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Save the Fraser River
Kirk Klancke led Trout Unlimited's local chapter for five years. With such national support, he raised the funds for the Eisenhower statue, as well as for a music festival celebrating the river and for the construction of a sediment basin. Local development and road traffic was causing eroded sediment to flow into the shallow river, killing the insects trout consume. The new basin keeps the runoff from strangling the life that can still be found in the river, and collects that sediment for a gravel company that uses it in road base.