Welcome to Trout Unlimited's podcast where we will talk about fishing, rivers, and conservation.

Everything that's related to TU's mission of conserving, protecting, and restoring North America's trout and salmon fisheries in the watersheds they depend on.

I'm Chris Wood, the President and CEO of Trout Unlimited, and today we'll get a behind

the scenes look at how TU works with members of Congress to protect rivers and fish.

I'll talk with Steve Moyer,

to use Vice President for Government Affairs.

Thanks for coming in today, Steve.

You're very welcome.

It's great to be here.

So Steve, you've been with TU since its founding in the 50s, is that right?

Yes, actually I was here at a farm team, a AAA farm team before TU was founded and

it moved up in 1959 when the major league team came into existence.

Seriously, when did you get to you?

1992 is when I came in late in 1992.

So I've been here about 18 years now.

You know it's it's interesting.

When I talked to members of Congress,

I have actually had several of them say to me,

when you bring up your members and your people

who were voters in our districts in our states,

you know, we really have to pay attention to those guys what do we do in terms

of bringing up members to testify before Congress? Our greatest strength is

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