By Matthias Bonzo Last year TU began to implement a project we’re calling “Trout and Trees.” Funded by a grant from the USDA State and Private Forestry – Landscape Scale Restoration Initiative, the project seeks to improve near stream (riparian) habitats coupled with instream habitat work to provide as complete restoration to a degraded site as possible. Work sites are carefully selected and must show a need for both areas of restoration. The riparian restoration is usually planting native trees, shrubs and grasses, often in areas when landowners mow up to the edge of the river...
