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EBTJV Reports
- Eastern Brook Trout Roadmap to Conservation (2018)
- Conserving the Eastern Brook Trout-Action Strategies_January 2018
- An Overview of Brook Trout Conservation Projects Supported by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Fish Habitat Action Plan Funds, 2006-2018
- EBTJV Salmonid Catchment Assessment and Habitat Patch Layers
- EBTJV Conservation Strategy (2011)
- EBTJV Roadmap to Restoration (2008)
- Eastern Brook Trout: Status and Threats (2006)
- Status and Threats Fact Sheets
- EBTJV Print Material
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- Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
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Project Completion Reports
- Smith Creek Headwaters Restoration, VA_FY06 Project
- Big Run Restoration, WV_FY06 Project
- Cooper Creek Restoration, GA_FY06 Project
- Browns River Watershed, VT_FY06 Project
- Habitat Restoration in Chattahoochee National Forest Streams, GA_FY07 Project
- Lynn Camp Prong Restoration, TN_FY07 Project
- Sunday River "Chop and Drop", ME_FY07 Project
- Whitethorn Creek Habitat Restoration, WV_FY07 Project
- Williams Run Acid Mine Drainage Mitigation, PA_FY07 Project
- Enhancing Connectivity in the Androscoggin River Watershed, ME_FY08 Project
- Rehabilitation of an Unnamed Stream, ME_FY08 Project
- Assessing the Efficacy of Remediating Episodic Low pH (and High Aluminum) Concentrations in Headwater Brook Trout Streams with Clam Shell Additions_FY09 Project
- Tipton Creek Culvert Replacement, NC_FY10 Project
- Restoring Connectivity in the West Branch Machias River, ME_FY10 Project
- Willow Creek Restoration, PA_FY10 Project
- Carloe Brook Fish Passage Restoration, ME_FY11 Project
- Lynn Camp Prong Brook Trout Restoration, TN_FY11 Project
- Restoring habitat connectivity in Machias and Saint Croix River tributary streams, ME_FY11 Project
- Enhancing Connectivity in the West Branch Narraguagus River, ME_FY11 Project
- Big Wadleigh Pond Restoration, ME_FY12 Project
- Jam Black Brook Culvert Replacement, ME_FY12 Project
- Removal of Two Dams in the Wetmore Run Watershed, PA_FY12 Project
- Dam Removals on an Unnamed Tributary to Frankstown Branch, PA_FY13 Project
- Scott Brook Fish Passage Restoration, ME_FY13 Project
- Aquatic Habitat Connectivity in the Upper White River Watershed, VT_FY13 Project
- Mill Creek “Chop and Drop”, WV_FY14 Project
- Little Cards Brook Culvert Replacement, ME_FY16 Project
- Anthony Creek & Little Cataloochee Creek Restoration, TN/NC_FY17 Project
- Dam Removal on the East Branch of the Passumpsic River, VT_FY17 Project
- Culvert Replacement in the West Musquash Tributary. ME_FY18 Project
- Bowman Creek, PA
- Wolf Den Run Final Report 2021
- Friends of Winooski River completion report 2022
- Peterson Pond Dam Removal completion report 11/24/2020
- Federal infrastructure funding
- Science and Data
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Data and Brook Trout Decision Support Tools
- Interactive GIS map featuring occupancy data layers (link to Ecosheds)
- TU Eastern Brook Trout Conservation Portfolio, Range-wide Assessment and Focal Area Tools
- Interactive Catchment Explorer
- Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool
- Brook Trout Thermal Habitat Forecasts Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland & Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
- North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative
- EBTJV Maps
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Aquatic Organism Passage I&A and state design guidelines
- Modified Culvert Inventory and Assessment Protocol
- Chesapeake Fish Passage Prioritization: An Assessment of Dams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
- Northeast Aquatic Connectivity: An Assessment of Dams on Northeastern Rivers.
- SEACAP: Southeast Aquatic Connectivity Assessment Project: Assessing the ecological impact of dams on Southeastern rivers.
