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Central Valley Farm gets dairy cows out of Musky tributary
TU volunteers from our New York City chapter along with their family members including several high school students came out Saturday, November 5th to Asbury, NJ on a local dairy farm to help fence cows out of the stream and to plant native trees and shrubs within the new cattle exclosure to buffer this tributary. [...]
More...2nd Annual NJ Fly Fisherman of the Year & NJTU 40th Banquet
[ November 12, 2011; 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] New Jersey Trout Unlimited Celebrates 40th Anniversary
More...Healthy Rivers Article in Daily Record by TU’s Brian Cowden
I BELIEVE: ‘Rivers are truly awesome features of our natural world, but they demand our proper respect’
Photo credit: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer
Daily Record
Thursday, September 15, 2011
By Brian Cowden – Trout Unlimited’s Musconetcong Home Rivers Initiative Coordinator
Last week, I spent an afternoon photographing the Flatbrook River in New Jersey’s northwest corner during a flood event. It was [...]
Three Remnant Dams Removed on Lower Musky
Upper Wood Timber Crib dam dated to the late 1800s
The Musky recently saw three (3) remnant dams removed on the lower river between the Finesville dam and the Delaware River. This project was spearheaded by our partners at the Musconetcong Watershed Association who received grants for approximately $55,000 for the removal work. TU [...]
Trenton Times Article on Musconetcong HRI
Mighty Musconetcong: ever-changing, still vital
Published: Friday, August 05, 2011
J.B. Kasper/For The Times By J.B. Kasper/For The Times
The Musconetcong River is, if not the top, one of the top trout streams in the Garden State. From its headwaters at Lake Hopatcong to its confluence with the Delaware River at Riegelsville, its water supplies some of [...]
2nd annual Coldwater Conservation School a huge success!
NJTU just completed its second annual Coldwater Conservation School with our partners from NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife. From Thursday, June 23rd – Sunday the 26th, nearly 30 students ages 11-14 attended camp at the NJ School for Conservation in Stokes State Forest. Our campers learned about the aquatic food chain, how [...]
More...Annual Musky clean up today
The weather was lousy, pure and simple. Although that factor kept away some volunteers, those hearty souls that did show managed to remove as much trash from the river and its banks as other years. TU chapter volunteers from around the state descended on the Musconetcong watershed to help our partner, the Musconetcong [...]
More...TU and NJ Fish & Wildlife announce 2nd Annual Coldwater Conservation School
TU and NJ F&W have announced dates for our 2nd annual Coldwater Conservation School for kids ages 11-14. Once again this year, the School will be held at the NJ School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest along the banks of the Big Flatbrook River from June 23 – 26.
The kids will get hands [...]
Saving Mason’s Run
September 2007
by: Brian Burns – Ray Neirle TU Chapter member
As hard as it is to believe in this age of urban sprawl, traffic jams, and vanishing wildlife habitat, a tiny free-flowing, spring-fed stream still provides the necessary habitat for south Jersey’s last remaining wild brook trout population.
Mason’s Run is located in the borough of Pine [...]
Brook Trout study on upper South Branch Raritan
Submitted by Brian Cowden – TU Eastern Conservation staff member
Recently I was fortunate enough to help electro fish the South Branch of the Raritan River in Mount Olive near its upper headwaters. This work, part of the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture, is critical to understanding the impacts of development, the impacts of non-native [...]
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