Social Hour & Board Meeting: guest speaker Bryan Ferguson, NMDOW – All members welcome

Our September board meeting has a guest.

Bryan Ferguson, Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Biologist with the New Mexico Department of Wildlife (NMDOW), speaks on Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Conservation and Management in New Mexico. Second-floor events room at Hervé Wine Bar, Wednesday, September 9. Social hour from 5:00, Bryan from 5:30 to 6:00, board meeting at 6:00.

Bryan Ferguson has worked in fisheries with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish since 2015 and has served as the Department’s Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout biologist since 2022, focusing on RGCT conservation, management, and restoration throughout New Mexico.

He is covering four things: where Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout stand in New Mexico, the cutthroat populations of the Pecos watershed, the Pecos restoration projects underway now, and the Pecos strain broodstock.

That Pecos half is why the board fixed this date. The upper Pecos is the second most popular trout fishery in New Mexico, better than a million angler days a year, and twelve conservation populations of Rio Grande Cutthroat are left in the whole basin. Our 2026-2031 Strategic Plan commits us to making the case that the Upper Pecos should be a Trout Unlimited priority water by 2027. We are building that case now, and this is the science behind it.

Members and their guests both, so bring the fishing partner who cares about this watershed.

The details:

• Wednesday, September 9, 2026
• Hervé Wine Bar, second-floor events room, 139 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe
• Social hour 5:00, Bryan speaks 5:30 to 6:00, board meeting 6:00
• Members and their guests
• Dinner afterward for anyone who can stay

Please let us know you are coming so we can set out enough chairs. RSVP below.

See you upstairs on the ninth.

The Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited