Pennsylvania’s Yellow Breeches Creek is a world-renowned trout fishery, and part of Pennsylvania’s Scenic River System. In addition to providing outstanding habitat for fish and many other forms of wildlife, it is a source of drinking water. In this podcast, PennFuture’s Jan Jarrett visits the stream at the site of the Hoffman Mill Dam removal in Lisburn (Cumberland County). She talks to Dale Bentz, a contractor hired to oversee the dam removal, and Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Dave Christine, a fish biologist working on this and similar projects throughout the state as part of their Migratory Fish Restoration Program. The goal of the project is to return Yellow Breeches to a free-flowing waterway once again, where its habitat can support migratory fish species such as American shad, American eel, and river herring, to name a few. Dam removal will also create physical changes to the stream channel that will improve existing fishing conditions as well as access to the stream for anglers. Funding sources for projects like this one come from a variety of state, federal, and non-profit sources, including Pennsylvania’s Growing Greener program. You can learn more about dam removal in the Mid-Atlantic region at American Rivers’ web site. To see more picutres of this dam removal project, click here here.