Trout Unlimited’s most recent film, “A Beautiful Mess” highlights a partnership with the US Forest Service to improve brook trout habitat in southern Appalachia. Natural woody materials, i.e. downed trees, provide great habitat for many trout species and those ever so important bugs and macroinvertebrates. So, it only makes sense that strategically felling trees in a stream can improve trout populations!
Modern timber practices have largely taken over the symbiotic connection with forests and streams. So throughout TU’s Priority Watersheds and in close partnership with the USFS, restoration crews are jumpstarting that natural process by firing up the chainsaws, dropping natural woody debris, and building prime habitat.
This work also has the added benefit of building climate resilience by providing some buffer from flooding events. Check out this great work today!
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Spread Creek, A Trout Unlimited Film and Restoration Project in Jackson, Wyoming
