Walhalla State Fish Hatchery honored for Decades of Service

The Greenville-Spartanburg National Weather Service recently honored the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources’ Walhalla State Fish Hatchery for their more than 75 years of official weather observations. The National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Station was established in October of 1940. It was operated by the U.S. Fish Hatchery, with hatchery personnel taking the observations. In the 1960’s, the name was changed to Walhalla National Fish Hatchery. The station was manned by members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service until 1996 when the ownership of the hatchery and the accompanying weather station was transferred to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.