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	I have been affiliated with Au Sable for several years now.&nbsp; My first Au Sable experience came as a research student during the summer of 2013.&nbsp; During this time I was fortunate to work as a member of the Boardman River research team.&nbsp; Growing up near Traverse City and being an avid fisherman, I was well acquainted with this stream and I thought I knew most of what there was to know about the quality of it&rsquo;s water, the debate surrounding the removal of its dams, and particularly the location of many of its trout. But through my research that summer something new was revealed to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; Questions that I hadn&rsquo;t thought to ask before became obvious.&nbsp; In all my time growing up around the Boardman, I felt as though the Boardman and I were just being introduced.</p>