- State Sream Crossing Guidelines
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Brook Trout Related Publications
- Distribution, Status, and Land Use Characteristics of Subwatersheds within the Native Range of Brook Trout in the Eastern United States
- Assessment and predictive model for brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) population status in the eastern United States
- Estimating size-specific brook trout abundance in continuously sampled headwater streams using Bayesian mixed models with zero inflation and overdispersion
- Predicting Brook Trout Occurrence in Stream Reaches throughout their Native Range in the Eastern United States
- The Importance of Scale: Assessing and Predicting Brook Trout Status in its Southern Native Range
- Dynamics and regulation of the southern brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) population in an Appalachian stream
- Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population
- Population regulation of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Hunt Creek, Michigan: a 50-year study
- What predicts the use by brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) of terrestrial invertebrate subsidies in headwater streams?
- Geomorphic, Flood, and Groundwater-Flow Characteristics of Bayfield Peninsula Streams, Wisconsin, and Implications for Brook-Trout Habitat
- Acid Mine Drainage and Effects on Fish Health and Ecology: A Review
- Response of fish assemblages to declining acidic deposition in Adirondack Mountain lakes, 1984-2012
- Broad-Scale Patterns of Brook Trout Responses to Introduced Brown Trout in New York
- Evaluating the Trade-Offs between Invasion and Isolation for Native Brook Trout and Nonnative Brown Trout in Pennsylvania Streams
- Impacts of Exotic Rainbow Trout on Habitat Use by Native Juvenile Salmonid Species at an Early Invasive Stage
- Conservation Genetics of Remnant Coastal Brook Trout Populations at the Southern Limit of Their Distribution: Population Structure and Effects of Stocking
- The influence of land cover composition and groundwater on thermal habitat availability for brook trout populations
- Individual behaviour and resource use of thermally stressed brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis portend the conservation potential of thermal refugia
- Linking movement and reproductive history of brook trout to assess habitat connectivity in a heterogeneous stream network
- Brook Trout Movement in Response to Temperature, Flow, and Thermal Refugia within a Complex Appalachian Riverscape
- Fall and Early Winter Movement and Habitat Use of Wild Brook Trout
- The temperature–productivity squeeze: constraints on brook trout growth along an Appalachian river continuum
- A regional neural network ensemble for predicting mean daily river water temperature
- Quantifying the effect of semi-natural riparian cover on stream temperatures: implications for salmonid habitat management
- Efficacy of Environmental DNA to Detect and Quantify Brook Trout Populations in Headwater Streams of the Adirondack Mountains, New York
- Understanding environmental DNA detection probabilities: A case study using a stream-dwelling char Salvelinus fontinalis
- A Protocol for Collecting Environmental DNA Samples From Streams
- Environmental DNA Sampling Informs Fish Eradication Efforts: Case Studies and Lessons Learned
- An Economic Analysis of Improved Road‐Stream Crossings
- Technical Guide for Field Practitioners: Understanding and Monitoring Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings
- Northeast Aquatic Connectivity - An Assessment of Dams on Northeastern Rivers
- Chesapeake Fish Passage Prioritization: An Assessment of Dams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- SEACAP: Southeast Aquatic Connectivity Assessment Project: Assessing the ecological impact of dams on Southeastern rivers
- Evaluating the Barrier Assessment Technique Derived from FishXing Software and the Upstream Movement of Brook Trout through Road Culverts
- Modified Culvert Inventory and Assessment Protocol
- Is motivation important to brook trout passage through culverts?
- Evaluation of Wild Brook Trout Populations in Vermont Streams
- Evaluation of Catch-and-Release Regulations on Brook Trout in Pennsylvania Streams
- Movement Patterns of Brook Trout in a Restored Coastal Stream System in Southern Massachusetts
- Metabolic rates of embryos and alevin from a cold-adapted salmonid differ with temperature, population and family of origin: implications for coping with climate change
- Probabilistic measures of climate change vulnerability, adaptation action benefits, and related uncertainty from maximum temperature metric selection
- Stream Assessment and Monitoring
- Brook Trout Genetics Research
- Chesapeake Bay Brook Trout Management Strategy-References
- A new species of Myxobolus (Myxozoa: Bivalvulida) infecting the medulla oblongata and nerve cord of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis in southern Appalachia (New River, NC, USA)
- An updated geographic distribution of Myxobolus cerebralis (Hofer, 1903) (Bivalvulida: Myxobolidae) and the first diagnosed case of whirling disease in wild-caught trout in the south-eastern United States
- Wood placement in river restoration: fact, fiction, and future direction
- Population genetics of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the southern Appalachian Mountains
- Conservation and the Genetics of Populations 2nd Edition
- Restoration of brook trout across their native range using fish toxicants and electrofishing: are we successful ecologically and socially?
