Recent LCI Accomplishments

Posted Mon, 2009-10-12 20:08 by Chris Baker
  1. Arranging Aerial Lake Observation Trips for Fisheries Managers and Water Quality Experts
  2. Launch of Bobber Bob and LCI Tackle Team children’s conservation education and fishing heritage promotion program
  3. Successful Lewis Creek Sea Lamprey Control Petition
  4. VT Governor appoints LCI Director to represent State on New England Interstate Water Quality Commission
  5. Partnering with Natural Resources Conservation District to promote rain gardens and stream clean-ups
  6. Successful Poultney and Hubbardton Rivers Sea Lamprey Control Petition
  7. Promotion of NRCD brook clean-up and rain garden programs
  8. Coordinated meeting of Lake Champlain Federal Delegation and Lake Champlain Management Cooperative to introduce solutions to future federal funding and staffing of sea lamprey control program
  9. Executive Director Named to American Sportfishing Association Government Affairs Committee
  10. Creation of LCI After-School Fishing Club Grant Program: Three Programs Underway
  11. Donated more than $27,000 to Mentoring Partnership with HowardCenter: Fishing for Friends
  12. Participation at several conferences representing Angling and Conservation Interests:
    • Lake Champlain: Our Lake, Our Future Research
    • Conference
    • American Sportfishing Association Annual Meetings
    • American Sportfishing Association Government
    • Affairs Committee meetings
    • NEIWPCC Commission meetings
    • Future of Vermont Conference
    • NPS Pollution Conference
  13. Establishment of the Champlain Fisheries Recovery Initiative
  14. Received community grants from IBM and General Dynamics toward Bobber Bob program
  15. Produced Invasive Species educational PSA airing on television and on YouTube
  16. Father’s Day Derby named Top 10 Summer Event by Vermont Chamber of Commerce
  17. Facilitated national advertising for Champlain fishing with chamber coalition in Bassmasters Magazine
  18. LCI Governor’s Cup Raises $6,000 for Mentoring and Restoration in 2008
  19. LCI Governor’s Cup Raises $4,000 for Next Generation Fund
  20. Creation of Partnership to consider removal of Swanton Dam and Restoration of Mississquoi River
  21. Promotion of Lake Champlain at 8 tradeshows each winter
  22. Launch of Fish and Flowers Rain Garden Program
  23. Executive Director Appointed by VT Governor to Lake Champlain Citizens’ Advisory Committee
  24. Executive Director Named to FishAmerica Foundation Committee
  25. LCI Submits Official Comments on Carry Bay Causeway with Army Corps of Engineers
  26. Successful Winooski and Missisquoi Rivers Sea Lamprey Petition
  27. Arranged for Support of American Sportfishing Association on Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control
  28. LCI Submits Official Comments on Lake Champlain Fisheries Strategic Management Plan
  29. Representing fisheries interests on Sea Lamprey Control Alternatives Working Group
  30. Launch of LCI Angler Night at the Ballpark promoting F&W conservation programs, “Let’s Go Fishing” program, Lake Champlain Committee efforts and HowardCenter’s Community Friends mentoring program
  31. Internet Advocacy Avenues established for Angling and Conservation Community on Twitter, YouTube, facebook, a forum, an email database, and a blog
  32. Promotion of Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission’s Smart Waterways Program
  33. Educated on the need for federal support of cormorant control on Lake Champlain
  34. Representing fisheries interests during Lower Winooski Basin Planning process
  35. Led effort to educate public and VT Legislature on conservation importance of Vermont fish hatcheries preventing their closure