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[Advertisement] Orvis: Help Trout Unlimited Save Five Key Fisheries

By Tom Chandler 5/20/2009

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Save One of Five Fisheries, and See Your Donation Double or Tripled!

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Over the past decade, with the help of our generous customers and other organizations like Trout Unlimited, Orvis has raised and donated $10,000,000 to conservation efforts worldwide.

Now, TU and Orvis have teamed up to support five conservation efforts across the U.S. during TU's 50th Anniversary year. Each effort is a matching grant of $10,000 from Orvis, with four of them also getting matching donations from the National Fish && Wildlife Foundation.

Click here to double your donation to Bristol Bay, and triple your donation to four other great efforts today.












































ProjectThe Resource The Problem The Solution Donation Code
Bristol Bay, Alaska
The world's largest, and internationally-renowned, wild salmon fishery.The world's largest open pit gold-copper mine, Pebble Mine, proposed at the headwater. At least two rivers to be dewatered.Build local support and national awareness toward long-term watershed protections.Donate online, or mail your donation to Dept. AR-1.
The Missouri Headwaters, Montana
The Missouri headwaters: the Jefferson, Big Hole, Beaverhead, and Ruby River.Dewatering and altered flow regimes, degraded mainstem and tributary habitats, and spawning habitat.Improve stream flows and restore habitat.Donate online, or make your donation to Dept. AR-2.
South Fork of the Snake River,


Idaho
The South Fork, home to a critical population of Yellowstone cutthroat trout.Dewatereed spawning tributaries block spawning fish. Non-native rainbow trout hybridize and compete with cutts.Tributary restoration. Water leases for instream flow; removal of barriers.Donate online, or make your donation to Dept. AR-3.
Driftless Area, Upper Mississippi Headwaters
600+ spring creeks in 24,000-square-mile region that drains into the Mississippi.Degraded with soils and fine sediments from massive erosion; denuded riparian from farming practices.Stream habitat and riparian restoration.Donate online, or make your donation to Dept. AR-4.
Battenkill Restoration, Vermont
The famed Battenkill.70% decline in wild trout population due to loss of in-stream woody debris and over-hanging trees for adequate cover.Phase II of successful placement of in-stream woody debris.Donate online, or make your donation to Dept. AR-5.

Make your donation today and we'll match it!

Pick the conservation effort or efforts you want to help, identified by project codes under the descriptions above. Your contribution will be tripled when matched by Orvis and by
the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (and doubled by Orvis for Bristol Bay).

If you prefer to send your contribution by mail, send your check to:

TU 50th Anniversary Projects

Projects AR-1 through AR-5 *
The Orvis Company
178 Conservation Way
Sunderland, VT 05250

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Tom Chandler

As the author of the decade leading fly fishing blog Trout Underground, Tom believes that fishing is not about measuring the experience but instead of about having fun. As a staunch environmentalist, he brings to the Yobi Community thought leadership on environmental and access issues facing us today.

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