We’ve all heard of a brook or stream, but the word rill – a term that dates back to the 16th century and is probably German in origin – is less well known. It simply means a very small ...

For example, following widespread forest clear-cutting at the turn of the 19th century in the southern Appalachians, brook trout streams were ... at a relatively small spatial scale or are ...

With splashes and dashes, thousands of tiny brook trout swam free in several southeast Minnesota streams this August. That represented a major milestone in a Minnesota Department of Natural ...