Sponsors

The Wild Trout Symposium gratefully appreciates the support provided by these agencies and individuals. These contributions help preserve, protect and perpetuate wild trout around the world for the generations to come. For more information concerning sponsorship opportunities, please contact Amy Wolfe (awolfe@tu.org).

If you or your organization is interested in supporting the Wild Trout Symposium, there a multiple ways to become a sponsor. For information about sponsorship levels, please click here to learn about them. To apply as a Wild Trout Symposium sponsor, please fill out the Sponsorship form and mail it with your check to:

Amy Wolfe, Wild Trout X, Trout Unlimited, 18 E. Main St, Suite 3, Lock Haven, PA 17745

Premier Sponsors

The BLM manages more inland fish habitat than any other State or Federal agency, including 117,000 miles of fish-bearing streams and over 3 million acres of lakes and reservoirs. The more than 250 million surface acres managed by the BLM contain diverse water bodies, from isolated desert springs harboring populations of rare and unique fish to large Columbia River tributaries that provide habitat for Pacific salmon and steelhead as they migrate long distances to breed.

BLM waters support subsistence fisheries that sustain traditional Native American cultural heritages, as well as nationally significant recreational fisheries such as Gunnison Gorge in Colorado, Lake Havasu in Arizona/California and the Rogue River in Oregon. Public lands also support 127 federally-listed threatened or endangered aquatic species, 155 BLM sensitive species, and a variety of highly valued sport fish species. In short, BLM's rivers, lakes and streams are of great ecological, cultural, and recreational importance.

Today TU is a national organization with more than 150,000 volunteers organized into about 400 chapters from Maine to Montana to Alaska. This dedicated grassroots army is matched by a respected staff of lawyers, policy experts and scientists, who work out of more than 30 offices nationwide. These conservation professionals ensure that TU is at the forefront of fisheries restoration work at the local, state and national levels.

Nearly 50 years after its founding, no other conservation organization is as well placed as TU to make a difference for the nation's coldwater fisheries. To learn more about TU's ambitious conservation agenda, please visit the conservation section of our website TU Conservation.

Event Sponsors

Founded in 2003, the Fisheries Conservation Foundation (FCF) is a nonprofit organization that supports the work and knowledge of aquatic scientists, resource managers, and environmental professionals. Our mission is to promote a better understanding of marine and freshwater fishery resources among fishery users, the general public, and political decision-makers, and to encourage the enlightened management of fisheries resources for their optimum use and enjoyment by the public.

The FCF strives to ensure that objective, peer-reviewed scientific information about fisheries and aquatic resources reaches policy-makers and the public, so the decisions made about the use of our freshwater and marine ecosystems are logical, informed, and based on the principles of sustainability.

To be effective in creating solutions for today's complex aquatic resource problems, the Fisheries Conservation Foundation works to form partnerships with other conservation organizations that have similar goals. By joining with our strategic partners, we collectively work to make a real difference.

Joseph Urbani & Associates, Inc. specializes in the creation and restoration of stream, wetland, and lake ecosystems.

Involved in fisheries enhancement for over 22 years, Joe Urbani is a pioneer in bringing recreational fisheries and resource property management to the private and public sectors. He has successfully integrated experienced professionals who combine their diverse expertise and knowledge into a results-oriented team.

Joseph Urbani & Associates, Inc. is a recognized provider of habitat enhancement and reconstruction of stream, wetland and lake ecosystems that have been degraded by past land management practices, human development and/or erosion. Our team maintains an efficient, cost-effective and common sense approach throughout the life of a project while embracing a strong commitment to the environment.

Meeting Sponsors

Founded in 2003, the Madison River Foundation is an advocate for the Madison amid the challenges of rapid residential and population growth, commercial development, increasing recreational use and the traditional Western competition over scarce water resources. We strive to work collaboratively with all those who live, work, and recreate on this storied river and its related watershed.

Based in Ennis, Montana, the Madison River Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit membership organization incorporated under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We are supported by the voluntary contributions of members, friends and donors.

The Foundation has a dual mission: advocacy and conservation. In its advocacy role the Foundation seeks to be “a voice for the river” in the public arena, advocating worthy public and regulatory policies based on sound science. In its conservation role, the Foundation funds and provides through its membership “boots in the water” volunteer labor for a variety of conservation-oriented projects.

Aldo Starker Leopold Wild Trout Award Sponsor

Advanced Telemetry Systems, Inc. is an innovative, science and engineering-based radio telemetry provider, dedicated to supporting biologists world-wide. Our commitment to our customer's success has helped us build a reputation as the leader in fisheries and wildlife research. We've partnered with preeminent researchers to design the most reliable radio tracking systems ever deployed. The experienced professionals at ATS possess a thorough understanding of the challenges you'll face in the field, and we're ready to provide you complete solutions - and valuable customer support - for your study's radio tracking equipment needs.

The Wild Trout Symposium gratefully acknowledges ATS and their support of the Aldo Starker Leopold Medal. Dick Reichle and his wife, Laura, stepped forward to make the casting of these bronze medals possible. Thank you.

In-Kind Sponsors

The Federation of Fly Fishers is a 43 year old international non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of the sport of fly fishing through Conservation, Restoration and Education. The Federation of Fly Fishers and its Councils are the only organized advocate for fly fishers on an national and regional level.

The idea to create a national federation of fly fishing clubs by people who also were willing to take action, seems to have sprung up on both coasts in the early 1960's. In June 1965, the first Conclave of the Federation of Fly Fishers took place in Eugene Oregon and was hosted by the McKenzie Flyfishers. Today the FFF has grown to over 300 clubs, and the organization is moving more and more toward being an organization comprised of individual members. Our goal is to support fisheries conservation and educational programs for all fish and all waters. Anywhere fly fishers have an interest, the FFF can and does play a role.

The FFF joined Trout Unlimited in becoming a cosponsor of the Wild Trout symposiums at WT-II in 1978. Through dedicated staff and continued support, the mission of Wild Trout has benefited from this generous vision. Many thanks to the individuals involved in making this happen.

Greg Keeler generously crafted the song "Born to be Wild" for the WT-IX Symposium in 2007, in West Yellowstone, Montana. Professor Keeler teaches English by day at Montana State University-Bozeman and entertains the rest of us with wonderful, irreverent, original songs concerning all things fishing. Take a moment to visit his website for captivating art and prose. Thank you, Dr. Keeler, for sharing your gifts with the Wild Trout Symposium.

Dave Lewis, a lover of nature and visual arts, as well as stellar custom rod maker, spent many an hour capturing the beauty of fish and fishing across the country. The wild trout community lost Dave to cancer in 2008, after a long full life of appreciating the spirituality of wild trout country. His photos grace the WT Symposium web pages and we thank him for the opportunity to experience these extraordinary images and through them, him.