2025-07-30T06:02:15-07:00 2025-03-31 141736009 VAN NORSTRAND & HOOLIHAN PC 187 E MARKET ST STE 202 RHINEBECK NY 12572 990 2024-04-01 237355317 NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC NEWY 9178365615 185 WEST JOHN ST HICKSVILLE NY 11802 TOM LOPROTO Treasurer 2025-07-29 true true Timothy P Hoolihan P01277170 8458765200 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z TOM LOPROTO 185 WEST JOHN ST HICKSVILLE NY 118028049 43777 false X https://newyorkcouncil-tu.org/ X 1968 NY Trout Unlimited ("TUN") is a national grassroots membership organization with chapters spread across the United States. A State Council supervises chapters in each state. The New York State Council of Trout Unlimited (referred to as "NYSCTU") is a financially independent affiliate of TUN Approximately 8,500 TUN members belong to 26 active chapters. NYSCTU is governed by an Executive Committee comprising 27 New York-based Chapter member volunteers. The Chairperson, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and nine Regional Vice Presidents are elected in alternate years to 2-year terms. There are no term limits, so some Executive Committee members have served for many years. The Chairperson appoints additional Executive Committee members. During the latest fiscal, Executive Committee members devoted 2700 hours to NYSCTU programs and activities.NYSCTU's Mission Statement:To unite people to care for conserve, protect, restore, and sustain coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in New York an 21 21 0 0 36779 37196 13189 2715 2750 3866 0 52718 43777 0 0 0 0 10412 54669 63672 54669 63672 -1951 -19895 160513 140618 0 160513 140618 NYSCTU's Mission Statement:To unite people to care for conserve, protect, restore, and sustain coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in New York and bordering states.Council Vision:NYSCTU envisions a future in which the challenges of an ever-changing planet are addressed, robust populations of native and wild cold-water fish once again thrive in their home waters, and all people can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon. false false 27322 Fisheries Enhancement Fund; Please see Schedule O for a more detailed description of our Program Service Accomplishments. 16516 Trout Water Youth Camp. Please see Schedule O for a more detailed description of our Program Service Accomplishments. 2187 The bulk of the $2,187 in Program Service Accomplishments was spent on Youth Education, and Trout in the Classroom. Please see Schedule O for a more detailed explanation of our Program Service Accomplishments. 46025 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 0 false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 21 21 false false false false false true false true true false true true true true false false true false true true false NY X TOM LOPROTO 9178365615 185 WEST JOHN ST HICKSVILLE NY 11802 X CAL CURTICE Council Chair 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 SARAH BAKER VP-DIVERSITY 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 STEPHEN WEITER Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 TOM LOPROTO Treasurer 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JEFF PLACKIS REGION 1 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ROGER OLSON REGION 2 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PAT CRISCI REGION 3 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAN PLUMMER REGION 4 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RICHARD REDMAN REGION 5 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JORDAN ROSS REGION 6 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TOM CARROLL CHAIR-CONSERVAT 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LISA GREEN REGION 8 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CHUCK GODFREY REGION 9 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LINDSAY AGNESS VP YOUTH 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KEITH GTIDBALLPHD VP SERVICE PART 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TBD HYDRO CHAIRMAN 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DON KIEFFER FEF REPRESENTAT 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ALLEN PETERSON REGION 7 VP 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TBD VP-ADVANCEMENT 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN BRAICO MD RESOURCE MGT 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SCOTT SEIDMAN PHD VICE CHAIRMAN 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 LARRY CHARETTE Past Chair 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JEFF PLACKIS NLC representat 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TBD ADVOCACY CHAIR 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 37196 37196 Trout Water Youth Camp 2715 2715 2715 3866 3866 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43777 2715 3866 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 743 0 0 0 75 75 0 0 0 0 0 3272 3272 0 606 606 0 0 0 0 Conservation projects 27322 27322 Trout Water Youth camp 16516 16516 Books,subscriptions,reference 7616 7616 Website & CRM 2796 2796 4726 2187 2539 63672 46025 7235 10412 71316 47556 89197 93062 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 160513 140618 0 0 X 55999 40970 104514 99648 160513 140618 160513 140618 -19895 X false false false X 24368 27989 38153 36779 37196 164485 250 27662 9798 13189 2715 53614 0 0 0 24618 55651 47951 49968 39911 218099 0 0 218099 1032 504 637 2750 3866 8789 0 1032 504 637 2750 3866 8789 0 0 25650 56155 48588 52718 43777 226888 0.96130 0.96150 0.03870 0.03070 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Information to complete Form 990 is provided to the Paid Return Prepared by the Treasurer. After the Treasurers preliminary review of the draft of Form 990, the current is distributed to the Chairman and other Executive Committee members. Once the draft is reviewed and approved, Form 990 is electronically signed by the Chairman and Treasurer and is filed with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a All members of the Executive Committee are non-compensated volunteers, NYSCTU has no compensated employees. