Please detach and return completed form with your tax-deductible membership dues gift in the attached envelope. Thank you! WHAT IS COLD CLEAN STREAMS TEEMING Please print clearly to ensure accurate processing! Founded in Michigan in 1959, WITH WILD & NATIVE FISH Trout Unlimited today is a NAME JOIN THE national non-profit This is the Brodhead Chapter Trout Unlimited’s vision of

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Member Benefits

Trout Unlimited members support the Protection correct placement of some rocks and logs can change a stream. Education organization’s conservation program while The Brodhead Chapter Riparian and receiving: works with local government and Buffer Advocacy conservancies to  A Subscription to Trout Restoration The Chapter holds many advocate and provide educational general Magazine (Stream some financial One of the best meeting programs on assistance for the ways to protect a Explorer Magazine to fishing and conservation protection of our stream and improve topics that are free to those 12 and coldwater resources the aquatic habitat the public. The Chapter including headwater is to plant a tree, Instruction younger). A Pocono Stream holds several streams at Jonas and the only thing Introduction to Fly Preserve and Conklin Park to the main stem of the Brodhead better than planting Fishing Classes throughout the year, along with annual Fly Creek at ForEvergreen Preserve and every stream in between. a tree is planting a  Membership in your local chapter where you Tree Planting Tying classes. The Chapter also is involved in programs to The Poconos are blessed with tremendous bounty of whole lot of trees introduce women to fly fishing and programs that assist are part of a community that shares your exceptional wild trout streams and it is our mission to protect like the 600 seedlings that the Chapter planted along the military veterans in learning the art of fly fishing. them. A recent project had chapter volunteers installing signs Tobyhanna Creek. The shade provided by trees reduces passion for conservation and fishing. promoting on the Cranberry Creek, the thermal impacts on the stream and the leaf litter from trees Children’s headwaters of the Paradise Creek, and at the ForEvergreen actually forms the base of the food pyramid for many streams. Programs  A Full Color Trout Calendar, Preserve. Stream The Chapter has several Member Card, Sticker, and Decal. Stream programs aimed directly Monitoring at children. The Chapter Restoration is a contributor and a  Special Discounts on Fishing Gear The Chapter is actively Projects monitoring two streams to major volunteer force for and Opportunities to Win Great Gear gather baseline data that will the annual KOC The chapter has worked Children’s Fishing in Members Only Drawings and be used as comparison data to restore thousands of to measure impacts from Teaching the next generation Tournament in Sweepstakes. feet of stream damaged Marcellus Shale Extraction Stroudsburg. The by storms and man. including the impacts of Chapter holds a fly fishing program at the KCEEC summer Tons of boulders have pipeline projects. The Chapter camp each year and sponsors a child each year. The been carefully placed in also regularly includes a Chapter is a sponsor of the Monroe County Youth Field Day. Before many of our public monitoring element into our The chapter also sponsors campers to the River Conservation waters to de-channelize streams and create a more diverse conservation projects to and Fly Fishing Youth Camp and the Keystone/TU Teens aquatic habitat. We measure the success through Conservation Summer Camp. The Chapter also sponsors a intend to keep documenting the trout Trout In the Classroom program. momentum going with population before and after Stream Sampling more projects every the project. We also fund Give Back to Your Community year. To date work macro-invertebrate studies to has been completed determine if a development project is having a negative impact By joining Trout Unlimited and participating in your local on the Martin’s Creek on aquatic life. There are additional citizen science projects Chapter, you and your family can help protect and restore near Bangor, the available through the national organization. your local rivers for generations to come. All of Trout Brodhead Creek Unlimited’s 400 Chapters are volunteer-led 501.c.3 near Analomink, the Garbage Clean-ups charitable organizations that rely on people like you to Pocono Creek in step forward and take care of your home waters. Please Tannersville, and the The Chapter has been involve in many garbage clean-ups and consider becoming a member and volunteering with your McMichael Creek After we strive to be involved in at least one annual clean-up. local chapter today. WWW.TU.ORG/INTRO and select Fisherman on the Pocono near Stroudsburg and Sciota. You would be amazed how the 289