A week ago I posted news of a “triple matching grant” aimed at helping recover the hanging-by-a-thread McCloud Redband trout.
If you missed it, Orvis and the National Fish and Wildlife Federation would match your CalTrout donation dollar for dollar — so your $50 would triple to become $150 in the pocket of a McCloud Redband trout.
Hey buddy — can you spare a dime?
OK, we’re lying; the trout don’t see the money (and they’re notorious spenders anyway, buying candy, booze and cigars by the truckload), but they do see much improved habitat — and they gain a shot at recovery.
I beat on CalTrout because they didn’t have a donation page, but they’re a fast-moving bunch, and the Redband-specific donation page is now available on their Web site.
If you haven’t yet donated, take a second and do so onlie — even just a few bucks.
Because of the triple matching grant, you don’t have to be a spoiled hotel heiress to do some good — $25 bucks will go a long way.
It’s 100% certain that one of my movie ideas will become the next Hollywood blockbuster — enabling me to singlehandedly save the redband with my millions — but until that happens, a little bit from each of us will accomplish pretty much the same thing.
See you at the “Save the Redband” CalTrout page, Tom Chandler.
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Hey there Tom!
Actually it is the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation with whom we are partnering in the match.
Thank you for bringing this to the Underground!
JH
Orvis
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Good catch! I had the link right, but the name wrong. It’s fixed.
I’m working too much.
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Orvis is really getting into this. You can save the redband and get an overpriced, er, collectors, rod
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