OPTU General Meeting - December 3, 2014

OPTU MEMBER MEETING - DECEMBER 3, 2014

Our monthly member meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at the Viscount Suites Hotel on Broadway Blvd.   Social gathering will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the formal meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m..

We are pleased to announce that our featured speaker is Brad Powell, the Southwest Regional Director for Trout Unlimited!     Brad grew up in Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri.   He has worked for more than 30 years with the U.S. Forest Service, serving as District Ranger, National Monument Manager and Regional Forrester.  He joined the staff of Trout Unlimited seven years ago.   As Southwest Regional Director Brad works with TU staff and volunteers in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to ensure that our voices are an integral part of the decision-making process with respect to important fish habitats on public lands.

Brad will give an overview of TU, and will discuss the Southwest Native Trout Initiative (more information about this can be found on our OPTU website.  TU has identified the desert southwest as a top five priority for action and plans to commit substantial funding and personnel resources over the next 5 years or more to ensure success of habitat restoration and native trout re-introduction projects.

We encourage you to join us for this important presentation.   And we encourage you to use our new website as linked above.   We will be relying on our website to inform our members, YOU, about upcoming fishing outings, meetings and many other informative happenings.    See you next Wednesday!