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  • Students Go Fishing
    Martinsburg Journal
    By Megan Fisher
    June 8, 2011
    Wildwood Middle School students in Carolyn Thomas' seventh-grade science class experienced a unique lesson Tuesday. Science students and the Environmental Club of Wildwood Middle have participated in numerous projects, including restoration projects...
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  • Students Release Trout into Holston River Middle Fork
    Southwest Virginia Today
    By Stephanie Porter-Nichols
    June 7, 2011
    As Trout Unlimited’s Mountain Empire Chapter President Dr. Eric Sacknoff looked on, Paul York helped Marion Intermediate School students release small trout they raised in the classroom into the Holston River Middle Fork near Holston Hills Country...
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  • EES’ Trout in the Classroom Project Reaches Its End
    The Valley Banner
    By Ted Hayes
    June 2, 2011
    Last Friday was a great day for Elkton Elementary School fourth graders in Ben Markel's Trout Club. For the previous four months, 30 fourth graders had been raising trout minnows in a 55-gallon aquarium, cleaning the water, testing its temperature...
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  • City Trout Land in Rural Waters
    Lewisboro Ledger
    By Emma Wisdom
    June 2, 2011
    If you’ve caught a trout at the Cross River Reservoir, there’s a good chance it was born and raised in a New York City classroom.  It all started around 10 years ago when Trout Unlimited, a national non-profit organization devoted to conserving...
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  • Releasing Trout: Poage’s Project Eventually Could Be a Boost for Anglers
    The Independent
    June 2, 2011
    The streams of northeastern Kentucky are not known for their bountiful trout fishing, but some fifth-graders at Ashland’s Poage Elementary School are doing their part to change that. On Friday, the next-to-the-last day of school for the year in...
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  • Passaic High School Students Raise Trout and Awareness of Cold Water Conservation
    Star Ledger
    By Andre Malok
    May 25, 2011
    Students from Passaic High School spent seven months raising brook trout in their classrooms. The fish, now measuring around three inches, were ready for release into the Musconetcong River at Stevens State Park in Hackettstown. The science-based...
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  • Salmon in the Classroom Program Continues to Grow
    Upper Michigan’s Source
    By Natalie Jovonoich
    May 11, 2011
    Sixth grade students at Negaunee Middle School recently took 158 salmon from their classroom to the Carp River in Marquette.  They've been a part of the whole cycle of life, since the beginning. “Every morning, we would change the water and...
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  • A Different Kind of Classroom Gives Unique Learning Experience
    The Mining Journal
    By Kyle Whitney
    May 10, 2011
    Area students have been releasing hundreds of salmon into local rivers recently, thanks to a Michigan Department of Natural Resources program sponsored locally by Trout Unlimited. Fifth- and sixth-grade students from Negaunee, Marquette, Gwinn, Eben...
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  • Gladstone Students Release 165 Salmon into River
    Daily Press
    By Dionna Harris
    May 9, 2011
    Sixth-grade students in Andrew Doutree and Lisa Thomas' science class at Gladstone Middle School completed the final stage of their science project Friday, releasing approximately 165 salmon into the Escanaba River. Following the release, the...
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  • ‘Pretty Sweet’: Students Rear Salmon Fry
    Midland Daily News
    By Steve Griffin
    May 8, 2011
    Nobody can say for certain how many chinook salmon are swimming in the Chippewa River, nor the Tittabawassee River into which it flows. What is certain is that that number grew by about 70 on Wednesday. And that more will join them in the next week...
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  • Trailblazers Students Release Trout into Rippowam River
    Connecticut Post
    By Maggie Gordon
    May 6, 2011
    Middle school students from Stamford's Trailblazers Academy  stood at the edge of the Rippowam River, braving rain and gloomy gray weather to finish a months-long science lesson by releasing a school of fish into the water. The students began...
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  • Something’s Fishy! “Trout Lady” Pursues Environmental Grant
    The Brooklyn Paper
    By Aaron Short
    May 5, 2011
    A Brooklyn trout lover is angling for some of the $1 million left over from a Newtown Creek pollution settlement to teach Greenpoint children how fish grow — and then how to catch them.  Lilith Genovesi, affectionately known by her colleagues...
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  • Local Students Release Trout into State Park Stream
    WXII 12
    May 2, 2011
    Students from three Triad schools released 37 trout into a stream at Stone Mountain State Park on Monday.  The fish were released as part of a program sponsored by the Blue Ridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a group that promotes protection of...
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  • Trout Grown by JRHS Students Released
    Roanoke.com
    May 2, 2011
    Richard Fuhrman’s forestry and wildlife class at JRHS grew trout in the classroom as part of the Trout Unlimited project that has been a big hit through out the area. Before Spring Break, his class and Dan Bowser’s senior level PE class took a field...
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  • Winnetka Students Bid Farewell to Adopted Fish
    Winnetka Talk
    By Kimberly Fornek
    April 28, 2011
    They were treated so well, you almost thought they would not want to leave. But leave they did. All 139 young trout swam bravely into Lake Michigan from Tower Road Beach in Winnetka, where fourth-graders from Hubbard Woods School sent them off with...
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