Upcoming Events
Fly tying with Bob Ferri
Please join us!
When: May 15th 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Where: 125 Airport Rd. Concord
News
Update on the watershed – the Warner River
This is a Summary of the years of good work by our volunteers and the investment in the watershed.
Systematic data is now in place to drive future decisions and work, but we need to continue the
processes to monitor for any changes driven by development or change in environmental patterns that
threaten the watershed. Next steps: Monitoring by Town Conservation Committees, Support to
culvert processes to enhance connectivity,2025 Warner River Watershed project update 4-4-25and Understanding of the changes to fish population.
Additional needs for volunteer actions beginning this spring. Leadership from Fish and Game and the
Basil Woods TU will continue. (One new face. Greg Swick has replaced George Embley who has taken
a step back from active participation.) Heads up for direct contact.
From: Ben Nugent, Fish and Game Biologist
Hello everyone! We hope this note providing an update for the Warner River Watershed Conservation
Project finds our dedicated volunteers and friends well. We’re looking forward to resuming stream
monitoring again this field season and there will be opportunities to provide assistance for a variety of
reasons. This will mark the 14th year of this volunteer dependent effort in the watershed. Over the
course of this project, we have amassed a list for the contact emails from a great number of volunteers.
In order to ensure we maintain a list of volunteers who are still interested in receiving these updates
and/or to sign up for field sampling days, please send an email to Greg Swick (justswick@gmail.com) to
confirm you are still interested. Greg will likely send this same request when we announce our first
volunteer day in mid-April. Thank you.
Basil Woods Chapter supports NH Fish & Game as they characterize Ballard Brook
Friday the 13th of September was lucky for the chapter and brook trout in a tributary of the Warner River.
The Basil Woods chapter supported NH Fish and Game as they characterize Ballard Brook, part of the Warner River watershed. The action was to count and catalog the wild brook trout population prior to the removal of an impassable culvert.
The culvert, shown in this picture, represents a risk to Red Brick Road and a barrier to wild trout movement. The culvert will be replaced to improve resilience to high water events but will also allow fish passage and wildlife resilience.
Over 50 wild trout were captured and returned to Ballard Brook and the volunteers had a fun day on a wild brook trout stream. 
Welcome!
The Basil W. Woods, Jr. Chapter of Trout Unlimited is committed to the conservation, protection, and restoration of North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. We invite you to explore our website and participate in making Trout Unlimited’s mission an everyday reality.
What We Do
Please stop by our Projects and Activities page to learn about the annual youth and adult programs and other projects we support. For NH fly fishing information, please explore the Resources section and check out our current events.
We hope you will explore the Basil Woods, Jr. TU chapter website, and please send us any comments from our Contact Us page.
What We Love
We all love to fish but we also know that good fishing requires healthy ecosystems, which support coldwater fisheries. Through our fund raising efforts along with countless volunteer hours, our TU chapter supports numerous worthy programs and projects that help conserve our watersheds making it possible to wet a line and maybe come face-to-face with a beautiful native brook trout, a rambunctious rainbow trout, or a secretive brown trout. Thanks for stopping by!
How to Join TU
Go to: www.tu.org/intro and follow the prompts. There are several membership levels ranging from youth to seniors as well as life member. In the dropdown box choose Basil Woods Jr. #200 as your home chapter.