“The selection of a site for a new farm was always based, in part, on the availability of a good supply of clean, cold water. ‘I’ve got a good, bold spring,’ is a sentence we have heard a hundred times, and it is always said with pride and satisfaction.” – Fox Fire, book no. 4.… Continue reading Fixing an old Springhouse. Water problems, water solutions.
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Spawning Brook Trout & Ed Hewitt’s Better Trout Streams (1931)
“It has been determined from these studies that streams under seven feet in width are more than twice as rich as wider streams over seven feet in width.” – Ed Hewitt, Better Trout Streams I completely agree with Hewitt’s findings regarding the the sub-seven foot rule and corresponding biohealth. It started five years… Continue reading Spawning Brook Trout & Ed Hewitt’s Better Trout Streams (1931)