Pennsylvania: Blueprint for Building Partnerships and Recommendations for Scaling Brook Trout Restoration in Stronghold and Persistent Patches

May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025


This workshop will convene in-person on Thursday, May 29th, 2025 at location in County, PA. The first day of this workshop will convene in Maryland on June 3rd.

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) will host two separate one-day workshops for the purpose of strategizing implementation of priority best management practices to successfully recolonize, recover or repatriate brook trout populations. This workshop will convene experts from Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Teams and Workgroups, conservation organizations, regional coordinators, funding program administrators, and other relevant organizations in Baltimore, Carroll, and Garrett Counties in Maryland (May/June 2025) and Potter and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania (May/June 2025). Workshop participants will identify and synthesize the science needed, and local considerations and needs, to develop an actionable large-scale restoration plan to increase brook trout occupancy, abundance and resiliency within and among stronghold and/or persistent patches in priority geographies.

Workshop Steering Committee:
*STAC Member

  • Dan Goetz, MD DNR, Co-Chair
  • Katie Ombalski, Woods and Waters Consulting, Co-Chair
  • Kevin Brittingham, Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability
  • Katie Brownson, US Forest Service
  • Josh Glace, Larson Design Group
  • Ben Harris, Trout Unlimited
  • Gina Hunt, MD DNR
  • Scott Knoche*, Morgan State PEARL
  • Lori Maloney, Canaan Valley Institute
  • Mitch Masser, Carroll County Bureau of Resource Management
  • Bruce Michael, Garrett County Department of Community Development
  • Laura Cattell Noll, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
  • Molly Ramsey, Garrett County Department of Community Development
  • Shawn Rummel, Trout Unlimited
  • Nick Staten, CRC
  • Kelly Williams, Clearfield County Conservation District
  • Amy Wolfe, Trout Unlimited

 

This page will be updated with workshop details.

If you have any questions, please contact Meg Cole, STAC Coordinator, at colem@chesapeake.org.