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Kayaking Building Wooden Kayaks Beaver Baffles Steelhead Trout

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Kayaking

Building Wooden Kayaks

Kayaks are challenging boats to learn how to paddle. Building them requires a whole different set of challenges. We visited the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum to look at their "Champlain Discovery" program that teaches teenagers with almost no woodworking experience how to build their own kayaks. The program culminates with a student trip on Lake Champlain in their new boats.

Related Links:

Chesapeake Light Craft Kayak Builders Webring Lake Champlain Maritime Museum One Ocean Kayaks Wooden Boat Publications

Beaver Baffles

When it comes to making things out of wood no animal is more persistent and more proficient than the beaver. Beaver dams provide valuable wet land habitat for several species of fish and wildlife. But these same dams can cause a lot of damage to roads and septic systems. In this segment, we look at a unique project called the "Cooperative Beaver Baffle Demonstration Project" that uses water control structures to properly manage beaver dam water levels.

Related Links:

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation - Water Quality Division Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife: Kim Royar, 802-885-8831

Steelhead Trout

If you're looking for big steelhead trout in Vermont, you'll find no finer spot to cast than the eleven-mile stretch of the Willoughby River between Lake Willoughby and the Barton River. Every spring people come from miles around not only to fish, but watch them jumping upstream to reach spawning grounds. The falls at Orleans presents one of the best fish watching opportunities in Vermont if not all New England. Host Lawrence Pyne, and angler Michael Hahn, tackle the Willoughby in search of two feet of steelhead.

Related Links:
The Fly Rod Shop GORP Vermont Fishing Guide Salmonfly.net Trout Streams of Vermont Trout Unlimited, Vermont State Council Vermont Department of Fish     & Wildlife: Len Geradi, 802-751-0108	Fish Reports Orleans General Store 72 Main Street Orleans, VT 05869 802-754-6365

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