The Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited is receiving the 2005 Silver Trout Award, the second-highest conservation award presented by the national Trout Unlimited organization, for the chapter’s work to preserve and protect high quality streams in central Pennsylvania.

In 2001, Cumberland Valley won the Volunteer Conservation Award from TU for its Rivers Conservation and Flyfishing Youth Camp Project.

The Cumberland Valley Chapter undertook a number of project funded by the Growing Greener Watershed Restoration Program including $100,00 in 2003-2004 for the Shady Lane Project and $35,000 in 2004-2005 for the Capuano Reach Project, both on the Letort Spring Run in Cumberland County, and $17,000 in 2004-2005 for mapping and permitting work on Big Spring, also in Cumberland County.

In Letort Spring Run, CVTU used the funding to map, stabilize, and return sections of the Run to their pre-agricultural state, with indigenous plantings and in stream fish cover. Big Spring in the Newville area has been mapped and surveyed, with design work to reverse the negative effects of a now closed hatchery to begin this fall.

For more information on its award-winning activities, visit the Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited website.

9/16/2005