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Supporters of Red Brook score big win on zoning vote in Massachusetts
There are wins. And there are landslide victories. Trout Unlimited and out allies are enjoying one of the latter, after the citizens of a small town near Cape Cod resoundingly defeated a proposed rezoning that would have allowed for massive development in the headwaters of Red Brook, a small, spring-fed stream where TU and our…
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Saving salters and saving New England
Brook trout in the Northeast have taken a beating over the decades. Scientists estimate that brook trout—indicators of clean water and healthy lands—have lost more than half of their historic habitat to development, dams and urbanization. The brook trout of southeastern Massachusetts are particularly vulnerable, and worthy of protection. There, a unique form of sea run brook trout, called “salters,” persists. The late…
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