s2ary
10-09-2007, 09:45 AM
I did a lot of thinking about this program this weekend, and no matter how you look at it, this is one of the coolest challenges you could ever be involved with. It is also something that could spiral out of control in a hurry.
One of the first things we need to do is demonstrate the resiliency of Brookies without giving out specific locations that hold remnant populations. We need to reassure the doubters without developing a hand guide for wild trout fishing in Southern NH.
The second most important aspect would be a ‘rapid assessment’ based on the minimum limiting factors for Brookies survival. Much of the information we need will be available in existing data bases; we just need to do some web browsing. This will give us an idea of potential within tributaries or sections of rivers around the state.
The third is just plan old field surveys. We create a standardized characterization of stream profiles. Bottom content, percent canopy cover, depth and flow.
All three of these steps should be going on simultaneously, and what they will establish is;
A recruiting tool, to many people what we are proposing is impossible because the watersheds are too degraded. If we demonstrate that all we need to do is abate thermal retention and sediment deposition with examples of the work on the cape, the two Brookie populations within Rt. 128 in Mass, and some other local stats, we will persuade a lot of support.
And a map of southern NH that defines the stream potential for Brookie restoration.
After that it is picking and choosing focus points as we move around the state.
Two other things that we need quickly are a slogan and eventually a logo.
It would be nice to decide on a slogan quickly because I’d like to pitch for a few dozen foam fly boxes with the slogan on it to hand out to volunteers. We’ll use the foam flybox guy in Dover and see if he can put a Brookie on the box with the slogan on it.
Something like;
Back to Brookies
Bringing Brookies Back
Back to the Bay
Put a little Salt in Yer Diet.
Within 6 months or so I think we should have an embroidered logo. If we can develop the logo I’ll pitch the embroidery conversion cost, and depending on the cash flow at the time, I’ll put through the first order. Iron-on and café press stuff would be cheaper, but you get what you pay for. I’d rather pitch the money so we can put the logo on anything including quality heavy canvas ----s and hats. The guy I use in Berwick will put the logo on anything we bring him for $6.
I don’t know what I’m doing with any of this stuff but I think we should have the profile of something recognizable as NH with a brookie and the slogan. We also could put FFNH or TU under it with the year. Something like the old man on the mountain or an outline of the state.
What do you guys think?
One of the first things we need to do is demonstrate the resiliency of Brookies without giving out specific locations that hold remnant populations. We need to reassure the doubters without developing a hand guide for wild trout fishing in Southern NH.
The second most important aspect would be a ‘rapid assessment’ based on the minimum limiting factors for Brookies survival. Much of the information we need will be available in existing data bases; we just need to do some web browsing. This will give us an idea of potential within tributaries or sections of rivers around the state.
The third is just plan old field surveys. We create a standardized characterization of stream profiles. Bottom content, percent canopy cover, depth and flow.
All three of these steps should be going on simultaneously, and what they will establish is;
A recruiting tool, to many people what we are proposing is impossible because the watersheds are too degraded. If we demonstrate that all we need to do is abate thermal retention and sediment deposition with examples of the work on the cape, the two Brookie populations within Rt. 128 in Mass, and some other local stats, we will persuade a lot of support.
And a map of southern NH that defines the stream potential for Brookie restoration.
After that it is picking and choosing focus points as we move around the state.
Two other things that we need quickly are a slogan and eventually a logo.
It would be nice to decide on a slogan quickly because I’d like to pitch for a few dozen foam fly boxes with the slogan on it to hand out to volunteers. We’ll use the foam flybox guy in Dover and see if he can put a Brookie on the box with the slogan on it.
Something like;
Back to Brookies
Bringing Brookies Back
Back to the Bay
Put a little Salt in Yer Diet.
Within 6 months or so I think we should have an embroidered logo. If we can develop the logo I’ll pitch the embroidery conversion cost, and depending on the cash flow at the time, I’ll put through the first order. Iron-on and café press stuff would be cheaper, but you get what you pay for. I’d rather pitch the money so we can put the logo on anything including quality heavy canvas ----s and hats. The guy I use in Berwick will put the logo on anything we bring him for $6.
I don’t know what I’m doing with any of this stuff but I think we should have the profile of something recognizable as NH with a brookie and the slogan. We also could put FFNH or TU under it with the year. Something like the old man on the mountain or an outline of the state.
What do you guys think?