On November 6, 2010, Mass Division of Ecological Restoration’s Beth Lambert presented to concerned citizens of West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. Beth’s presentation discusses what MA DER does and how it helps dam owners and townspeople consider river restoration options. Beth was invited to come speak in West Tisbury, as the town is currently involved…
Continue reading →Doug Swesty, former president of the Art Flick Chapter of TU has been named Long Island Watershed Director to help SRBTC work on issues pertaining to restoring sea-run brook trout on Long Island, New York. Long Island, once well known for sea-run brook trout, contains over a dozen rivers, all with varying needs of attention….
Continue reading →Thanks to Prudy Burt, the SRBTC was invited to speak at the West Tisbury Library about the possibility of restoring a sea-run brook trout stream on Martha’s Vineyard. The town of West Tisbury is currently engaged in a discussion about whether to dredge the Mill Pond in the center of town, or to remove the…
Continue reading →Here you can view some recent Powerpoint presentations made by Coalition members and partners. Presented to Greater Boston TU in January, 2015: https://www.slideshare.net/SRBTroutCoalition/srbtc-presentation-to-gbtu-boston-ma-jan-2015 UMass Department of Environmental Conservation scientist Andy Danylchuk presented “Movement patterns of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) inhabiting a restored coastal stream in Massachusetts: preliminary evidence of anadromy” in 2011. https://www.slideshare.net/SRBTroutCoalition/danylchuk-et-al-salters-red-brook SRBTC founders…
Continue reading →I want to introduce to to a great new website that goes into more detail about the restoration project at Red Brook. Redbrook.org was designed by volunteer Christophe Perez and contains writings by SRBTC founder Warren Winders in the days before and during the foundation of SRBTC. Warren is the former Red Brook Director for…
Continue reading →Printed originally in Orvis News, Sept 30, 2011 Last month, at the American Fisheries Society meeting in Seattle, I sat down with Dr. Andy Danylchuk, assistant professor of fish conservation in the department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Andy is one of those professors with his hands in a lot of…
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