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b All members of the Executive Committee are non-compensated volunteers, NYSCTU has no compensated employees. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 NYSCTU is not required by New York State law to have audited financial reports based on revenues less than the statutory thresholds. Form 990 is a required submission as part of the State Charity Registration Renewal process.NYSCTU is listed on the Guidestar (https://guidestar.com) website. Interested people should refer to Guidestar to view the most current and historical Forms 990. TUNs Conflict of Interest Policy and Whistleblower Policy is available on TUNs website (https://tu.org). NYSCTUs By-Laws are available upon written request to: New York State Council of Trout Unlimited, Inc.185 West John St.Hicksville, NY 11802-8049 FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4a, PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS During the sixty years since its founding, conservation has been one of the cornerstones of NYSCTUs program and activities. These conservation initiatives focus on ensuring vibrant habitats to sustain cold-water fisheries. The building blocks for conserving, protecting, restoring, and sustaining cold water fisheries include:Stream and Habitat Restoration: Eroded, widened, with infilled pools and deficient habitats -- all this is attributable to past actions and land uses that disrupted natural stream processes and left many streams too shallow, warm and with decimated habitats essential to sustain all aquatic life. Consequently, many streams and rivers now require both active and passive restoration measures to recover natural conditions that in turn enable natural stream processes to regain lost resiliency that normally provides healthy conditions required for trout and all other aquatic life cycles. With good recovery of natural stream functions, natural processes can maintain: deep pools, sediment free riffles and sediment free spawning areas as well as helping to retaining the in-stream woody habitat that provides feeding areas and refuge from adverse flows and predation.Riparian Buffers: Planting trees and shrubs along ample stream and river floodplain corridors is a seemingly simple yet very impactful aspect of passive stream restoration. Plant roots: protect against excessive erosion, retain cool groundwater that returns to the stream in dry summers, and filters out polluted runoff. Shading canopy cools the water and protects trout from predators. And finally, some mature trees are eventually recruited into the stream boosting natural habitat complexity while contributing directly to important channel processes.Dam and Culvert Removal: These structures inhibit the free migration and movement of trout and salmon. Removing dams and culverts, often installed many decades ago, restores rivers and streams to their original state. Reconnecting rivers and streams is one of the most important strategies to secure a future for cold, healthy rivers under current climate change predictions.TUN Chapters and their members provide on-the-ground labor and resources for completing these projects with guidance from NYSCTUs Conservation Committee and help from TUN staff assigned to the Northeast. In some cases, NYSCTU also provides supplementary funding. The Conservation Committee also oversees implementing TUNs strategic Priority Waters program. The purpose of the science-based Priority Waters program is to ensure that projects are identified and undertaken on waterbodies with the best chance of increasing wild and native fish populations.Besides conservation, NYSCTUs programs and activities include building community through outreach and education. These are some examples of Conservation Programmatic Services: Wiscoy Creek Project: Restored 375 feet of eroded bank, Constructed 12 Lunker structures and installed them, Installed 10 root wads, Tons of Stone used , Grade Control also installed, 100 trees were planted along with live willow stakes, $4500 from the FEF fund were applied toward materials used on the project.Camden Valley Creek 2024 stream restoration: This site was initially recognized as a major source of active bank erosion impacting trout and invertebrate habitats & populations both locally and downstream. Detailed studies (23) revealed two sources of excess sediment inputs: widespread moderate channel incision ramping up stream-energy (eroding both bed and banks) as well as a 200 length of a bank eroding at 15/yr to add an additional 20 tons/yr of sands & gravels per year to the stream. Restoration targeted both problems -- rebalancing stream-energy to meet natural sediment transport requirements and