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…
2022 Ladies Day Event Announced
The Doc Fritchey Chapter of Trout Unlimited is pleased to announce the 2022 Ladies Day Conservation and Fly Fishing Event. The program is open to a limited number of women…
Get DFTU Gear for Dad!
Pictured: Columbia Bahama II™ Short-Sleeve Shirt, in 5 colors Our DFTU Store has many options for Dad this Father's Day!
Hatches Spring 2022 Edition Now Online
The Spring 2022 edition of our newsletter – Hatches – has been mailed out to members. Visit our Hatches Newsletter page to view the current digital edition, as well as…
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…
Photo: Dylan Nolte on Unsplash
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…
2022 Wildwood Wetlands Festival
At the same time some of our members were helping clean up Quittie Creek Nature Park on April 23rd, another group of volunteers from Doc Fritchey (Chuck Swanderski, Steve Long,…
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…
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…