There's something fishy about New Fairfield High School student, Lucie Tuthill. Lucie is a participant in UConn's fantastic Conservation Ambassador Program, in which teens learn about conservation science from professors and graduate students, and partner with an organization in their community to conduct a conservation project. With Great Hollow as her community partner and mentorship from Uconn professor Dr. Jason Vokoun and Ph.D. student Megan Upp, Lucie is conducting a study of the fish in Quaker Brook and its tributaries within Great Hollow Nature Preserve. Her project will help inventory and determine the density of all of the fish species living in the stream, and also provide information on age class distribution, which is indicative of population health. Quaker Brook is one of a dwindling number of streams in Connecticut that is clean and healthy enough to support completely wild (i.e., not hatchery-raised and stocked) brook trout. Learning more about the brook trout population in Quaker Brook will help us to monitor its status and hopefully ensure its persistence into the future. (pictured : brook trout about to be measured and then released by Lucie)