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News from
Shenandoah
National Park
Shenandoah National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright announced recently that, weather permitting, the National Park Service will initiate several prescribed bums in Shenandoah National Park this year. Due to the uncertainty of the weather, it is not possible to predict the exact dates.
Prescribed fires are fires ignited on purpose by managers under a pre-determined set of conditions, called a prescription, in order to accomplish specific resource management objectives. The prescription includes weather, fuel moisture, and resource availability parameters. Shenandoah National
Park implements
Special Brown
Trout Regulations
Superintendent Chas Cartwright has announced that special regulations for brown trout are being implemented as a control measure for thesenonnative (exotic) trout within sections of the Rose River, Hughes River and Brokenback Run in Shenandoah National Park. According to Superintendent Cartwright, this change is needed to afford greater protection to the native brook trout that inhabit many of the park streams.
Specifically, the size limit for brown trout caught and retained in creels within park sections of these three streams has been reduced from nine to seven inches. The current nine inch minimum for all brook trout captured remains in effect for all stream sections and the current nine inch minimum for brown trout remains in effect downstream of the park.
Additionally, the release of any captured brown trout, regardless of size, back into any park stream is prohibited.
Since the early 1960s when brown trout were first introduced into waters adjacent to Shenandoah National Park, these hatchery raised trout unexpectedly transitioned into
See SHENANDOAH, Page B9
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