Yankee Fork Side Channel Habitat Improvement

Yankee Fork Side Channel Habitat Improvement

Goals TU’s goal in the Yankee Fork basin was to create side-channel rearing habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon and steelhead trout and spawning habitat for adult steelhead.  Improved habitat will also benefit cutthroat trout and bull trout. Tactics TU and partners re-graded mounds of dredge tailings to fill remnant dredge ponds and create a functional

Upper Delaware Watershed Home Rivers Initiative

The Upper Delaware Watershed is home to many of New Jersey’s best trout fishing waters, including the Musconetcong River. Here TU has removed barriers to aquatic organism passage and strategically restored over 6 miles of habitat in degraded areas to increase available habitat, food, and water quality for trout, especially native brook trout. The success