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An essay is presented on the stocking of trout in the Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek in in central Pennsylvania's Elk County. It offers a history of how logging and mining operations contaminated Bennett Branch and discusses a restoration project of a major tributary to the Bennett by the Bennett Branch Watershed Association and P&N Coal Company, the cleanup's cost to taxpayers, and why taxpayers must demand that gas, oil, and coal companies be environmentally responsible.

The article discusses how habitat changes in the U.S. as a result of climate change and the feral hog population are affecting native wild plants such as wildflowers. Topics include the author's activism to extend protection of Pennsylvania's threatened and endangered plants, feral swine's damage to plants and wildlife habitats, and the National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) efforts to protect the U.S. from environmental threats of invasive species.