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Action alert: North Shore steelhead need your help

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on September 24, 20172026-05-01T22:03:26+00:00

Anglers needed to gather scale samples from steelhead and to harvest Kamloops to reduce disastrous hybridization For the past two decades Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has been playing a dangerous game of roulette with our North Shore steelhead fishery.  Despite numerous studies indicating that stocking domesticated hatchery strain “kamloops” rainbows...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on September 24, 2017
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MNTU and Minnesota’s Largest Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Groups Urge State Lawmakers to Take Action on DNR Funding Before it is too Late

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on September 24, 20172026-04-14T15:46:38+00:00

MNTU and a broad coalition of Minnesota’s largest fishing, hunting and outdoors groups is warning state lawmakers that inaction could harm fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation and jeopardize the state’s $5.5 Billion tourism industry. In a letter to top leaders of both parties in the Minnesota House and Senate, the coalition...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on September 24, 2017
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Boundary Waters protected by federal agency decisions

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 17, 20162026-05-01T22:17:38+00:00

The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture today announced important steps to protect the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), which is home to Minnesota’s native inland lake trout stocks.  The agencies denied Twin Metals’ application for renewal of two hard rock mineral...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 17, 2016
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Action alert: Help prevent loss of protections for trout streams

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 17, 20162026-05-01T22:16:51+00:00

Forty-one trout streams are slated to lose their protective “designated trout stream” status under a proposal by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).  Comments are due by Monday November 7, 2016.  This is your last chance to provide evidence that these streams recently did, currently do, or could sustain...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 17, 2016
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Comments needed on Lake Superior management plan by May 8

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 6, 20162026-05-01T22:15:11+00:00

The deadline for commenting on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's (DNR) proposed revision of the management plan for Lake Superior and its tributaries is rapidly approaching. Comments are due by Sunday May 8. Here is the link to the webpage, which has draft plan and instructions on how to comment on-line...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 6, 2016
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Urge Governor Dayton to vote “no” on test case of Great Lakes Compact and protect Lake Superior from future water diversions

John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 6, 20162026-05-01T22:14:10+00:00

On Thursday March 3, 2016 the DNR hosts a meeting in Duluth regarding a decision which could set a precedent either to allow Lake Superior waters to be diverted out of the basin or to prevent such diversions.  The first test of the Great Lakes Compact is here – in...

By John Lenczewski - MNTU Executive Director on October 6, 2016
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