Eastern Conservation

Amy Wolfe, director of Trout Unlimited's Eastern Abandoned Mine Program, and Scott Koser, watershed specialist for the Clinton County Conservation District, highlighted the successes and initiatives at Thursday's meeting of the county commissioners.

ABOUT THREE dozen trout swimming in the Connecticut River are going to provide more than good fishing for anglers at the top of the state, they’re going to give biologists a view of their migratory patterns.

After more than decade of work by Trout Unlimited to repair damage from highly acidic, abandoned coal mine drainage in the lower Kettle Creek watershed, native brook trout have returned to a once-dead section of Middle Branch, a tributary to Twomile Run in northwestern Clinton County.

The long anticipated and sought after release of water from the Quemahoning Reservoir has begun. No, not the whitewater release, the conservation release.

Thousands of gallons of cold, clear water ebbs from a deep spring hole
not far from the Pinecroft exit of Interstate 99. I think about the
steep drop-off into the blue depths beside which I am standing, and my
brain wisely suggests that I move a half-step back from the edge.

Fracking got you down? Take heart -- TU is on the job.

Wilton's aquatic wildlife will have a cleaner Norwalk River to call home thanks to the efforts of a group of local volunteers.

Nevada could finally make some money off the dozens of giant solar arrays and wind farms planned for its deserts and mountain peaks if legislation introduced this week by Rep. Dean Heller and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid passes.

The company that pioneered Marcellus Shale exploration announced Wednesday that it was voluntarily disclosing the chemicals used to hydraulically fracture its natural gas wells, in an effort to defuse criticism about the process.