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Trout Unlimited Council Adds Two New Staff To Lead PA Marcellus Shale Efforts
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Trout Unlimited is teaming up with the Pennsylvania Council of TU to focus attention and efforts on concerns related to gas development in the Marcellus Shale region.
Two new TU staff members will work in coordination with Deb Nardone, Coldwater Heritage Program Administrator and Pennsylvania Council of TU staff, to identify impacts from gas drilling and to seek protections for Pennsylvania’s trout fisheries and its watersheds.
TU has hired David Sewak as the new field organizer for its Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Project. With the Pennsylvania Council, David will be developing and implementing a volunteer surveillance/water quality monitoring training program for TU volunteers and members of other sportsmen/women groups.
The trainings will cover basic gas extraction information, water sampling, and identify priority areas for coldwater monitoring activities. Once trained, the volunteers will act as watchdogs throughout the Marcellus Shale region for both gas drilling impacts and violations of state laws.
David will also be working with partner organizations across the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania to identify and protect ecologically sensitive lands and waters from the impacts of gas drilling.
To get involved in the PATU Coldwater Conservation Corps initiative, find out about upcoming trainings in your region, or to schedule a time for David to give your chapter a presentation on Marcellus Shale, please contact him by sending email to: dsewak@tu.org or call 814-659-1772.
Katy Dunlap, TU’s new Eastern Water Project Director, will be working at the state level to develop new or change existing in-stream flow policies in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, as well as organizing TU members and local communities around a host of water management issues including those related to Marcellus Shale.
Using gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale as a driver in New York and Pennsylvania, Katy will be developing and proposing water withdrawal legislation and regulations to protect in-stream flows as well as working on wastewater disposal impacts of gas drilling.
She will be working closely with David and Deb to identify water quality and water quantity impacts from gas extraction on Pennsylvania’s trout fisheries and its habitat. In addition to her work on Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, Katy will also be organizing TU members and other sportsmen and women in New York around the issue.
If you have questions or concerns related to in-stream flows or Marcellus water withdrawals and wastewater disposal, please contact Katy by sending email to: kdunlap@tu.org or call 607-742- 3331.
David and Katy join four additional TU staff working in Pennsylvania. Amy Wolfe, TU’s Eastern Abandoned Mine Director, and her team including Becky Dunlap, Rachel Kester, and Shawn Rummel are focused on the conservation, protection, and restoration of coldwater fisheries and their watersheds that have been impacted by historic coal mining throughout the Appalachian region.
Shawn is the newest addition to TU’s Eastern Abandoned Mine team. Shawn recently received his PhD in Ecology from Penn State University, with a focus on the ecology of wild trout populations, and will begin his position as Field and Research Coordinator on September 20.
Rebecca Holler, a full-time AmeriCorps-VISTA volunteer, also works with TU's Eastern Abandoned Mine Program. Amy and her staff are based in Lock Haven, PA and can be reached at 570-748-4901.
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9/20/2010 |
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