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The Founding:
The Olympic Peninsula
Guides' Association was founded in 1967. The
rules and bylaws were approved by the membership
at a meeting held at the (infamous) Vagabond
Cafe on March 11, 1967.
Our objectives:
The group is organized to aid
in conservation, restoration, and management of
fish and wildlife on the Olympic Peninsula. We
also work to standardize guiding fees, to
cooperate with the Washington Department of Fish
and Wildlife, to promote better relationships
with other sportsmen, to establish a code of
ethics between ourselves and bank anglers, and
to work in getting better observation of fish
and wildlife laws. The group intends to be
non-political and is also not-for-profit.
Our Efforts:
Perhaps our most visible
effort to the general public can be seen along
the banks of the upper Sol Duc River in the form
of rearing facility at Snider Creek. For more
information about this project, please visit our
Snider Creek page.
We hold regular meetings to
discuss and plan action regarding past, current,
and future issues regarding the fish and
wildlife of the Olympic Peninsula.
We send representatives from
the group to attend state regulatory meetings
and also often issue our observations /
recommendations as a unified voice of the
Olympic Peninsula guiding community to local,
state, and Tribal officials as needed.
The group is also involved in
clean-up efforts around the area and also helps
to fight for access rights for sportsmen, both
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