Green Bay Trout Unlimited | Take care of the fish and fishing will take care of itself

We can all be very proud of our accomplishments in over the 2021-22 season. Coming off of the “Covid” year, we did not miss a beat. Check out the year in review below (May 2021 – April 2022).

Committed Donations:

• $6500 + $2000 from a WITU Friends Grant – Towards habitat improvement crew and a UTV (WI DNR – Lakewood)
• $2000 – Towards habitat improvement crew (WI DNR – Antigo)
• $1500 – Towards cost of interns
• $1500 – To create an angler drive and parking area along the Ounce River (WI DNR – Ashland)
• Total: $11,500 + $2000 Friends Grant for a grand total of $13,500

Habitat Work:

• May 8th – Prairie River tree planting
• June 5th– Lakewood fish hatchery clean-up day
• June 19th – Beaver Creek angler access
• July 17th – Thunder River angler access / in-water habitat structure placement
• August 21st – Evergreen Creek brush bundling for stream side clearance and in-water habitat structure placement
• Total: 5 Habitat Improvement Days – 547 volunteer hours (an average of 7.4 GBTU and 15.8 total volunteers / work day)

Education/Outreach:

• Maintaining a Conservation Education Trail at the Northeast Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo
• June 5th – Outagamie County Conservation Club Take-a-Kid-Fishing-Day
• July 26th – Kids’ Fishing Day

Education – Trout-in-the-Classroom (TIC):

• Funded $1500 for a TIC at Lombardi Middle School. GBTU BOD member, and Lombardi school teacher, Carla Zimmerman’s class ran the program. Thirty-one trout were stocked in Haller Creek
• Funded $200 towards a TIC at Bay View Middle School

Fundraising:

• February 17th – Held our first Conservation Banquet in 2 years (46th Annual), raising ~$27,000
• Received donations to place on our GBTU store (hand-crafted bamboo fly rod, guided walleye trip)

Meetings:

• Held 6 Board of Director / GBTU Leaders meetings
• Held several Conservation Banquet Committee meetings
• Held multiple Trout Educational Trail Committee meetings
• Hosted 4 guest speakers

Veteran’s Service Programs:

• November 2nd – For the first time in a year-and-a-half, brought our Veteran’s program back. Our veteran’s program meets every other Tuesday.

Diverse and Active Board of Directors and Leadership Chairs

• Our Board of Directors and Leadership Positions are gender, race and age diverse.

Legislative:

• We have a legislative chair who is connected to the state capital and keeps us informed on issues affecting our clean coldwater resources.

Total Volunteer Hours:

• GBTU efforts contributed a total of 1974.5 volunteer hours in 2021-22. In April of 2022, Independentsector.org released it’s value of a volunteer hour at $29.95/hour. Given this figure our local conservation group donated $59,136.28 worth of volunteer effort. Check out the table below to see where these hours came from…

As you can clearly see, we continue to pride ourselves on being an action, conservation organization. The fact is, we cannot do it without your support !

Thank You for all you do for the Coldwater Resources of Northeast Wisconsin !!