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Youghiogheny Chapter

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Trout Unlimited # 335

 

The Youghiogheny Chapter of Trout Unlimited is located in Oakland, Md. and covers all of Garrett County. Our membership also includes people from West Virginia and Ohio.

Trout Unlimited's mission is to preserve and protect wild populations of cold water fish and their habitat and restore streams so that they can once again support fish.

 

PROJECTS

 

Help Protect the Brook Trout in the Savage River Drainage

The Youghiogheny Chapter of T.U. has developed a web site for information about the Eastern Brook Trout venture and other studies ongoing in Trout Unlimited. There is a online petition for you to sign to show support for the Savage Brook Trout. Please take a minute and sign the petition, it will help combat the threats to the regulations that are now in place. The web site is: www.savageriverbrooktrout.org

 

MUDDY CREEK PROJECT

The Muddy Creek project was started in 1999 to help restore this Youghiogheny tributary from the adverse affects of acid rain. Limestone fines were added in the fall through winter to raise the ph of the water after snow and or rainfall. In 2000 the Youghiogheny T.U. along with the Maryland DNR began stocking Brown trout in the section between Cranesville swamp and Swallow Falls State park. With the help of our scholarship recieptant the project is doing well with the insect populations and the trout both growing.

 

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Fly caught Brown from Muddy Creek               

 

 

 

 

SAVAGE RIVER CLEAN-UP

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Trash collected along Spring Lick and the Savage River below the dam on May 1st 2005. Pictured from left Oren Yoder, Harold Harsh, Johnny Lipscomb, Jeff McCauley, Ken Pavol, Eric Guthrie. Not pictured are Sull McCartney, Alan Klotz and Bobby Aldridge.

 

DONALD LIPSCOMB MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Every year the Youghiogheny chapter sponsor 1 student at Garrett College enrolled in the fisheries program with a $750.00 scholarship. In return the students run our Muddy Creek Project doing water quality test and limestone introduction. They also perform fish stockings and macroinverterbrate studies.

Past winners of the Lipscomb Scholarship

 

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Chad Messerly 2004-2005               Jarrod Vliet 2000-2001              Shane Hoover 2001-2002

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Melissa Williams 2003-2004           Terri Belasco 1999-2000          Salena Sampson 2002-2003

 

 

2005 BANQUET

Our 2005 Banquet held on April 29th at UNO's restaurant was a hugh success due to the great turn out and all the wonderful prizes. Special thanks to Gary Yoder for his carving of the Woodduck feather and to Bob Lancaster for his kind donation of one of his Bamboo Rods, and to Joe Messinger for his great print and picture of his father and his wonderful flies. We hope in 2 years to make this event bigger and better than this years.

 

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Top left: Ken Pavol receives Silver Trout Award in 2003, Edgar Harman receives Silver Trout award on behalf of Youghiogheny Watershed Association,  Bif, Brenda and Gary at the Banquet,  Ken, Eric and Dave

 

THE HAT

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Membership News

 

Meeting Minutes

March 15, 2006

Attending: Johnny Lipscomb Pres. Eric Guthrie V.P. Harold Harsh Sec. Jeff McCauley Tres. Bob Lancaster, Dana Shimrock, Sull McCartney, Oren Yoder, Ed Spurr, Alan Klotz DNR, Curtis O’Neal, Danny Teets, Larry Teets, Charlie Moore, Neil Jacobs, and Ken Pavol

Scheduling of Spring Dinner and Clean-up: The Spring Chapter rod dinner will be held on Friday April 21st at 7:00pm at the Sweetwater Grill at the Point View Inn upstairs. Hopefully we will have a report from our scholarship receipt ant on the Muddy Creek project. The Spring Clean-up will take place on April 23rd at 9:00am on the Savage River. Oren will take charge of getting food, trash bags and beverages.

Yough Watershed update: A: Hoyes Run, Working on Collins property grant money, bore hole grout project still on hold. B. Enlow project: fencing completed. C. Crellin project: Still waiting on WVA permit for grouting/Doser. That are worried about Iron in water and how discolored it will appear. D: Melissa O’Neal internship is extended for 1 year. ½ of her time will be spent on the Casselman drainage, and watershed grants. She is compiling data so it will be easier to get grant monies. Another summer intern will make a sign for the Cherry Creek doser, still looking for another intern. E: Spoke with Sam Thomas Nephew about putting up fence to keep cows out of the South Branch of Bear Creek.

Proposed Sewage Treatment plant on Ginseng Run: Ken Pavol represented Yough T.U. at this meeting, Henry Moomau is the engineer of project, says they don’t plan to use chlorine to treat waste The plant will service about 380 acres ,not sure how many houses at this time. We need to get base line info on stream before anything starts i.e.: water quality, macro invertebrates, fish, and water temps. Also who will oversee the plant after construction? Sull reported that these Brook trout are a different strain than others in the region. Eric Guthrie will work with Neil Jacobs and Ken Pavol on this.

Brook Trout Iniative: Neil Jacobs went to the first meeting; there were around 60 people there from everywhere in the state. Ray Morgan MDE spoke; this is a concerted effort to preserve the Brook Trout in MD. Broke down into 5 zones: Yough, Savage, Monocacy, Potomac Patuexant, and Gunpowder. First is to stabilize the Savage Brook Trout first. The feds, T.U., Bass Pro Shops putting up $5 million dollars for the Brook Trout, Next meeting is planned for May 5th .

Muddy Creek update: Lime has been introduced weekly by the student; due to lack of rain/snow it has to be shoveled in. ph is around mid 6’s and Alan said it will be stocked with Brown Trout this year.

Bathroom on Savage: we decided to install the port-a-john on April 15th and remove it on September 15th from now until the State installs a permanent one. Eric will work on a sign.

Johnny talked to 2 landowners who have Crabtree run going through their properties and they are will to do some kind of stream bank improvement. Hoping to find a few more to make to project cover more of the stream running through Swanton.

 

 

 

JOIN T.U.

To help in the struggle for clean water and a healthy fishery please join Trout Unlimited. The membership fee is tax deductible and you receive the Trout magazine free. www.tu.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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