As the year comes to a close, now is the perfect time to make a tax-smart contribution that supports the Henry’s Fork Foundation’s vital conservation efforts. By taking advantage of strategic giving options, you can maximize your impact while also benefiting from potential tax savings. Whether you choose to donate appreciated stocks, make a qualified charitable distribution from your IRA, or contribute directly, your tax-smart year-end gift helps protect and sustain the Henry’s Fork and South Fork of the Snake River. Explore the best ways to give before the year ends and make a lasting difference for our fisheries and waterways.
Here are five often overlooked ways you can support our important work in addition to traditional gifts by check or credit card:
Donating appreciated securities, including stocks or mutual funds, is an easy and tax-effective way for you to make a gift to our organization.
HFF is a qualified 501c3 organization that is eligible to receive grants from your donor advised fund.
Join the exclusive community of those giving monthly. A little bit every month goes a long way and makes a big impact. For the same price as lunch, a couple of cups of coffee, or your online streaming subscription you can have a significant impact in supporting our mission. Set it and forget it. GIVE MONTHLY
If you are 70½ or older, you may also be interested in a way to lower the income and taxes from your IRA withdrawals. Avoid taxes on transfers of up to $105,000 from your IRA to our organization. It may also satisfy your required minimum distribution (RMD) for the year.
With gift planning, you can provide long‑lasting support for our organization while enjoying financial benefits for yourself. Let us help you tailor your legacy gift to your financial, tax or estate planning objectives. Visit HFFLegacy.org for more information.
As it is the afternoon of December 31, I am closing the year with my annual fish-of-the-month blog, this one at the end of my 11th year of catching a fish in my home waters in each month of the year. To spare you the math, that’s 132 consecutive months of catching a wild trout or whitefish (and in some years I’ve fair-caught suckers and shiners, too) within a three-hour drive of my home in
In this blog post, we 1) present our turbidity and suspended sediment data, 2) explain our suspended load calculations, and 3) provide some additional information justifying why we think that a substantial amount of bed load was transported into the Henry’s Fork in addition to the suspended load. Since first observing high turbidity in Thurmon Creek and the Henry’s Fork downstream associated with the Silver Lake drawdown in November 2025, HFF’s Science and Technology team
Written by Doris Squeri Tom and I met on our first day of grad school back in 1982. We were both broke and stressed, and we both loved the outdoors, so I decided that an affordable way to relieve some of that stress might be to learn how to fly-fish. We had learned to fish with our dads when we were very small, but it was bait fishing, and we wanted to try something new.
The Henry’s Fork Drought Management Planning Committee (DMPC) met on Monday, November 24 to set this winter’s outflow and reservoir-fill strategy for Island Park Reservoir—an annual decision with implications for winter trout habitat in Box Canyon and the Ranch. Winter Outflow: What’s Coming on December 1 Beginning December 1, outflow from Island Park Dam will increase, bringing winter streamflow through Box Canyon to ~380 cfs from December through February*. That equates to 76% of Box
