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To counteract this
potentially harmful outcome
of Lee on the trout population,
Lycoming College’s own Clean
Water Institute (CWI) went
to work placing fish habitat
structures along streams and
creeks throughout Lycoming
County, such as Elk Creek.
CWI intern Dom Novella
’17 took the lead in organizing
the institute’s involvement in a
county-wide restoration
project by training other
Lycoming interns in fish
counting techniques and
setting up monitoring
schedules. He also helped a
crew of volunteers stabilize the
banks near structures placed
LEADERSHIP
on
n 2011, Tropical Storm Lee wreaked havoc along the
Atlantic coast — historic flooding caused hundreds
of millions of dollars in damage to residential
areas in Pennsylvania alone. But the storm didn’t stop
there: Natural fish habitats along many of the rivers,
creeks and tributaries across the state were wiped out,
including those in the hard-hit Loyalsock watershed
area. Without the habitats, trout would have nowhere to
lay eggs or find shelter, which could have a devastating
effect on their population.
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