Saturday January 21, @ 3:30pm @ the West Tisbury Library, Michael Hopper from the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition will be giving a talk about dam removal projects and funding sources & grants for such projects. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Michael Hopper is the president of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition (www.searunbrookie.org), a nonprofit dedicated to improving habitat for native brook trout in the Northeast. His group has been involved with two restoration projects in Massachusetts; Red Brook in Wareham, and Eel River in Plymouth. He grew up in Wellfleet, reading Nelson Bryant’s "Outdoors" column in the New York Times, in particular, Nelson's essays about catching native brook trout in the Mill Brook. Hopper has worked as a commercial fisherman, but has now made stream restoration for sea run brook trout (also known as salters) his main work. His library presentation will focus on the Mill Brook, and its native fish population, possibilities for stream restoration at the site of the Mill Pond, and the funding opportunities for projects like these. He will have photos of the projects that they have worked on, and the results of those efforts.
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