Posts from the ‘Recreation’ category

Giant golden trout coming to area creeks next year, though not everyone is happy about it

Faced with a national decline in fishing, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is breeding ever more golden rainbow and other prized trout in the hope of luring more anglers to the sport. More anglers paying for licenses brings in more revenue to feed conservation programs. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Take a tour through the Delaware Water Gap, the crown jewel that nearly disappeared

To many, the Water Gap is the crown jewel of this enormous watershed. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

The American Shad faces climate challenges, but fishermen still make runs on the Delaware River

“Shad are kind of like the canaries in the coal mine” | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia’s Wissahickon is slammed with millions of visitors, increasing trash, noise, risks

So far this year, the park has unofficially drawn 2.8 million visitors. That’s roughly 700,000 more than in the same period last year, a 33 percent increase | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Shad, trout, invasives: What three kinds of Delaware River fish reveal about our region

Fish, perhaps more than any other animal in the watershed, are affected first by fluctuations in water quality. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

What it looks like to kayak the Schuylkill for seven days and 112 miles

It was not a competition, but rather a journey — one not seen by the road, that had turtles and bald eagles along the way. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

The most Philly thing you can do in a boat on the Delaware River

Such is life out on Philadelphia’s big river: beautiful, industrial, resurgent, and at times, a little crude. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Is it safe to swim in the Delaware or Schuylkill? What about Devil’s Pool? It’s complicated.

“It don’t bother none of us. If I saw a dead body or something like that, I’d be worried” | The Philadelphia Inquirer

National Geographic taught 8 Philly kids photography. Here are their pictures.

Students learned basic photography so they could explore their city and tell the stories they discovered. | The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Source: Stories of The Delaware

From the Source: Stories of the Delaware is a year-long collaborative reporting project covering the Delaware River and the watershed feeding it from multiple angles — water quality, environmental challenges, climate change, recreation, history, and how it all converges to define our region and inform life here.

Through words, images, audio, videos, and interactive graphics, we will take readers from the Catskills to the Water Gap; through muddy, secret fishing holes and urban centers, to where the river melds with the bay.

From the Source: Stories of the Delaware River, is produced with support from the National Geographic Society, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, and the William Penn Foundation. Editorial content is created independently of the project’s donors.