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Last Call for Lunch Mob for 1/25

Lunch Mob 20-or-so: While non-eaters and brown-baggers are certainly welcome at this week's noon meeting, here's your last call to join the lunch mob, supporting a local restaurant (Nutty Squirrel this month).

Read more for the choices; Nutty Squirrel has asked to have the order in by noon Monday.

Announcements for January 25

Breakfast will be served (at our February morning meetings): we will continue to provide a simple breakfast brought to Ezekiel by our crack volunteer breakfast team for our morning meetings. You’ll need to show up to find out more!

We have a president elect – At the December board meeting, Jason announced that Rick Heuertz has agreed to serve as President Elect for January-June 2022, then take the reins as president for 2022-23. The board all committed to continue our support, and we’ll be looking for support from our whole membership as we continue and expand our service in River Falls and beyond.

Managing Fisheries on Local Rivers

January's NOON meeting: If any of you trout fisherpersons take your catch for granted – assuming that you are successful in hooking fish and not just bushes, trees, your lucky fishing hat, your thumb, or any unintentional “catch” your hook finds – you won’t be able to take the presence of fish in the streams for granted after Tuesday’s NOON meeting. Kasey Yallaly of the Wisconsin DNR will tell us about her work managing fish populations in our local rivers including, of course, the Kinni. Given how well regarded the Kinni is as an attraction to River Falls, even us non-fishers appreciate the value of her work.

About the speaker: Kasey began her career in natural resources at Southeast Missouri State University in 2011, where she graduated with a degree in Wildlife Conservation and Management while working for the Missouri Department of Conservation for three years as a forestry research technician and fisheries technician on large rivers. From there, she worked for Idaho Department of Fish and Game for three years on coldwater and warmwater fisheries. She then attended Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and graduated with her Master’s degree in Fisheries Management in 2018. Kasey has been working as the Fisheries Biologist for the Wisconsin DNR out of the Baldwin office since 2018 where she manages fisheries resources in Pierce, St. Croix and western Dunn counties.

Disc Golf 101 and the Local Scene

Andrew Reese started playing disc golf in the late 2000s with only one disc, playing occasionally. His interest grew, and he became a founding member of the River Falls Disc Golf Club.

In telling the club about disc golf and the River Falls club, Andrew pointed out that most of the basics of disc golf are similar to ball golf. Holes on courses vary in number but are generally divisible by 3 (Hoffman Park has 9). Courses vary in terrain and challenge; some are in open, flat areas, others are in heavily wooded and/or hilly terrain. The discs used are of four main types – putter, mid-range, long-range, and drivers to use off the tee. There is no set number of discs.