JACKSON HOLE WOMAN, Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 19
FISHING
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the old crusty dudes anymore,” Stephens said jokingly while on a break from electrofishing Flat Creek in late September. “That was always the reaction that I got.” Some segments of the Jackson Hole fishing scene remain maledominated. Female fishing guides, for one, are hard to come by. Grand Fishing Adventures teacher and guide Jean Bruun is one exception. A longtime Colorado guide, Bruun’s been leading anglers to ply waters here for more than a decade and is involved with conservation groups like the Snake River Fund and Trout Unlimited. Two Trout Unlimited staff members call Jackson Hole home, and incidentally both are women. Valley resident Beverly Smith is the nationwide nonprofit’s vice president for volunteer operations and Leslie Steen stepped into a new role as TU’s Snake River Headwaters project manager this spring. Overseeing the organization’s local chapter is a board that’s well stocked with women, with Barb Allen, JuliAnne Forrest, Marley Vaughn and Kathleen Doffermyre all donating their time to help keep Jackson Hole’s lake, stream and river fisheries in tip-top shape. Showing up recently at Trout Unlimited’s Western Regional Conference, Steen said she couldn’t help but notice that there were a lot of “older white guys with white hair.” “What I’ve learned that’s unique about our local chapter is that the board has been somewhere around half women,” Steen said. “Most of us are in the 30s and 40s, which is also different.” The women-dominated structure has in one instance been a boon for fundraising, too.
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Trout Unlimited’s Leslie Steen, seen here during a watershed survey in August at the Upper Gros Ventre River Ranch, is one of two female TU staff members in the valley.
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Steen recalled the auctioning of a private trip this summer to fish private sections of the Green and New Fork rivers. The winning bid was be guided by four local women of Trout Unlimited, and a group of women won out. “Apparently, it was really, really fun,” Steen said. “They keep running into each other around town and they’ve been trying to get out fishing together again.” Contact Mike Koshmrl at 732-7067 or environmental@jhnewsandguide.com.
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