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South Lake Tahoe students seek to restore native fish: “It’s a small fish after all” answers Disney Planet Challenge

Posted by: Maven on February 26, 2010 at 6:12 am

From YubaNet.com:

“Stepping up to the Disney Planet Challenge, elementary school students in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., have partnered with a local nonprofit and government agencies on a project that they hope will help restore Tahoe’s native fish, while winning the students a trip to Disney Land.

Mr. Comlossy’s fifth-grade class at the Lake Tahoe Environmental Magnet School interviewed numerous organizations and agencies proposing projects to protect Lake Tahoe and its surrounding ecosystem, before selecting a proposal from the U.S. Forest Service and local nonprofit California Trout. The project, entitled by students, “It’s a Small Fish After All,” proposes to do something never done before in their watershed: raise and release native non-game minnows for recovery back into Tahoe streams.

In addition to California Trout and the Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, the Tahoe Resource Conservation District, California Department of Fish and Game, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service are assisting the students in reaching their goal.

The project aims to enhance populations of native Mountain Whitefish and Speckled dace in local streams by rearing them in the classroom, improving their stream habitat prior to release and educating legislators and the community about the importance of these small fish. … “

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February 26, 2010 · Filed Under Lake Tahoe, the Sierras & foothills

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