{"id":812,"date":"2013-07-03T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-07-03T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:11:26","slug":"the-decline-of-southern-appalachian-brook-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of Southern Appalachian Brook Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/picture13b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-813\" alt=\"picture13b1\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/picture13b1.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>The Southern Appalachian Brook Trout Foundation and there website <a title=\"Brook Trout Happenings\" href=\"http:\/\/brooktrouthatchery.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Brook Trout Happenings)<\/a>, Has a three part series on the decline of the Southern Appalachian Brook Trout from the 1880 to present.\u00a0\u00a0 <a title=\"Brook Trout \u2013 1880\u2032s Though 1940\u2032s Part I.\" href=\"http:\/\/brooktrouthatchery.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/25\/the-decline-of-southern-appalachian-brook-trout-1880s-though-1940s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part I<\/a>\u00a0 cover the time from 1880 to the 1940s. &#8221; In the 1880\u2032s beginning at around 1600 feet in elevation Southern Appalachian brook trout would have occupied most of the upper elevation\u00a02nd, and 3rd order tributaries. In\u00a0primary river watersheds&#8221; \u00a0 <a title=\"Brook Trout \u2013 1950\u2032s Though 1970\u2032s Part II.\" href=\"http:\/\/brooktrouthatchery.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/26\/the-decline-of-southern-appalachian-brook-trout-%E2%80%93-1950%E2%80%B2s-though-1970%E2%80%B2s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part II<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 1950\u2032s Though 1970\u2032s.\u00a0 &#8220;After\u00a0 private logging operations had depleted most of the marketable timber in the Southern Appalachians\u00a0by the\u00a0early 1900\u2032s, had hundreds of thousands of acres of\u00a0lands that few wanted.&#8221; \u00a0<a title=\"Brook Trout \u2013 1970\u2032s And To The Present Part III.\" href=\"http:\/\/brooktrouthatchery.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/27\/the-decline-of-southern-appalachian-brook-trout-%E2%80%93-1950%E2%80%B2s-though-1970%E2%80%B2s-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part III<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 1970\u2032s And To The Present. &#8220;During this period Southern Appalachian brook trout population distribution continued to decline and much of this range reduction took place in the species last stronghold \u2013 the upper headwaters of watersheds&#8221;.\u00a0 Please take time to read all three articles.\u00a0 The website does a really good job of explaining the decline Southern Appalachian brook trout and has other articles on the restoration work in the Tellico area.\u00a0 Make sure to take time read about there ongoing work to restore Brook Trout in Sycamore Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Good Fishing<\/p>\n<p>Joe\u00a0 &lt;((((&lt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Appalachian Brook Trout Foundation and there website (Brook Trout Happenings), Has a three part series on the decline of the Southern Appalachian Brook Trout from the 1880 to present.\u00a0\u00a0 Part I\u00a0 cover the time from 1880 to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}