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GBTU Meeting Tonight with Featured Guest Speaker Pat Ehler! Topic: “Ways to Become a Better Predator”

By GBTU_President | Published: December 31, 2011

Pat Ehlers opened his fly shop, The Fly Fishers Inc. in 1988 in Milwaukee. He has guided throughout Wisconsin and the Great Lakes as well as in Montana and Alaska. Pat has designed fly rods for Echo Rods, fly lines for both Airflo and Rainy’s Flies, and is a technical advisor for Simms. Pat is [...]

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Volunteers Needed to Help Set-Up for Flapjacks!

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: April 24, 2011

We need approximately 4 volunteers to help set up GBTU’s Flapjacks for Fisheries fundraiser.  Responsibilities will include lifting and carrying furniture, setting up displays, signage, and other misc. tasks.  All volunteers will meet on Friday, April 29th from 5-6:30pm at the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club in Wilmette.  Please contact Jim Tingey at 847-287-5053 or at [...]

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Needed: Flies for Flapjacks

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: April 24, 2011

We are pulling together a few boxes of flies to raffle at Flapjacks for Fisheries and need your help!  If you can spare them, please consider donating some flies to the effort.  We’d like to get them in multiples of six per pattern, but as always, are happy to receive whatever you can part with.  Please bring [...]

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Highland Park Ravines Restoration Project VIDEO!

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: April 4, 2011

Thank you Todd Burleson for making this short video highlighting the progress made at the Highland Park Ravines Restoration Project.  If you are new to the Gary Borger Chapter of TU or just curious, GBTU has been a highly visible participant with this project.  If you would like to participate in monitoring the streams and [...]

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Exposed: Trout in the Classroom

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: March 22, 2011

This week the Hubbard Woods School is prominently featured on the National Trout in the Classroom Website and is also linked to the main Trout Unlimited website.  GBTU is listed for the State Specific Resource for Illinois.  

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Highland Park Ravines Workday: June 18th

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: March 18, 2011

Gary Borger TU and the Parks Department of Highland Park are throwing a workday and your invited. June 18th at 9:00 a.m. at Moraine Park, 2501 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, Il. 60035. Volunteers will be cleaning up the ravine under guidance of Parks Staff. Another large group will be led over to Millard Park to [...]

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House Bill Would Decimate TU’s Work Across U.S.

By TreeTopFlyr | Published: March 1, 2011

Trout Unlimited strongly opposes HR 1, a bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year, due to harmful legislative riders that would block the Clean Water Act and other protective rules for streams and enact sudden and steep cuts in conservation programs.  “The scope of the destruction wrought by this [...]

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