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Photo 7 of Aaron Run, Maryland
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Photo 7 of Aaron Run, Maryland
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Restoring Brook Trout to Aaron Run, Maryland
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Lynn Camp Prong, Tennessee
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One of the top stressors to thriving brook trout populations is their inability to successfully compete for food and space with other, non-native (exotic) trout species such as brown and rainbow trout and warm water species such as small mouth bass. Balancing the needs of multiple fish user groups presents a unique set of challenges in developing strategies to address declines in brook trout populations due to competition from these species. Steve Moore, Fishery Biologist for the National Park Service is leading a partnership to eliminate non-native trout species from Lynn Camp Prong in the Great Smoky Mountains State Park. This effort focuses on the use of chemical means to eliminate rainbow trout from the stream. A natural barrier at the lower end of Lynn Camp Prong will exclude rainbow trout from stream. Approximately 8 miles of stream will be restored allowing brook trout to re-inhabit the stream without the challenge of competing trout species.
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Fact Sheet for Lynn Camp Prong, Tennessee
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Fact sheet for Lynn Camp Prong, Tennessee
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Lynn Camp Prong, Tennessee
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Chop and Drop in the Sunday River, Maine
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Brook trout habitat in the Sunday River drainage has been degraded by poor land use practices, including
timber harvesting, log driving, farming, and commercial and recreational development. Much of the river
and its tributaries are unstable, over-widened, and lacking in deep pools, thereby reducing nursery and
adult brook trout habitat. Although degradation is being addressed through a comprehensive watershed survey and main-stem restoration effort, the causal problem of accelerated runoff has not been addressed. This proposal will assess the efficacy of adding woody debris to reduce peak flows, create pools, and trap organics to enrich depauperate headwater streams.
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Tributary to Sunday River, Maine
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Treatment Site #1, an Unnamed tributary to the Sunday River, Maine
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Chop and Drop in the Sunday River, Maine
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Control Site for Sunday River, Maine
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Control Site on an unnamed tributary in the Sunday River, Maine.
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Chop and Drop in the Sunday River, Maine
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South Sandy Creek Restoration, Williams Run, Pennsylvania
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The partnership will restore Williams Run so that it can support life, with lime treatments in the short term and by constructing a limestone bed system to passively treat acid mine drainage for the long term. Tributaries flowing into Williams Run currently support healthy populations of wild brook trout. This project will allow currently isolated populations of native brook trout to return to the main stem of Williams Run, connecting them and expanding their range. These water quality improvements on private property will benefit stream habitat downstream on State Forest Lands. The landowners have committed to allowing public fishing in this area greatly expanding the brook trout fishing opportunities in western Pennsylvania.
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Cross Fork Stream Stabilization, Kettle Creek, Pennsylvania
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A remarkable potential exists for the successful improvement of habitat to benefit native brook trout populations within Cross Fork through the support of private and public landowners. Immediate habitat improvements can be obtained by means of low impact, habitat enhancement techniques proposed for the project. These include hand placement of log vanes, rootwads, log cross vanes, and mudsills throughout the project reach not only providing habitat, but also assisting the stream in stabilization over time (5-10years). When complete the project will enhance approximately 3.5 miles of habitat impaired stream.
Cross Fork does support a resident population of native brook trout that began showing a decrease in population in the last 6-10 years. This is attributed to the loss of quality adult trout habitat and spawning areas as noted by the PA Fish and Boat Commission reports. Recently, due to the decline in trout populations the PA Fish and Boat Commission, has changed the regulation of the stream to a stock trout fishery. It is hoped that habitat restoration efforts will return the population back to self-sustaining.
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Project Fact Sheet for Cross Fork, Pennsylvania
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Project fact sheet for Cross Fork, Pennsylvania
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Cross Fork Stream Stabilization, Kettle Creek, Pennsylvania
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Kettle Creek, Pennsylvania
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Photo of Indian Run showing the riffle / run dominant habitat and lack of adult brook trout habitat.
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Cross Fork Stream Stabilization, Kettle Creek, Pennsylvania