The chapter offers many opportunities to support our mission from short duration tasks and events to committee and leadership roles. We have openings in all of our committees and workgroups:

Communications

Conservation

Education

Fundraising

Membership

Programs and Events

Next Clean up planned for April 2023

The St. Vrain Chapter participates in CDOT’s Adopt-a-Highway program. We are responsible for Mile Markers 22 through 25 along State Highway 7 in the South St. Vrain Canyon. Twelve volunteers will make short work of cleaning up litter on both sides of the highway. This event is family friendly; students can earn volunteer hours. Youth under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

The chapter typically hosts 2 clean up events annually, spring and fall.

September 2023, Dates TBD

The chapter supports Lyons Elementary School by assisting delivery of this National Fishing in Schools curriculum teaching casting skills to 5th grade Physical Education class. Volunteers help students practice and reinforce casting instruction over 4 weeks, 2 class sessions per week. The month long program ends with a fishing day. Minimum 6 volunteers needed per session. Volunteers may fill one or more class sessions.

Next Expo planned for Feb 2023

We always need some extra hands to help with this fundraiser event. Volunteers help with the set-up and tear-down and other onsite event logistics.

Scheduled Monthly

Do you like to teach others how to tie flies? Volunteer to be a table lead and demonstrate a designated pattern and assist new and novice tyers.

Next program scheduled March-May 2023

This program typically runs in the winter/spring, March through May, over 6 sessions. Volunteers assist instructors by providing students one on one support for fly tying, macroinvertebrate sampling, fly casting, and fly fishing. Six Class Sessions:

Fly Tying Session 1

Fly Tying Session 2

Fly Tying Session 3

Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Sampling in St. Vrain Creek

Trout Behavior, Fly Casting, Conservation

Fly Fishing at a Local Pond

Minimum 6 volunteers needed per session. Visit https://www.svatu.org/kids-learn-to-flyfish to register,

April 2023, date TBD

This is an tabling community outreach event for the chapter. It’s an opportunity to meet community members and share chapter activities. Volunteers help with providing one on one or small group fly casting instruction. Volunteers may also help with casting and fly tying demonstrations.

Spring 2023, date TBD

STREAM Girls is an outdoor watershed experience that employs STEM-education (science, technology, engineering, math) plus recreation and arts to explore a local stream. By visiting a local stream and having the opportunity to observe it as scientists, anglers, and artists, Girl Scouts in the 4th through 8th grade (juniors and cadettes) will get the complete picture of what their stream could mean to them. Volunteers help teams of Girl Scouts at Izaak Walton Park in Longmont as they observe a stream, collect flow data, sample macro-invertebrates (aka aquatic bugs), tie flies, and learn fly casting. Come help mentor our next generation of scientists!

September 2023, Date TBD

Join St. Vrain Anglers, Can’d Aid, City of Longmont and The Watershed Center as a Citizen Scientist in an effort to collect data and monitor the health of the St. Vrain Creek. Volunteers work in small teams to collect, identify, and catalog aquatic macroinvertebrates. If you like nature and attention to detail, this is a fun look at life below the water in our streams. Scientists from the City of Longmont and Trout Unlimited lead the teams. Join as a leader or a participant.

August through May

Trout in the Classroom is largely a school directed program supported and funded by Trout Unlimited. Within the chapter geography, Lyons Elementary and Niwot High School are raising trout from eggs to fry every school year. The school liaison acts as a coordinator between the classroom teacher and various resources available through the chapter and state council.