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Responsible Mining: A Roadmap for Mining Critical Minerals

mntuweb2021-01-21T03:06:21+00:00

A Roadmap for Mining of Critical Minerals and Sulfide Ore Deposits For the past ten years the possibility of a new type of mining in northeast Minnesota has consumed the energies of environmentalists, conservationists, businesses, agencies, and politicians at all levels of government. The debate about whether, where and how...

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Timber Harvest on Aquatic Management Lands

mntuweb2020-02-23T21:39:23+00:00

DNR to Cut 90% of AMAs on North Shore Under the DNR’s proposed “Sustainable Timber Harvest Analysis” plan, the DNR intends to harvest trees from 90% of the land the Fisheries Section owns along trout and steelhead rivers in Lake County. This includes riparian forests along premier rivers such as...

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Your Favorite Trout Stream May Be Impaired

mntuweb2020-02-23T15:03:30+00:00

What do the Whitewater, Vermillion, Straight and Sucker Rivers all have in common, besides being popular trout streams? They all suffer from one or more impairments caused by pollution or degradation.   This week the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released its Draft 2020 Impaired Waters List identifying more than 500 additional...

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Ask Legislators to Drop Provisions Removing Groundwater Protections

mntuweb2019-05-13T14:21:28+00:00

The Environment & Natural Resources omnibus bill, SF2314, contains several provisions which, if adopted in the final bill version, would undermine basic groundwater protections and allow destruction of trout fisheries. The Senate version of SF 2314 has provisions (Sections 81, 82, 84 and 85) undermining intelligent groundwater management, which will...

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March 25 Meeting in Red Wing to examine nitrate contamination of Driftless trout streams – RSVP now

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:15:33+00:00

A key meeting to consider nitrate-contaminated groundwater and trout streams in the karst region of southeast Minnesota (MN’s portion of the Driftless area) will be held Monday March 25, 2019 in Red Wing, MN beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) will hold a public meeting...

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MPCA denies permit to proposed feedlot near Newburg & Wisel Creeks; recommends regional study of nitrate contamination

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:16:49+00:00

The MPCA has denied a general permit to the proposed feedlot near Newburg and Wisel Creeks in Fillmore County. This temporary reprieve for the groundwater and trout streams in the vicinity is welcome news. Below is the announcement from MPCA.   While denial of the general permit is a big deal...

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Raid on Environmental Trust Fund

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:17:44+00:00

One of the bills which passed in the final hours of the MN legislative session was a bonding bill to which the LCCMR/ENRTF bill was amended.  The bill includes a raid on funds in the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF), which are constitutionally dedicated for environmental purposes. ...

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May 14 Legislative Update – with one week to end of session

mntuweb2018-05-14T17:36:39+00:00

The MN Legislature session ends in one week. It has been a strange session with few bills passed and instead a monster “omnibus omnibus” bill which plods forward.  It contains environmental policy provisions.  Since the Senate and House versions of this bill differ, the bill is in a conference...

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Minnesota Trout Unlimited welcomes MNDNR change in stocking to protect and recover Lake Superior steelhead.

mntuweb2018-04-16T20:20:55+00:00

March 15, 2018 Minnesota Trout Unlimited (MNTU) welcomes today’s announcement by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that it will make long overdue changes in stocking practices in North Shore rivers in order to preserve and rebuild Minnesota’s unique wild steelhead fishery, while allowing time for full recovery of...

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New website launched

mntuweb2017-11-17T17:41:13+00:00

On November 16, 2017 we hurriedly launch our newly designed website, warts and all, when our previous site crashed unexpectedly.  While the new site is not completed and has some outdated information, we will be working diligently to revise content and them begin importing lots of new content.  Thank you for your patience...

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  • Your Favorite Trout Stream May Be Impaired
  • Ask Legislators to Drop Provisions Removing Groundwater Protections
  • March 25 Meeting in Red Wing to examine nitrate contamination of Driftless trout streams – RSVP now

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