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  • River recovery is 'tremendous news'
    The Lock Haven Express
    By Elizabeth Regan
    November 2, 2011
    Trout Unlimited has released its West Branch Susquehanna Recovery Benchmark Project findings and the results show a tremendous improvement in the water quality, fleshing out in more brook trout and insect life in the West Branch in many places that...
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  • Trout population increasing on Middle Branch
    The Lock Haven Express
    By Elizabeth Regan
    November 2, 2011
    They electrofish Middle Branch's entire stream length (about one mile) once a year. Last year, they only found four trout; the year before, they'd found none. By the end of the mile this year, Dunlap stood sweating, but beaming. They'd caught 26...
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  • Event will celebrate river recovery efforts
    The Lock Haven Express
    November 2, 2011
    Trout Unlimited is hosting the West Branch Susquehanna Recovery Benchmark Celebration at 11a.m. at the state park off Route 120 in western Clinton County, featuring among its guests John Arway, executive director of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat...
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  • Celebrating 25 years of recovery in the West Branch
    The Lock Haven Express
    By Elizabeth Regan
    November 2, 2011
    The West Branch of the Susquehanna River is far healthier than it had been 25 years ago, showing vast improvements in the fish and insect life, thanks to TU and its partners' efforts, according to its West Branch Susquehanna Recovery Benchmark...
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  • Trout Unlimited a valuable steward for water quality
    Lock Haven Express (PA)
    October 5, 2011
    For Trout Unlimited, most of its passion is about water quality. We love its missions statement: To conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. No doubt Trout Unlimited is doing a lot of work to restore...
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  • Shocking Trout to Protect Them
    The New York Times Green Blog
    By Deborah Weisberg
    September 21, 2011
    Pennsylvania fishery biologists are wrapping up the second year of a major effort to explore wild trout streams they have never before assessed, in areas increasingly vulnerable to impacts from development.
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  • Can the Bay Bank Help Save Family Farms?
    Ecosystem Marketplace
    By Hannah Kett
    August 5, 2011
    “The thinking of most farmers is that they want to leave the land better than they found it,” says Mike Rudolph, a rancher from West Virginia.  “They are conservation-minded to begin with, and that is kind of a commonsense practice that you...
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  • Brook Trout Anglers Sought to Survey Remote Ponds
    Lewiston Sun Journal
    By Terry Karkos
    June 9, 2011
    Volunteers are being sought to head into the wilds of Maine to find and fish for previously-undocumented populations of wild brook trout in remote ponds. Maine Audubon is partnering on the project with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and...
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  • Couple to help families plant for the future at Yellow Springs Elementary
    Frederick News-Post
    By Karen Gardner
    April 22, 2011
    John and Tricia Smucker will help 45 families plant for the future at Yellow Springs Elementary School on April 30. John Smucker, a watershed expert and middle school teacher, his wife, Tricia, a first-grade teacher at Yellow Springs, and Potomac...
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  • GOP budget cuts bad for TN waterways, wildlife
    Tennessean
    By John Torchick
    April 10, 2011
    This year, a cloud hangs over the future of Tennessee's fishing and hunting. A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year, H.R. 1, went far beyond its initial purpose and...
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  • At Conservation District banquet health of area waterways tops discussion
    The Progress
    By Wendy B. Lynn
    March 25, 2011
    Rebecca Dunlap, manager of the Eastern Abandoned Mine Program for Trout Unlimited, was the keynote speaker for the annual Clearfield County Conservation District banquet.
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  • Conservancy: State forests at risk
    Sun Gazette
    By DAVID THOMPSON
    February 17, 2011
    With 10 million acres of public and private land leased for natural gas development in Pennsylvania, it is imperative to protect the remaining tracts of state forest land that has not been leased, Nels Johnson, of the Nature Conservancy's Harrisburg...
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