Dear SRBTC Supporters and Friends,

Please join me and others to celebrate SALTER, a new book about the improbable return of the magical sea-run brook trout to the little rivers of Cape Cod.

Schedule and more details here: >>Schedule >>Press Release.

First, I want to thank you all for your support and friendship through the years.

Second, as you all know, I have retired, moved to Downeast Maine, and shut down our 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, so SRBTC is unable to accept donations or funds of any kind.

The website and Facebook pages are too dear to me – and too important to the larger community – to change radically, but I hope to get around to that at some point, once I figure out what to do with SRBTC as a whole. I keep trying to quit but it keeps calling me back!

SRBTC may evolve into something else; I toy with the idea of calling it the “Sea Run Brook Trout Collaborative” or something like that, as the website and practice is too good to fully shut down.

Third, of course I am still involved as an ecologist and conservation minded angler – I’m doing citizen science style fisheries-based independent consulting for several organizations here in Maine and Massachusetts. I’m focusing on conservation, water chemistry and environmental DNA – as well as a few other things. Maybe more on that later.

Fourth, the reason for this email is to announce this new and exciting SALTER book and to invite you all to book reading / signing events at familiar locations in the area. Wild River Press publisher and author Tom Pero will be doing readings, answering questions, leading walks, as well as selling and signing books in numerous locations starting at the end of this month.

Events are scheduled at many locations, as shown in the schedule >>here.

I am attending as many of these events as I can, as I’m helping Tom Pero as a Master of Ceremony, the technical guy behind the scenes, and – of course – as a (minor) contributor to the book.

I look forward to saying hello to each and every one of you.

SRBTC’s and my own mission – to take what we’ve learned about brook trout restoration and share it with others – is still very much driving my daily activities. SALTER is truly a dream come true as it spreads the word like nothing else. Tom’s book is excellent.

Beyond being well written and well researched, SALTER tells the story like no other book because Tom was there at the very beginning, working with Fran Smith on the Quashnet some 50 years ago. Later Tom went on to become Managing Editor of Trout Magazine for Trout Unlimited – so Tom has seen it all, and we are extraordinarily fortunate that he went on to found Wild River Press, which later took on the SALTER project.

Sincerely,

Geoffrey Day
Former Executive Director (retired)
East Machias, ME