In order to understand what other species of fish could be in Cold Spring Brook within Cold Spring Park, NFC toured the next downstream segement of stream…
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As we expected, Laundry Brook has a higher level of fish biodiversity than the other streams we have surveyed in Newton…
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What NFC has learned from our Newton streams projects, is that no matter how badly degraded a stream is, American eels are using it…
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As is unfortunately often the case, NHFG is placing a higher value on fishing than they are fish…
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The exception is American eels which while previously undetected are present in Hammond Brook and in good numbers…
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NH NFC chair Aliess John recently took a ride up to Lake Sunapee to check on the signs. All four signs have been posted…
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MA NFC needed to get creative to fill in the holes. This required climbing some fences and lowering a ladder to reach the water…
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The goal of the e-fishing surveys is to monitor wild native brook trout genetic diversity, abundance, and age distribution over a period of years to assess the effectiveness of the habitat work..
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Species at the extreme edges of their native range are more likely to be stressed by changes in weather patterns than other populations…
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Members of NFC, MassWildlife, Newton Conservators, and volunteers met to capture wild native fish from Bullough’s Pond to be released in the headwaters of Laundry Brook…
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As soon as the signs are posted we will start collecting data…
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Friends of Cold Spring Park, one of our partners on our Cold Spring Brook in Newton, Massachusetts, project recently added a first ever section on fish to the wildlife page on their website…
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After a very successful webinar sponsored by Newton Conservators that featured NFC’s work on suburban and urban streams in Newton, Massachusetts, the story was picked up by The Heights…
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While NFC has looked at a lot of different things in regard to overall stream health, the focus of the presentation was on fish…
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The goal was to understand what species of fish could and could not live in the stream…
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New Hampshire gets first endangered sturgeon informational signs as part of a multi-state project…
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Pennsylvania NFC hopes these signs bring more awareness to the presence of the wild native brook trout and interest in protecting them…
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While most of what NFC does with regard to informational signage spotlight species and life history strategy presence, it is equally as important to spotlight the loss of such…
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In total, these two eels had to travel more than 100 miles to get to where they were captured…
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The project was more about proof-of-concept than actual impact as you cannot remove what took years to accumulate in just a few hours of manual work…
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