This blog highlights some of my travels and thoughts this summer regarding brook trout conservation and management in the eastern US.
Brook trout are an indicator species for environmental/watershed health. I am visiting all eastern states that have brook trout to document what efforts are being implemented to assure their future. I am also documenting the various human-driven threats to "brookies" that have resulted in the contraction of their range over the past 100 years.
See the above picture for a tanic/acid stream. The local Trout Unlimited chapter is paying for the lime (on the left) to be added so as to reduce stream acidity. See in the distance how tea colored the stream is.
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