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GBTU organizes monthly first-Saturday workdays at Red Brook, located on the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations' Theodore Lyman Reserve, near East Wareham, MA.
Red Brook is a freshwater stream that flows directly into the ocean at Buttermilk Bay. It is home to one of the last remaining native sea-run brook trout (known as "salters") fisheries in the eastern United States.
Red Brook restoration originally required extensive hands-on efforts to remove trees, branches, and tree limbs obstructing the stream, install large logs to provide shelter to resident salters, and some rechanneling. There is always clean up and maintenance work to be done at the end of each winter season.
As the project has evolved, help is also needed to monitor the salters' movements into and out of the stream at different times of year. This feat is accomplished thanks to the electronic tagging of salters in the stream.
Activities at Red Brook are overseen by members of the Southeastern Massachusetts TU Chapter, with continuing volunteer and financial support from GBTU.
If you would like to be involved in any aspect of this project, please contact:
GBTU's president by e-mail at mrpresident@gbtu.org.
For more information on this reserve, visit: http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/pages/330_lyman_reserve.cfm