Projects
Evergreen Trout Unlimited participates in many projects involving Bear Creek and our local community. Among these recurring projects are:
- Restoring and Improving Bear Creek
- Organizing small to large projects to improve the habitat and fishery of our "home" stream
- Bi-Annually cleaning the creekside and creek of debris
- Monitoring Bear Creek
- Collecting temperature data at several locations in the creek throughout the summer months
- Preparing testimony and exhibits in an ongoing struggle to safeguard the stream's health under EPA and state regulations
- Testifying before EPA and CO Water Quality Control Commission staff about the health of the stream
- Aiding in fish counts with Div of Wildlife staff; preparing summaries of fishery numbers
- Watching for poaching or rule violations
- Teaching kids about trout and flyfishing
- Participating at the Jefferson County Mt. Evans Outdoor Lab with fly-tying and flyfishing instruction
- Running the 4th of the July Kid's Fishing Clinic at Evergreen Lake
- Organizing kids' fishing camps at the Buchanan Rec Center and Ponds
- Aiding with the children's fishing activity at Camp Comfort (a program of Mt. Evans Hospice)
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