Chesapeake Bay Day on Capitol Hill
Our own past President, Russ Collins, will be joining the Choose Clean Water Coalition for Chesapeake Bay Day on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 1, 2023! A productive day of meetings are lined up…
Our own past President, Russ Collins, will be joining the Choose Clean Water Coalition for Chesapeake Bay Day on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 1, 2023! A productive day of meetings are lined up…
Once again, our online Winter Auction has proven to be a great success! With over 30 items, all donated by local angler shops, guides, other businesses, and artists, there was…
Capital Region Water (CRW), operator of the DeHart Dam on Clarks Creek, has scheduled a trash pickup along a section of Clarks Valley Road (S.R. 325) followed by a tour…
The Diversion Well Crew is beginning to organize for its annual maintenance work project. Planned work will include moving creek rocks and shoveling out silt in the dam. Volunteers should…
The rain stayed at bay so that fifteen volunteers from the Doc Fritchey Chapter of Trout Unlimited (DFTU) could plant more than thirty tree saplings along the east bank of…
This year’s Dr. Frank Viozzi Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Brock Troutman, a senior at Upper Dauphin High School who lives in Lykens and plans to attend Mansfield University…
On May 11th, I had the opportunity to meet at a site on Snitz Creek with two property owners who would like to have a stream restoration project done on their stream…
On what can only be described as “a perfect spring morning,” six volunteers from the Doc Fritchey Chapter conducted our annual highway cleanup on Clarks Valley Road – along the…
The 2021-22 Gerald L. Miller Outstanding Volunteer Award has been presented to chapter member Becca Fronk. Becca has always been an advocate for the conservation of natural resources and clean water. She became…
As part of the annual Lebanon County United Way’s Day of Caring, seven Doc Fritchey members showed up to clean up an impressive “mess of downed trees” on the Quittapahilla…
Celebrating National Volunteer Week with another Brook Trout educational post! This one explains one of DFTU's conservation efforts - the Rausch Creek Diversion Wells (Rausch Creek is an abandoned coal…
Following on the heels of a previous blog post featuring Hammer Creek, our chapter received word from several folks interested in helping with our stream restoration efforts. We received six offers…