Today I met with Ken Undercoffer and Jack Williams in Clearfield, Penn. Both are leaders in Trout Unlimited's Pennsylvania brook trout restoration efforts. Both have been a great help from the beginning of this project. I contacted Ken a couple of years ago about brookies in Pennsylvania and he has been a great help ever since.
Here in central Pennsylvania the factors impacting brookies are pretty similar to those in West Virginia - acid rain and acid mine drainage. We visited a stream today that is targeted for mitigation through the addition of limestone to its headwaters.
Pennsylvania is an interesting place because there are still thousands of miles of brookie streams, but in most streams the brookies are small and relegated to headwater streams or streams too acidic for brown trout. Because there remains a lot of brookies out there, with proper management, Pennsylvania can again contain some truly special brookie waters. More on the management later.
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