Lincoln Hills

Lincoln Hills

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
With over 45,000 soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade, some families and communities are struggling to cope with the severe injuries sustained overseas by our brave servicemen and women. Thank God there are people like Ethan Emery, Executive Director of Lincoln Hills Cares in Colorado: "Our Anglers of Honor program has some extensive history back to the year 2000 when we began volunteering some of our guide staff to go and attend various fishing outings with veteran groups, people coming back from some of the stuff that was taking place in the Middle East as well as with some hospitals and we were volunteering our expert guide staff to go and assist them with some of their fishing operations and fishing outings. As time went on, we realized it was something that we wanted to be more involved with, make it our own, now we host all of the trips at Lincoln Hills and Boulder of the Ranch through Lincoln Hills Cares which is our nonprofit branch and because of that work we have been able to design our fishery around that clientele. We have wheelchair accessible fishing ponds and stretches of the river, we have wheelchair accessible facilities, restrooms, decks for dining, etc. We work a lot with soldiers coming back with traumatic brain injuries as well as PTSD and a lot of the research that is coming out now about recreational therapy and especially group-based nature events is overwhelmingly positive in terms of their recovery. So we are glad to be able to give back in a way that is special to us having a passion for the outdoors and particularly, flyfishing.
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