Submitted by wvangler on Tue, 2013-07-02 08:46 Groups audience West Virginia - 9WV Vote Up Down +2 + IMG_9289.JPG Location A fine native brook trout in the BOR Back to Gallery The concept of a Birthplace of Rivers National Monument is a campaign that West Virginia TU has been engaged in since the Spring of 2012. This would be the first USFS National Monument in the eastern US and is a western scale land protection effort to ensure that the headwater streams of six major rivers in the Southern Monongahela National Forest are managed under the same emphases they are today in perpetuity. For more information, visit birthplaceofrivers.org or wvtu.org