Minnesota Trout Unlimited

Protect • Reconnect • Restore • Sustain

OUR MISSION

Minnesota Trout Unlimited represents several thousand members and five chapters in Minnesota. Our mission is to conserve, protect, restore, and sustain Minnesota’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.

100+ Miles of Trout Streams Restored

100+ Projects

5 Chapters

WHAT WE DO

MNTU believes that a strong community of anglers, conservation organizations and businesses working together and engaging with the resource is key to maintaining the waters we care about. Together MNTU has restored over 82 miles of trout streams. Aside from habitat work, MNTU believes strongly in engaging the community through youth and adult fishing and education programs.

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Help Out Your Local Waters

MNTU carries out habitat improvement projects around the state thanks to funding from Minnesota’s Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Fund and other sources. Check out the chapter news section within our publication or contact your chapter directly to find out when the next volunteer opportunity will be taking place.

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HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

VISIT SOME OF OUR RECENT HABITAT PROJECTS

Keene Creek

MNTU partnered with the City of Hermantown to replace an undersized barrier culvert on Keene Creek with a properly sized pre-cast concrete arch culvert with headwall and wingwalls, reconnecting wild brook trout with 8,300-ft of habitat.

Cedar Valley Creek

The Cedar Valley Creek HI project was completed in early August 2025 , restoring approximately 5,200 feet of trout stream.

Rice Creek

This project aimed to restore floodplain access and increase in-stream fish and macroinvertebrate habitat along approximately 5,200 linear feet of Rice Creek, a designated trout stream in Fillmore County, MN.

MNTU’s barrier removal projects also benefit aquatic invertebrates

When most trout anglers think about culvert replacements, they rightly think of trout passage to critical habitat. Undersized, perched, and crumbling culverts...

Minnesota Trout Unlimited just wrapped up its Trout in the Classroom (“TIC”) education program for the 2024-2025 school year!

There were 79 tanks in 67 schools and 2 nature centers this year. 55 of those schools and 1 of the nature...

Trees for Trout: An Update on MNTU’s Riparian Reforestation Project

If you’ve fished along a trout stream in northeast Minnesota lately, you’ve probably noticed the standing dead spruce and balsam fir, open...

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