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News Feature: “Furnace and Fish” from the Cornwall Chronicle

April 4, 2024 By HVA Admin

April 22, 2024

HVA Watershed Conservation Director, Mike Jastremski, is featured in this article from the Cornwall Chronicle by Ella Clark, where he is interviewed about his work at the Furnace Brook fish ladder.

“‘That’s a big problem.’ Mike Jastremski was concerned. We were looking down from Route 4 at the Furnace Brook fish ladder. In the fish channel was the piece of a tree—about 11-feet long and eight inches in diameter. ‘Heavy. Waterlogged. Gotta get it out of there.’ Mike is HVA’s ‘watershed conservation director’—burly, bearded, and agile….”

Read more here.

Quote taken from the Cornwall Chronicle website: https://cornwallchronicle.org/furnace-and-fish/

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