July's News
TU Scholarship Awards
Each year, the Al Hazzard Chapter provides two scholarship opportunities for students in our area. The Award stipulates that the Recipient must be a graduating senior from their respective high school, pursuing a course
of higher learning at an accredited insitution, in the field of Environmental Studies. Each student is awarded a one-time award of $250.
Our 2009 Scholarship Award Recipients Are:
Mathew Allen from Union Endicott High School plans to attend SUNY-ESF pursuing a degree in Bioprocessing Engineering
Tyler Hanford from Tioga Central High School plans to attend Tompkins Cortalnd Community College studying for an Associates Degree, that includs Environmental Studies.
Geneganslet Creek Stream Structure Upgrade Granted Awarded!
The Green Communities grant for the Al Hazzard Chapter of Trout
Unlimited for the Geneganslet Creek Stream Structure Upgrade project has been awarded funding from Rockwell Collins in the amount of $2,500.
TU Position Positions Open
Program Director: Schedule presenters for the long list of folks, 10 meetings a year, take presenter out to dinner before the meeting.
Newsletter Editor: Produce monthly newsletter, deliver to printer for production and mailing, 10 months a year.
Coffee Table and Snacks: Fill coffee pot and pit out snacks and cups, keep track of donations, get reimbursed as needed from Board.
These are all important jobs, the folks doing them now have done a great job. Many have new positions in TU and need to focus on new challenges.
Here's You Chance to Get Published
The Al Hazzard Chapter is putting together a book of flies specifically targeting trout in the West Branch Delaware, aptly titled,
Flies That Work for the West Branch of the Delaware, A collection of flies from people who fish it.
If you have a go to fly that you think ought to be included, fill out the
form and send it in
with a copy of the fly. You can submit as many flies as you want. The flies will be auctioned off at our Annual Banquet after the book it published. Send all
questions to the book's editor,
Kurt Nelson.
Picture Cast. Upload Your Photos to Our Gallery.
Our latest feature, Picture Cast, allows you to upload photos directly to our Gallery. Show us what you have
been catching, where you have been fishing, what the landscape was like, anything related to the outdoors and the
principles of our Chapter. Click here to visit the
Gallery and start using Picture Cast.
Newest Picture Uploaded: Tue Jun 02 16:54:00 EDT 2009
Calendar
General Meetings
Each meeting is on the the third Tuesday of the month from September to June. All meetings are held in the Vestal Public Library Main Meeting Room
from 7:00-9:00 pm and are free to the public. View our
Guest Speakers page for coming meetings.
No Meetings in July and August
September 15, 2009
October 20, 2009
November 17, 2009
December 15, 2009
January 19, 2010
February 16, 2010
March 16, 2010
April 20, 2010
May 18, 2010
June 15, 2010
September 21, 2010
October 19, 2010
November 16, 2010
December 21, 2010
Board Meetings
Each Board meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month.
Board meetings are held in the conference room or lecture room from 7:00-9:00 pm of the Vestal Public Library.
Board meetings are open to all TU Members in good standing.
July 7, 2009
August 4, 2009
September 1, 2009
October 6, 2009
November 3, 2009
December 1, 2009
January 5, 2010
February 2, 2010
March 2, 2010
April 6, 2010
May 4, 2010
June 1, 2010
July 6, 2010
August 3, 2010
September 7, 2010
October 5, 2010
November 2, 2010
December 7, 2010
Conservation Committee Meetings
The meetings are held at Binghamton General Hospital, Phelps Hall 4th Floor (first multi-story building on Mitchell Ave),
and begin at 7:00 PM.
July 14, 2009
August 11, 2009
September 8, 2009
October 13, 2009
November 10, 2009
December 8, 2009
January 12, 2010
February 9, 2010
March 9, 2010
April 13, 2010
May 11, 2010
June 8, 2010
July 13, 2010
August 10, 2010
September 14, 2010
October 12, 2010
November 9, 2010
December 14, 2010
History
Dr. Albert S. Hazzard, Assistant Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Fish Commission, retired April 1, 1963. Since
December 1, 1955, Dr. Hazzard has directed the Commission’s
land and water management activities including the biological
services, fish rearing, distribution, engineering construction
and maintenance. He led the improvement work in Pennsylvania.
In the Commission he helped organize
and develop the regional fish management program: represented
the commission in developing plans with the U. S. Soil Conservation
Service for multi-purpose lakes under Public Law 566. Dr.
Hazzard served on the advisory committee of the International
Great Lakes Fishery Commission and acted as advisor on fisheries
from Pennsylvania for the Great Lakes Commission. He served
on a staff headed by Dr. Maurice Goddard, Secretary, Pennsylvania
Department of Forests and Waters during the development of
the Delaware River Basin Comprehensive Survey. He also represented
the Fish Commission on various conservation committees with
the state and nationally.
Before going to Pennsylvania and while there, Dr. Hazzard
was active in promoting public trout fishing for sport often
referred to through out the world as the “Fish –for-Fun”
project. He believed that reducing the kill through higher
size limits and restrictions to artificial lures was the most
effective way to better trout fishing. He was a strong advocate
of stream improvement and was convinced that warm-water fishermen
could best be served via the control of pollution, soil conservation,
securing public access to fishing waters and building fishing
lakes rather than by any state-wide program of fish stocking.
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Dr. Hazzard was born in Buchanan,
NY, on July 30, 1901, and graduated from high school in Hancock,
NY. He took an A.B. degree with honors at Cornell University
in 1924, and obtained his Ph.D. degree at Cornell in 1931.
He was an instructor in zoology at Cornell from 1924 until
1931. He was a member and leader of the Streams unit of the
biological survey of the New York Conservation Department,
1926-1930. He was employed as an associate aquatic biologist
by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, in charge of fisheries investigations in the western
inter-mountain region, 1931-1935. In addition to directing
the Institute for Fisheries Research, he served as a research
associate in zoology in the University of Michigan School
of Natural Resources, and as a private consultant in sport
fishery matters. In the later capacity he served the Izaak
Walton League of America in a study in the Adirondacks, and
as a special consultant to the Wildlife Resources Board of
the State of California.
Dr. Hazzard authored over 70 technical
and popular articles relating to fresh-water sports fisheries,
and was a member of the American Fisheries Society, one of
the oldest scientific organizations in the country, served
its president in 1950-1951. While in Michigan he was active
in the Science Research Club of the University of Michigan
and the president of the club in 1955. He was also a member
of the International Association of Fish, Game and conservation
Commission. He was a member of Sigma Xi and Gamma Alpha honorary
scientific fraternities.
Dr. Hazzard was married to Florence
Woolsey of Hancock, NY, and they had five children. They retired
on a farm near Hancock, NY. Dr. Hazzard was a fine scholar,
gentleman and above all a fisherman.