KENNEBEC JOURNAL • April 1, 2020
I became a lobbyist when I started working for the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine in 1991. One of the bills I am most proud of protected our native brook trout in their lakes and ponds. Maine has all the native brook trout left in our country, so this is a very precious and important resource. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife actually opposed our bill, but the Legislature enacted it and the governor signed it into law. I was very pleased last year when, thanks to the leadership of the department’s commissioner, Judy Camuso, the department extended that protection to the tributaries of those brook trout lakes and ponds. ~ George Smith