Thank You Penns Creek TU Chapter 119 AND Lost Creek Trout Club

 

Penns Creek TU donated T-shirts to my first grade class. They truly are wonderful sponsors!

It will be hard to convince the students to release fingerlings next year after releasing these beauties! Thanks for saving the day Lost Creek Trout Club...

May 13, 2017 Trout Release at Lost Creek

What an awesome day we had at the Lost Creek Golf Course and stream releasing the trout donated by Lost Creek Trout Club! Thanks goes to our wonderful community for making this day happen for the students of Lack Tuscarora Elementary School and Juniata High School...my heart is full!


This was our ninth trout release participating in Trout in the Classroom through our sponsors Penns Creek Trout Unlimited. They have been a wonderful group to work with over the years and have had a tremendous impact on the streams of Mifflin and Juniata Counties. This program would not exist today in our school without this group of anglers!


 Thank you parents and students of Lack Tuscarora Elementary for braving the weather which held out better than expected and for embracing our efforts! I greatly appreciate the help and support of Mrs. Jessica Morgan and the students of Juniata High School who taught a valuable lesson on stream conservation and assisted Penns Creek Trout Unlimited with our release, fly-casting, and macro-invertebrate study. Shout-outs to Michelle Lauver from Cocolamus Creek Disposal for our lesson on recycling and Mr. Lucas Book for his lesson on the importance of trees to the health of a stream.


 It is my hope that the students will realize the precious natural and human resources we have in our community and that they will be inspired to protect them for the future. A final word of thanks to the members of Juniata Watershed Alliance  and the Juniata Conservation District for their vision to make stream conservation a priority for our community beginning with the efforts at the Lost Creek Golf Course. Here are a few pictures of the day...

  these smiles....

are the reason I love this program!

and a link to a video...

https://youtu.be/Yaeav5OBL-c

If this looks like fun to you... Juniata Watershed Alliance would love to have you be a part of our efforts to enact our vision for Lost Creek providing for our students authentic opportunities for stream conservation within our community. Please feel free to reach out to us through our Facebook page to see how you can be a part of local efforts.


https://www.facebook.com/pg/juniatawatershedalliance/posts/

Our Vision Statement:

We envision a healthy and beautiful stream that enhances and reflects the spirit of our rural community and its carefully stewarded landscape.

May 2, 2017

May 2 is usually an exciting day for me as it is my son's birthday. However, last Tuesday, May 2, was a disheartening day at Lack Tuscarora Elementary. We had 119 beautiful fish as you can see from the pictures below in other posts but a 2 hour power outage on Tuesday was more than they could endure...we lost the entire tank of Brook Trout.


We had a burial for them on Wednesday in our school garden and then I began frantically trying to find a way to make sunshine from our rainy day...Thankfully Lost Creek Trout Club has come to our rescue providing adult trout for our students to put in the stream on our release day which is scheduled to be this Saturday, May 13. What a whirlwind of emotions the last week has been. I am thankful for the willingness of Lost Creek Trout Club to come to our rescue. I am always amazed at how our community rallies together to make this event a success...

   We have moved our event this year to the Lost Creek Golf Course to highlight real-life conservation efforts in our community brought about by our newly formed watershed group Juniata Watershed Alliance of which I am the President. I believe our students this year had a first hand lesson on how fragile the balance of life can be.

    On a positive note...we will have our book on display! Hoping that we get all the rain out of our system this week and praying for a sunny day next Saturday! Check back to see some pictures from the day!

Final Countdown!

With only 11 days left until...

our trout release at Lost Creek Golf Course on

Saturday, May 13, 2017 ....

we are all getting so excited to take our trout to the stream.

Today for nearly 2 hours...we went without power at our school due to high winds...thankfully, power was restored quickly and everything worked out fine! Hoping for no more power outages...it will be a huge relief to put our trout in the stream...we have worked so hard to keep them all healthy and alive!