Near the site of future stream restoration work at the Wittlinger Nature Preserve in South Middleton Township are, from left, Jeb Betar of Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited; Stephanie Rider of Gleim Environmental Group; Don Albright of CVTU; Cory Adams, township manager of South Middleton; John Gleim of Gleim Environmental; and Tyler Neimond of Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.
Work by volunteers with the Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited to repair a section of the Yellow Breeches near Boiling Springs has received a $7,000 boost, thanks to a grant through Trout Unlimited’s national Embrace A Stream grant program.
Phase III of restoration of a stream section to its natural state after a dam was removed near Wittlinger Nature Preserve years ago is to begin in August and be completed by early next December.
“These funds will allow us to continue to do more great work restoring and improving Yellow Breeches Creek thanks to this Embrace A Stream grant,” said John Leonhard, chapter president. “With this grant, we will engage the volunteers from our chapter and many more through collaboration with local community organizations, to work on a river we all know and love as residents and anglers.”
Embrace A Stream is a matching grant program administered by Trout Unlimited and awards funds to local chapters and councils for coldwater fisheries conservation. Since its inception in 1975, the grant program has funded more than 1,100 projects for a total of $4.75 million in direct cash grants. Local chapters and councils contributed an additional $14 million in cash and in-kind services to Embrace A Stream funded projects, for a total investment of more than $19 million.
“We’re thrilled to support the Cumberland Valley TU Chapter in its efforts to improve such an important local trout stream,” said Russ Meyer, chair of the Embrace A Stream grants committee, a group of Trout Unlimited volunteer leaders from across the country. “This year’s grant applications were extremely competitive, but the proposal for the Yellow Breeches stood out in our committee.”
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