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TIC set to double for the 2007-’08 school year
Although the summer is not yet over, we are expecting the number of schools participating in Trout in the Classroom in New Jersey to double from 25 to at least 50 for the new school year. Numerous schools are scrambling to locate funding to join our 25 current programs. As of the date […]
More...Women’s Fly Fishing Course at Pequest Hatchery
[ June 24, 2007; ] On Sunday June 24, 2007, the State Council sponsored a women’s introduction to fly fishing at the state’s Pequest Trout Hatchery in Oxford, NJ. The class covered lines & leaders, knots, safety, equipment, conservation as well as casting instruction and fly fishing on the Education Pond for the large rainbows that lurk there. Instructors were: […]
More...Trout in the Classroom releases
Spring of 2007 and our first major release of brook trout is ongoing this month and into June. Many of our 25 TIC schools around the state have released their brookies into “local” year-round trout streams. For many schools, “year-round: was much further away that they had expected. Working from a pre-approved […]
More...New Trout in the Classroom Website debuts
Thanks to a new, dedicated website that debuted in September 2006, participating students and teachers in Trout in the Classroom, NJTU’s innovative conservation education initiative, will be able to share their year-long explorations of fish biology, stream habitat and the importance of preserving our cold, freshwater natural resources.
More...Trout in the Classroom Reaches 4,000 Students in ‘06-’07 School year
Trout in the Classroom (TIC) grew from one program in New Jersey to 25 in one year. During the course of the 2006 - ‘07 school year, TIC reached more than 4,000 students from Jersey City to Camden to Sussex County and the Jersey Shore. This program is exploding all over the country […]
More...TIC Program Coordinator Named
Brian Cowden never expected to teach school, but when classes resumed in September, the long-time TU volunteer and avid fly fisherman discovered that he had nearly 4,000 students.
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