{"id":3266,"date":"2024-07-18T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2024-07-18T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T22:29:17","slug":"presidents-note-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Note &#8211; July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you to the nineteen (19) volunteers who supported the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) Fisheries team with brook trout monitoring and index of biotic (IBI) surveys this summer.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see several volunteers participating in these events for the first time.\u00a0 Two days were spent counting and taking fin clips from brook trout on Anthony Creek and IBIs were conducted on Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River at Greenbrier and Little River above Elkmont. \u00a0 At least fourteen (14) unique fish species were identified during the Little Pigeon River IBI. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed.jpg 400w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>GSMNP Fisheries personnel and Smoky Mountain Chapter TU members will be joining us for the Little River Chapter Picnic on Thursday, July 25 at River Johns Outfitters in Maryville.&nbsp; Additional details are provided further in the newsletter.&nbsp; This is a great time to visit with other TU members and to show appreciation to GSMNP fisheries personnel for the outstanding work they do in the national park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob Bishop<br>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the nineteen (19) volunteers who supported the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) Fisheries team with brook trout monitoring and index of biotic (IBI) surveys this summer.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see several volunteers participating in these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}