one accomplishment I managed to pull off recently was to facilitate a native brook trout restoration project in the Hemlock Lake (one of the Little Finger Lakes) watershed. The project removed an old dam & spillway and replaced it with a more natural stream channel that will allow them to access two miles of headwaters that was blocked to them before. Wow... Nature Conservancy, Fish & Wildlfife Service and the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation managed to work together and get it done. Now the land will be turned over to the parks dept. and become public land.

Two ways to destroy trout habitat... erosion into the stream to destroy spawong beds +----------------------------------and remove all the canopy vegetation... warm water = dead trout.