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Michigan TU 50th Birthday Celebration - July 18th, for more info http://www.celebratetu.org/
National TU 50th Celebration - August 17 - 23 , for more info http://www.tu50.org
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CVTU is trying out a new location for our General Membership Meetings. The new location is precinct 5 in Rochester Hills. Precinct 5 is located on Auburn Rd. between John R and Dequindre on the North side at the cross street Emmons. The address is 1551 Auburn Rd. Rochester Hills and the parking lot entrance is on Emmons the side street.
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January 12, 2009
Contact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nation’s Largest Coldwater Conservation Organization Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 2009
Trout Unlimited celebrates 50 years of protecting America’s rivers and streams
ARLINGTON, Va. — Throughout 2009, Trout Unlimited will celebrate its 50th anniversary as the nation’s largest and oldest coldwater conservation organization in America.
Started in 1959 by 16 fishermen in Michigan who wanted to protect their local river, TU has grown to 140,000 members in 400 local chapters throughout the country.
TU has been instrumental in restoring more than 10,000 miles of rivers and streams around the country and has been a force in protecting habitat for trout and salmon from Alaska to Maine.
“As it marks its 50th birthday, Trout Unlimited can take great pride in its accomplishments as a steward of and advocate for America’s trout and salmon and their watersheds,” said Trout Unlimited CEO, Charles Gauvin. “This occasion is as much about envisioning the future as it about celebrating the past, so as we toast the organization’s accomplishments, we must remind ourselves of the need to persevere in realizing the promise inherent in the TU mission.”
Since its founding, TU has made numerous tangible contributions to conservation in the U.S., including significant reforms in state water law throughout the East and West. These changes have kept rivers like Montana's Jefferson River and the Housatonic River in Connecticut from running dry. TU has mobilized the sporting community to help pro protect some of America's last best remaining places to hunt and fish and works at the state and federal levels to achieve protections for trout and salmon. For a full list of TU’s achievements in the last 50 years, go to http://www.tu50.org/ Trout Unlimited will host a number of events to mark its 50th anniversary, including a celebration in August at its annual meeting in Traverse City, Michigan, located near where TU was founded near the Ausable River.
TU’s quarterly magazine, Trout, will publish a special 50th anniversary issue in June. TU’s weekly television program, On the Rise, which airs on the Outdoor Channel, focuses on TU’s conservation efforts around the country.
“As TU celebrates its 50 years of conservation, we must bear in mind that it is TU volunteers who have made the organization who we are today,” said Bryan Moore, vice president for Volunteer Operations and Watersheds. “TU members are the backbone that keeps the organization growing and moving forward in everything from on-the-ground restoration of rivers and streams to involving young people in conservation. The 50th anniversary celebration is really a celebration of our 140,000 members around the country.”
TU’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore and sustain North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
For more information on the National TU 50th Celebration, click here http://www.tu50.org
For a more detailed history, check out the National TU Site.
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