Volunteers Needed for DeHart Dam Day on October 1
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…
Photo: Andy Link
Diversion Well Workday Help Needed
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…
Keeping the Snitz Creek Intact
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…
The 2022 Dr. Frank Viozzi Memorial Scholarship for Environmental Studies
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…
From left: Senator Gebhard, Russ Collins, Attorney Horace Ehrgood, and Ed Stefanides.
Field Meeting with Senator Gebhard
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…
Fran Barilar, Stephan Vegoe, Joe Notarangelo, Bob Bauer, Rick Frazier, and Dennis Coffman.
Annual Clarks Valley Highway Cleanup
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…
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2021-22 Outstanding Volunteer Award Winner – Becca Fronk
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…
Day of Caring on Quittie Creek
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…
Brook Trout 103: For Their Future
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…
Data Collection on Hammer Creek Begins
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…
Brook Trout 103: For Their Future
We are moving on to Class 103 in our Brook Trout series! This "class" is all about what can, and is, being done to keep the populations of our State…
Brook Trout 102: Brookies Prefer
We continue to look into the "must-haves" checklist for an ideal brook trout habitat. As with most aquatic wildlife, increased pollution and decreased habitat range affect how well a brookie…