- Development of Genetic Baseline Information to Support the Conservation and Management of Wild Brook Trout in North Carolina
- Landscape and stocking effects on population genetics of TN brook trout
- Ranking Site Vulnerability to Increasing Temperatures in Southern Appalachian Brook Trout Streams in Virginia: An Exposure - Sensitivity Approach
- Sensitivity and Vulnerability of Brook Trout Populations to Climate Change
- Fragmentation and Patch Size Shape Genetic Structure of Brook Trout Populations
- Can brook trout survive climate change in large rivers? If it rains - Merriam et al. 2017
- SENSITIVITY AND VULNERABILITY OF BROOK TROUT POPULATIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Conservation planning at the intersection of landscape and climate change: brook trout in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
- Climate change influence on brook trout populations in the Central Appalachians - Andrew et al. 2022
- Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers
- Using genetic data to advance stream fish reintroduction science: a case study in brook trout
- Seasonal streamflow extremes are key drivers of Brook Trout young-of-the-year abundance
- Elevated summer temperatures delay spawning reduce redd construction for resident brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
- Symposium Proceedings
- Chesapeake Bay Program
- Whitewater to Bluewater W2B
- Brook Trout Genetics
- Brook trout restoration: non-native species removal and brook trout reintroduction
- Brook Trout Climate Resilience Research
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Data and Brook Trout Decision Support Tools
- The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
- Maryland conservation funding and technical assistance
- Pennsylvania conservation funding and technical assistance
- PADEP Video: Guidelines for Maintaining Streams in Your Community
- Cattle don't grow in streams
- South Carolina Conservation Districts
- Connecticut conservation funding and technical assistance
- South Carolina Stream Bank Repair Manual
- Georgia Region 1 Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- Georgia conservation funding and technical assistance
- South Carolina conservation funding and technical assistance
- Rhode Island conservation funding and technical assistance
- NRCS Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
- NRCS EQIP Program
- Massachusetts conservation funding and technical assistance
- Appalachian Stewardship Foundation Grants
- West Virginia conservation funding and technical assistance
- Virginia conservation funding and technical assistance
- Northcentral Pennsylvania Stream Partnership
- Vermont Landowner Resources
- clean waters brochure
- Brook trout clean water brochure
- NH Fish and Game Small Grants
- New Hampshire conservation funding and technical assistance
- Great Lakes Small Funding
- New York conservation funding and technical assistance
- Riparian Buffers for Private Lands - PA links to funding
- Saving Healthy Lands - Potomac Conservancy
- Brook trout healthy waters brochure
- Find Your Niche
- Brook trout basics
- Regional Brook Trout Threats
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Brook Trout Video and Webinar Gallery
- Bringing Back the Brooks - a Revival of the South's Trout
- Native Brook Trout Restoration, Haywood County North Carolina
- Cantrell Creek Habitat Improvement
- West Virginia Brook Trout
- Brook Trout Conservation in WV
- Fisheries - Responding to Drought and Water Challenges
- The use of environmental (eDNA) to inform fish eradication efforts to restore native aquatic species.
- Wild Brook Trout Restoration in Passage Creek, Virginia
- TU EBT importance
- Scicomm webinar: development of a genetic baseline for brook trout in North Carolina
- Restoring Wild Brook Trout to Passage Creek, VA
- From the Field: Linking Land and Water in Brook Trout Conservation from Chesapeake Bay Program
- Smith Creek Restoration Project
- From the Field: Tagged brook trout reveal the pristine health of Maryland’s Savage River
- Wild Brook Trout Image Gallery
- Are brook trout near me?
- Eastern US map of wild brook trout patches
- Agency management plans and maps (states, tribes, federal)
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