Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person events have been cancelled. Board of Directors and chapter meetings are being held virtually via Zoom. To suggest speakers, presentations or other activities for our chapter meetings, please contact Chris Hensley.
Chapter Meeting Schedule
February 2021
| 2 | Board of Directors Meeting: 7pm |
| 24 | Chapter Meeting: 7pm. Bob Adams, DEC, Region 3 Fisheries Manager will explain the changes in the new NY State fishing management plan and details affecting the the Esopus watershed. |
March 2021
| 2 | Board of Directors Meeting: 7pm |
| 24 | Chapter Meeting: 7pm. Author Mitch Keller is our speaker on March 24th (via Zoom). He will be reading from and talking about his book. East Branch: Six Years on a Catskill Trout Stream About the book: In this creative nonfiction narrative, Keller chronicles his move from New York City to live as a hand-to-mouth trout bum upstate and shares what it is really like to move to trout country to try to build a life around fly fishing—a dream of so many anglers. All the joys and rewards of the angling life are here in abundance, but so are the chronic financial hardship, the menial jobs, the interminable winters, the moments of doubt—everything that comes with that life and the decision to live it. |
April 2021
| 7 | Board of Directors Meeting: 7pm |
| 28 | Chapter Meeting: 7pm. 2020 Christmas Flood. Dany Davis (NYC Department of Environmental Protection) Jason Siemion (US Geological Survey) and Allison Lent (Ulster County Soil & Water Conservation District) will describe what they have learned from studying the 2020 Christmas Day Flood on the Esopus. |
Photo at top by Mark Loete.