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New review of genetic rescue
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Is now the time? Shannon White, Jacob Rash, and David Kazyak review the application of genetic rescue to brook trout conservation.
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News Inbox
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Small Grant Program now open
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2023 Small grant program for outreach and education.
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News Inbox
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Native Brook Trout Restoration
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Video: NCWRC biologists spend the day restoring native Brook Trout to headwaters in Haywood County.
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Videos
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Smith Creek Restoration Project
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A twelve minute video on the Smith Creek restoration happening in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Brook Trout Video and Webinar Gallery
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Photograph of Patten Stream Facing Upstream in Winter
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This photograph shows Patten Stream during the winter. The area is located below the Surry Road bridge.
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Unfunded Applications from 2014
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EBTJV/NFHAP/NFPP Patten Stream Fish Passage Construction, Surry, ME
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Patten Stream Photo Facing Upstream During Spring
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Photograph showing Patten Stream and a temporary fish ladder that was constructed. The Project is to construct a permanent rock weir. The engineering work for this construction is well underway and is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
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Unfunded Applications from 2014
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EBTJV/NFHAP/NFPP Patten Stream Fish Passage Construction, Surry, ME
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Using genetic data to advance stream fish reintroduction science: a case study in brook trout
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This study demonstrates the utility of genetic and demographic data for reintroduction efforts, particularly when extant populations are genetically depauperate and maintaining adaptive potential is a primary restoration goal. How- ever, we emphasize the value of continued monitoring at longer temporal and spatial scales to determine the effects of stochastic process on the long-term adaptive capacity and persistence of reintroduced populations. Overall, inclusion of genetic data in reintroduction efforts offers increased ability to meet project goals while simultaneously conserving critical sources of adaptive variation that exist across the landscape.
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Science and Data
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Brook Trout Related Publications
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Restoration of brook trout across their native range using fish toxicants and electrofishing: are we successful ecologically and socially?
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PDF of PowerPoint presentation by Matt Kulp, fishery biologist with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and coauthors, reviewing historic and contemporary restoration efforts to restore brook trout using toxicants and electrofishing. Matt surveyed state and agency biologists about projects to remove invasive species and replace brook trout. This presentation and associated database describe the outcomes and factors in success and failures.
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Brook Trout Related Publications
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Wood placement in river restoration: fact, fiction, and future direction
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Despite decades of research on wood in rivers, the addition of wood as a river restoration technique remains controversial. We reviewed the literature on natural and placed wood to shed light on areas of continued debate. Research on river ecology demonstrates that large woody debris has always been a natural part of most rivers systems. Although a few studies have reported high structural failure rates (>50%) of placed instream wood structures, most studies have shown relatively low failure rates (<20%) and that placed wood remains stable for several years, though long-term evaluations of placed wood are rare. The vast majority of studies on wood placement have reported improvements in physical habitat (e.g., increased pool frequency, cover, habitat diversity). Studies that have not reported improvements in physical habitat often found that watershed processes (e.g., sediment, hydrology, water quality) had not been addressed. Finally, most evaluations of fish response to wood placement have shown positive responses for salmonids, though few studies have looked at long-term watershed-scale responses or studied a wide range of species.
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Brook Trout Related Publications
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Anthony Creek & Little Cataloochee Creek Restoration, TN/NC_FY17 Project
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In Anthony Creek and Cataloochee Creek, non-native Rainbow Trout were removed from 2.8 km (1.75 mi) and 6.4 km (4.0 mi) stretches of stream, respectively; native Brook Trout were collected from streams within Great Smoky Mountains National Park and release them into both creeks; and, Brook Trout populations were monitored in during subsequent years to determine success of this project.
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Project Completion Reports