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Taylorsville Elementary and Spencer County Middle School teachers, Shannon and Sean Buynak used Trout in the Classroom over the school year to help their students raise trout from eggs to fingerlings. The climax to which the students look forward is when they can get to a cold water stream to release their trout. Some 50 students from both the elementary and middle school in Spencer County arrived at Fort Knox on Saturday morning, May 15, to release their fingerlings into Otter Creek. Permits from Fort Knox and Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources had been obtained by the Louisville Chapter of Trout Unlimited. But before they could release their trout, Mr. Kelly Taylor, from the UK’s Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment led them on an aquatic macroinvertebrate study to determine if the creek was fit for trout. Mr. Taylor wanted to know how the trout would survive in the wild if there was no food for them in the stream. Students with nets rolled over rocks and captured many specimens that were identified by Mr. Taylor as food for trout. The students gathered crawfish, right hand snails, mayfly, stonefly nymphs and other larvae and, of course, one non venomous, harmless little Northern Water Snake. Otter Creek scored a 20 which is good for a biological water quality index. Spencer County became involved with Trout in the Classroom upon a suggestion by TU Councilman Sandy Broughman and engineer Bill Drury who along with Gary Rose and Don Thompson made presentations to the Spencer County Board of Directors. Two teachers, Sean and Shannon Buynak jumped right in at the first and were the real heros of the day’s climax. Sean’s father works with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife so there was experience on their side and this husband and wife team were no strangers to projects such as Trout in the Classroom. Their experience soon shined like the sun. The Louisville Chapter of Trout Unlimited who sponsored these two schools, provided pizza for lunch at streamside after the students had released their prized trout fingerlings.
Taylorsville Elementary and Spencer County Middle School teachers, Shannon and Sean Buynak used Trout in the Classroom over the school year to help their students raise trout from eggs to fingerlings. The climax to which the students look forward is when they can get to a cold water stream to release their trout. Some 50 students from both the elementary and middle school in Spencer County arrived at Fort Knox on Saturday morning, May 15, to release their fingerlings into Otter Creek. Permits from Fort Knox and Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources had been obtained by the Louisville Chapter of Trout Unlimited. But before they could release their trout, Mr. Kelly Taylor, from the UK’s Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment led them on an aquatic macroinvertebrate study to determine if the creek was fit for trout. Mr. Taylor wanted to know how the trout would survive in the wild if there was no food for them in the stream. Students with nets rolled over rocks and captured many specimens that were identified by Mr. Taylor as food for trout. The students gathered crawfish, right hand snails, mayfly, stonefly nymphs and other larvae and, of course, one non venomous, harmless little Northern Water Snake. Otter Creek scored a 20 which is good for a biological water quality index. Spencer County became involved with Trout in the Classroom upon a suggestion by TU Councilman Sandy Broughman and engineer Bill Drury who along with Gary Rose and Don Thompson made presentations to the Spencer County Board of Directors. Two teachers, Sean and Shannon Buynak jumped right in at the first and were the real heros of the day’s climax. Sean’s father works with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife so there was experience on their side and this husband and wife team were no strangers to projects such as Trout in the Classroom. Their experience soon shined like the sun. The Louisville Chapter of Trout Unlimited who sponsored these two schools, provided pizza for lunch at streamside after the students had released their prized trout fingerlings.
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