Join MDIFW Native Fish Conservation Biologist Merry Gallagher to learn how wood addition in small headwater streams helps improve brook trout habitat by: ✔Providing cover (places for trout to hide from predators!) ✔Creating a variety of habitat types, especially deep-water areas ✔Fostering opportunities for leaf litter to collect, which is ultimately food for the insect communities that are already there. Trout eat these aquatic insects! ✔Helping keep the water as cold as possible If you are a p

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is assisting Plum Creek in the brook trout habitat restoration of Intervale Brook, an important tributary of First Roach Pond in Frenchtown Twp. Intervale Brook bears the scars of a long history of log driving. Streams like Intervale where straightened, boulders and trees were removed, and banks were heightened in order to ease log driving. Despite excellent water quality, the loss of brook trout habitat in this stream has negatively impacted