About the Local Level.
On our own local level, we are based out of James Madison High School in Vienna, VA, located in Fairfax County. We are a student-led initiative split into quantitative data collection and biological monitoring. We conduct real, hands-on research outside the classroom. Through our data collection over the past few years, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries approved our Bull Run Mountain location - Catharpin Creek - for brook trout reintroduction. For the first time ever two years ago, brook trout were introduced at Catharpin Creek in hopes of restoring Virginia's native population of brook trout into our water.
On our own local level, we are based out of James Madison High School in Vienna, VA, located in Fairfax County. We are a student-led initiative split into quantitative data collection and biological monitoring. We conduct real, hands-on research outside the classroom. Through our data collection over the past few years, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries approved our Bull Run Mountain location - Catharpin Creek - for brook trout reintroduction. For the first time ever two years ago, brook trout were introduced at Catharpin Creek in hopes of restoring Virginia's native population of brook trout into our water.