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A lifelong angler, Luca Adelfio has National

From the Editor been an active TU member since his early
teens. Luca conducts field research for TU’s Leadership
[Beth Duris] Bonneville cutthroat trout restoration effort,
and authored TU’s first blog in 2006. Luca
Conference
spends his winters in Ennis, Mont., where

Tikkun Olam
TU’s 2007 National Leadership
he works as a ski patroller. This is his first contribution to Trout. Conference will be held
September 13-15 at the Grove
Several months ago, we ran a contest on tu.org asking people how they would use three extra days we mis- Dr. Robert Behnke is one of the world’s Hotel in Boise, Idaho. It will be
takenly included on TU’s 2006 calendar. The winning entry, which is printed in its entirety online, was a foremost experts on North America’s trout and the fifth annual meeting of the
thoughtful essay from Rabbi Eric Eisenkramer, associate leader of a synagogue in Syosset, New York. salmon species. He is the author of Trout and National Leadership Council.
Rabbi Eisenkramer is an avid fly-fisherman (just check out his blog, www.theflyfishingrabbi.blogspot.com), Salmon in North America, as well as more than 100
The local TU members will host
but he told us he wouldn’t spend all three days on the stream. Instead, he’d reserve some time for family articles and papers on fish and fisheries. His
fishing trips on September 12 on
and friends and some for the practice of tikkun olam, the Jewish ideal of repairing the world. As he put it, he “About Trout” column has appeared in Trout for
would “do something that I could be proud of.  I am speaking of an act that makes the world a better place, more than 20 years. some of the region’s finest rivers.
even if just slightly.” September 13 will feature a tour
This, of course, is TU’s business. In this issue, you’ll read more about TU’s long-term approach to con- of Idaho TU’s restoration work.
servation success—our best thinking about how we can make sure that the next generation has the chance to
Chris Camuto is the author of A Fly Fisherman’s September 13-15 are reserved
Blue Ridge, Another Country: Journeying toward the
catch native and wild fish in their home waters. Cherokee Mountains, and Hunting from Home: A Year for the Annual Member’s Meeting,
It’s a grand vision, but one we can achieve if enough people spend a little less time fishing and a little Afield in the Blue Ridge. A long-time columnist for training workshops for volunteers,
more time helping fish. After all, as Rabbi Eisenkramer so eloquently notes, “Every effort to repair the Trout and Gray’s Sporting Journal, he teaches in the meeting of the National
world, however small, is always valuable.” the English Department of Bucknell University. Leadership Council and TU’s con-
servation awards ceremony. For an
Native fish columnist Gregg Patterson is an agenda and registration informa-
accomplished outdoor writer with more than 350 tion, see www.tu.org.
magazines articles to his credit, including several
Trout features. He’s been honored by the Outdoor
Writers Association of America and has served as a
commentator for ESPN outdoors. He is the com-
munications director for Ducks Unlimited.
Notice
of Annual
Our cover photographer Ken Susman Meeting
is a practicing surgeon living in Mendocino,
Calif., only 45 minutes from the Garcia River. Friday, September 14, 2006
A regular contributor to California Fly Fisher 9 a.m., Grove Hotel
Magazine, Susman says he is “still stuck on film,
Boise, Idaho
but getting closer all the time to making the big
switch to digital.” He names Galen Rowell as Notice is hereby given to the
his biggest influence in photography. members of Trout Unlimited, a
Michigan non-profit corporation,
Before coming to Trout Unlimited in September that, pursuant to the provisions
of 2001, Chris Wood served as the senior of the bylaws, the 48th Annual
policy and communications advisor to the chief of Meeting of members will be held
the U.S. Forest Service for four years. Chris began to elect Trustees and to take up
his career as a temporary employee with Forest
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