, Pizza King, Albany verify time and location Banquet Date: TBA 2010 Banquet Date: March 20th, 2010 Gary Loomis–Founding Chairman, Location: Tillamook Elks Lodge Pacific Northwest & WA Chairman MOUNT HOOD - GRESHAM Rob Tobeck–Vice Chairman Chapter Location: Gresham TUALATIN VALLEY President: Wade Radke Chapter Location: Aloha Matt Olson–President Contact: [email protected] President: Frank Unger Stan Brogdon–Vice President 971-322-5894 Contact: [email protected] Vice President, Meeting Info: Every even month Glen Johnston– 503-936-6581 2nd Wednesday, 6:30 pm Fundraising Meeting Info: 3rd Monday of Each Month Holiday Inn - Cascade Room Lance Barrett–Treasurer 2752 NE Hogan Drive 7pm (No meeting in December) Carolyn Sork–Secretary Gresham, OR 97303 Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue Banquet Date: TBA 2010 20665 SW Blanton, Aloha, OR Matt Olson–Chair, Management Banquet Date: May 7th, 2010 Lance Barrett–Chair, Budget NORTHEAST - PENDLETON Location: Embassy Suites, Chair, Chapter Location: Pendleton Washington Square Ed Wickersham– President: Scott Paul Government Relations Contact: [email protected] WILLAMETTE FALLS Dale Scott–Chair, 541-276-1951 Chapter Location: Milwaukie Chapter Development New Chapter: TBA President: Rick Atwood Joseph Madrano–Chair, Membership Contact: [email protected] Gary Johnson–Chair, Nominations 503-829-3611 Meeting Info: TBA John Wicklund–Chair, Banquet Date: TBA, 2010 Communications

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NORTH SNOHOMISH COUNTY INLAND EMPIRE KITSAP Established: September 2008 Established: September 2008 Established: April 2008 Chapter Location: Marysville Chapter Location: Spokane Chapter Location: Silverdale President: Errol Collins President: Casey Mason President: Charles Gauthier Contact: (360) 659-5193 Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Meeting Info: Monthly – 2nd Tuesday, 7 pm (509) 590-8383 Meeting Info: Monthly – 4th Thurs., 6:30 pm Bayside Marine, Meeting Info: Time/Date TBA All Star Lanes Silverdale 1111 Craftsman Way, Cabela’s, Post Falls 10710 Silverdale Way Everett, WA 98201 Banquet Date: TBA - 2010 Silverdale, WA Banquet Date: February 13th, 2010 Banquet Date: March 27th, 2010 SEA-TAC HELLS CANYON CHAPTER CAPITOL CITY Established: October 2007 Established: January 2009 Chapter Location: Des Moines Established: May 2008 Chapter Location: Clarkston, WA & Lewiston, ID President: Frank Eshpeter Chapter Location: Lacey President: Michelle Peters Contact: [email protected] President: Frank Betrozoff Contact: (509) 751-2007 Meeting Info: Monthly - 1st Tuesday, 7 pm Contact: [email protected] [email protected] IBEW Local 46 Hall, Meeting Info: Monthly – 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 pm Meeting Info: 2nd Wednesday of 19802 62nd Ave. S. Lacey Fire Dept. #31, odd months, 6:30 pm Kent, WA 98032 1231 Franz St., Lacey Snake River Canyon Lodge Banquet Date: March 12th, 2010 Banquet Date: TBA, 2010 90 2nd Street Asotin, WA LEWIS COUNTY SNO-KING Banquet Date: TBA - 2010 Established: April 2007 Established: January 2008 Chapter Location: NORTH SOUND Centralia Chapter Location: Woodinville President: Jeff Ashe President: Carl Rienstra Established: April 2008 Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Chapter Location: Bellingham Meeting Info: Monthly - 2nd Thursday, 7 pm Meeting Info: Monthly – 4th Thursday, 7 pm President: Marcus Schumacher Powersports NW Sammamish Valley Grange Hall, Contact: [email protected] 300 S. Tower Ave., Centralia 14654 148th Ave. NE (360) 319-6901 Banquet Date: March 20th, 2010 Woodinville, WA 98072 Meeting Info: Contact Marchus Schumacher Banquet Date: November 11th, 2010 for meeting times & locations LOWER COLUMBIA Alternate between Whatcom SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON & Skagit Counties – Established: September 2007 Skagit Co. Location: Sportsman’s Chapter Location: Longview Established: October 2007 Warehouse, Burlington; President: Rick Estes Chapter Location: Camas Whatcom Co. Location: TBD Chapter: [email protected] President: Conan Elliott Banquet Date: May 1st, 2010 (360) 957-3718 Contact: [email protected] Meeting Info: Monthly -2nd Thurs., 6:30pm Meeting Info: Monthly - 2nd Tuesday, 7 pm Monticello Hotel , Longview Camas Meadows Golf Club, Banquet Date: May 22nd, 2010 4105 NW Camas Meadows Dr., Camas - call for directions: (360) 833-2000 Banquet Date: March 13th, 2010

CCA Fish Tales TRI-CITIES Established: January 2008 Chapter Location: Richland President: Stan Brogdon Connor’s First Chinook! Contact: [email protected] (509) 531-1553 Meeting Info: Even Months Oregon CCA member Connor Hult, 11, caught his 2nd Thursday, 7 pm first Chinook in September using a spinner on the O’Callahan’s Cowlitz River. Connor was fishing with his mother and @ The Shilo Inn, Richland Banquet Date: March 5th, 2010 grandfather in professional guide and CCA member Mark Maker's boat. It took Connor's mom awhile to YAKIMA fillet, vacuum pack and freeze the fish, so she said that Established: he gets the honor of packing it the next time around. November 2007 Chapter Location: Yakima President: Mike Hammond Do you have a great fish story and photo to share? If so, we would Contact: [email protected] love to share your “Fish Tale” with CCA PNW members. Please (509) 833-1161 describe your catch in 200 words or less and include a high resolu- Meeting Info: Monthly - 2nd Wednesday, 7 pm tion digital color photo (.jpg or .tif file format). Remember to include Yakima Carpenter’s Hall, your name and your chapter name. Stories might be edited for length. 507 S. 3rd, Yakima Please send stories and photos to [email protected]. Banquet Date: TBA, 2010

Issue 12 | November/December, 2009 page 7 | www.CCAPNW.org Coastal Conservation Association Membership Application

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Associate Member Name(s) (if applicable)______q Mastercard q Amex q Visa q Discover Member ID# (if renewing)______Credit Card #______Address______Exp. Date______City______State______Zip______Signature______Phone______Email______Associate Member Name Gift Membership From:______q $25 MEMBER:Membership card, window decal, 2 bumper stickers, TIDE magazine. q $100 MEMBER: All of the above plus CCA print of your choice Complete this form and send to: q $15 ASSOCIATE: Per each family member. All member privileges except TIDE. Send names. Coastal Conservation Association q $200 SPONSOR: Bronze lapel pin, print, plus member gifts. 1006 W. 11th Street q $500 PATRON: Silver lapel pin, print, plus member gifts. Vancouver, WA 98660 q $1,000 LIFE MEMBER: Life Member display piece, print, plus member gifts. Ph. 877-255-8772 Quarterly payment option available. Ph. 360-694-4300 q $10 NEW TIDE: Rising Tide newsletter, three NEW TIDE logo decals, iron-on T-shirt JoinCCA.org | CCAPNW.org

transfer, redfish & speckled trout sticker. For members 17 and younger.

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