Today I spent the day on a restored stream with Chris Shockey, a Trout Unlimited member and co-chair of the Back the Brookie program in West Virginia.
This stream was "dead" ten years ago due to acid rain or acid deposition. Its hard to imagine this beautiful tanic stream not having any life in it. But that's the way it was until Trout Unlimited began adding limestone to the head waters to reduce the acidity.
The stream today is alive with brookies! I am now heading to Maryland to check out there brookie efforts. My last day in West Virginia was great - sunshine, great scenery, and brookies.
West Virginia faces a lot of challenges regarding its natural resource uses and policies, but with people like the members of Trout Unlimited, the future is not all doom and gloom.
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