Please register here for the Campus County Connection Presentation on December 11, 2025. The topic area for December 11 is Fly Fishing as Gateway to Fisheries Extension: Tales of Campus-County Connections. If you are attending in person, the location is Mann library, room 102. If you are attending in zoom, we will send a link closer to the event date. 

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"Fly Fishing as Gateway to Fisheries Extension: Tales of Campus-County Connections." Thursday, December 11 | 12:00–1:00 PM - This session spotlights the powerful potential of fly fishing and cold-water fisheries as an entry point for environmental education and climate change outreach. You’ll hear from Linda Brosch, 4-H Team Coordinator and Natural Resources Educator with CCE Oswego County, who has become a trusted collaborator for Keith Tidball, CCE’s Critical Issue Leader for Natural Resources and the Environment and Assistant Director for CCE Natural Resources. Through a mix of story-sharing and science, this webinar will explore how trout—and the people who love to fish for them—offer a gateway into deeper conversations about climate, ecology, and community resilience. Keith will share recent research on climate change and coldwater fisheries in New York’s Adirondacks and Catskills, while Linda will reflect on her on-the-ground work—revising curriculum, leading camps and workshops, and building local networks with partners like Trout Unlimited and local Sportsmen’s Federations. Together, they illustrate how Cooperative Extension can reconnect campus expertise and community engagement in meaningful, place-based ways. As CALS and Cornell Cooperative Extension strive to extend the resources of the university, this session offers an inspiring example of how education can be embedded into existing interests—like fly fishing—to expand impact and reach new audiences. Whether you're a natural resources educator, 4-H educator, campus staff member, or simply curious about how passion for the outdoors can fuel public engagement, we invite you to come, listen, learn, and connect. This program can also be adapted to afterschool programs and day or residential camps. Bring your lunch, your curiosity, and your questions!