PA Environment Digest Blog: Trout Unlimited Releases 'Angling For Hope - A Vision For PA's Beech Creek' A Short Film On Efforts To Treat Abandoned Mine Drainage, Bring Back Aquatic Life In This Centre, Clinton County Watershed

On August 8, Amy Wolfe, Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program Director, announced the lease of a new short film by Brian Cooper called Angling For Hope - A Vision For PA's Beech Creek.

"A little over a year ago, with our partners, we relaunched the abandoned mine remediation effort for the Beech Creek watershed in Centre and Clinton counties working in collaboration and with support from our Trout Unlimited volunteers, landowners, Centre and Clinton County Conservation Districts, DCNR Bureau of Forestry, and many other individuals and partner organizations and agencies," said Wolfe.

"We are looking forward to replicating the tremendous restoration success achieved in the Babb Creek watershed, Twomile Run in lower Kettle Creek watershed, Potts Run, Tangascootack Creek, and other models of acid mine drainage cleanup success."

"The AMD pollution throughout the watershed is already proving to be some of the most complex we’ve come across so far, but we’re up to the challenge because the end result will be incredible for coldwater habitat and native brook trout!" said Wolf.

Click Here to read a wonderful article by Mark Taylor about the watershed and restoration efforts.

Click Here to watch the short film.

Contact Amy Wolfe at Trout Unlimited to learn more about TU's Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program.

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