Somebody’s buying a lot of dog beds; Orvis continues funding worthwhile conservation causes with some pretty aggressive matching grant programs (in partnership with the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation)
This one’s aimed at revitalizing the Penobscot River — a river I’ve actually driven over. If that doesn’t lend a dramatic aura to this money raising effort, then maybe this will:
Since dams were first placed nearly 200 years ago, the life that once pulsed through the Penobscot River and its region has been significantly changed. The dams do not allow the Penobscot tribe free river travel. They also adversely affect angling and paddling opportunities, and diminish the tribe’s and other local communities’ ability to thrive as successfully as they might otherwise.
The fishery the Penobscot Indian Nation once depended on has been all but decimated. Runs of tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon, American shad, alewife, rainbow smelt, sturgeon, striped bass, and nearly half a dozen more native species of fish that once migrated from the Gulf of Maine into the river are all but gone.
If you’ll recall, Orvis, CalTrout and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation used pretty much the same program to raise better than $120,000 for Redband Trout Recovery, and their goal for the Penoboscot is $150,000.
The beauty of this is simple; your $50 donation gets matched twice, so your $50 generates a $150 impact on the Penobscot. You’ll find more information right here, or just skip the information gathering phase and donate online.
When they do get the online thing going, I’ll post again.
With any luck, the next time I drive over that river, I’ll stop, peer over the bridge railing, and see Atlantic Salmon swimming upstream. See you on the Penboscot, Tom Chandler.
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