improving limited habitats. The first was achieved by: reconnecting the stream to its bankfull riparian floodplain, reactivating existing natural flood-relief channels, and removing a large in-channel pipe located at the start of the project that directly exacerbated channel incision. The second goal (improving habitats) was achieved with strategic large wood additions, and along the eroding bend by: adding toe-wood to the relocated bend to regain bank erosion rates under 1/yr, adding two J hook pools and a rock riffle to restore bed and bank roughness & improve habitat diversity. Riparian buffers were revegetated and replanted with wetland trees & shrubs on newly formed floodplains and the adjacent low terrace. Outcomes: Overall substantial improvements are seen from pre project incision throughout the 1150 reach. Good to excellent results are noted for: use of the flood relief channels, strategic large wood additions, the geomorphic restoration of the eroding bend (toe wood & rock riffle) that continue to provide added roughness, habitat diversity & access to a new wide bankfull floodplain. The J hook structures remain structurally intact, yet infilled by the residual large sediment loads. The revegetated riparian buffer is excellent.In partnership with Rivers of Recovery and the Hungry Trout Fly Shop and Lodge, NYSCTU hosted 4 combat veterans for therapeutic outdoor recreation and fellowship in the form of fly -fishing in the Adirondacks on the storied Ausable River. This was the 4th year in a row of conducting this event. Keith Tidball, NYSCTU'S Vice President for Service Partnerships once again planned, coordinated, and executed the event.The NY State Council helps develop and support local chapter Headwaters Youth Education programs across NY State. For the Stream Explorers programs we offer Trout in the Classroom (Salmon in the Classroom) here in NY.We engage youth in approximately 281 schools and have 24,676 students actively involved in the program. The State Council also helps chapters work with teens through the Girl Scout STREAM Girls program ( 2 programs ran this past year) & Scouts USA Fly Fishing programs through some of the chapters.We help chapters with Stream Explorers Events and engage communities with Family fishing days & TU Teen fishing days to involve our youth in fly fishing, fly tying, casting, ecology stream engagement and watershed education. TU is also a big supporter of The Mayfly Project, which helps foster care children learn about fly fishing. There are two locations in NY that run The Mayfly project, Rochester & Millbrook NY in which the TU State Council supports. NY TU State Council is also actively involved in 8 college clubs here in NY State. We are also supporting our youth in participation with the Expeditions activities out west. TU has approximately 140 youth members, 90 of them are Stream Explorers while another 50 are TU Teens. The council supports our chapters in recognizing them by offering a NYS TU Youth Education Volunteer Excellence Award each year.This year the Youth Excellence award goes to Mike Linse, from the Canandaigua Chapter.Trout Waters Youth Camp 2024: This camp introduces young men and women between the ages of 14-17 to the sport of fly fishing for trout. The camp places a large emphasis on the conservation and protection of our cold water fishery . Campers learn about the many organisms prevalent in a trout stream and the importance of enhancing and maintaining a clean, cold, and stable water environment for trout and the organisms they live with. Three healthy meals and snacks are provided each day starting with Sunday evening dinner and concluding with a family lunch on Friday. Lessons are presented on fly tying, fly fishing, entomology, ecology, and conservation. All equipment, lodging and meals are provided. The camp is fully insured by the National Trout Unlimited organization. Each evening campers have one-on-one stream experiences with veteran Delaware River anglers. Presenters include some of the top professional guides, fly tiers, and authors from the Catskill area. All camp personnel have been background checked and vetted by TU national. Campers get to experience fly fishing for wild trout in the Catskills, birthplace of American fly fishing. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, Line 8b , Governing Body and Management: There are no Committees having authority to act on behalf of the Governing body. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, Line 12a, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY: Members of the Executive Committee are bound to comply with TUNs Conflict of Interest Policy. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, Line 13, WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY: TUN has established protocols for all TU members to report violations of TUNs policies or illegal actions to TUNs Legal Counsel, TUNs Board Chair, or TUNs Ethics Hotline. FORM 990, SCHEDULE B, PART I, DESCRIPTION OF LISTED CONTRIBUTIONS: BROOKFIELD RENEWAL ENERGY ($9,097.52)Brookfield Renewable U.S. is a leading owner, operator, and developer of renewable power, delivering innovative, renewable power solutions that accelerate the world towards a sustainable, low-carbon future.TROUT UNLIMITED NATIONAL ($14,582.50)TUN rebates a small portion of renewal membership dues to NYSCTU each year. This is the fiscal year 2023-2024 payment received in September 2024.