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Macroinvertebrate of the Month: Grasshoppers (a.k.a. “Hoppers”)

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-12T00:29:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=brQSuflgREs0ySwV&ct=t%28EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_13_2024_15_51_COPY_01%29&v=iBe6QJsGE10&feature=youtu.be It’s August in Minnesota. The heat has settled in, and streamside vegetation hangs thick and heavy over the banks of coldwater streams and rivers across the state. In our backyard, my daughters love to pass the time catching grasshoppers in the tall grass and tossing them into the stream, watching...

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Another Year of Trout in the Classroom

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-12T00:00:42+00:00

The 2025-26 Trout in the Classroom season kicked off with our first teacher and volunteer training in Duluth and the Twin Cities! This year we’re holding training sessions in two locations to support our growing and dispersed network of classrooms across the state. The location of the trainings also offered...

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What Happens After Stream Restoration? From Bare Soil to Cover Crops to Thriving Native Habitat

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-11T23:15:47+00:00

When a stream restoration project wraps up, the work on the ground is just beginning. During construction, streambanks are graded and soil is heavily disturbed throughout the project reach. In most cases, to restore the stream’s access to its floodplain we must grade back soil. This requires that most vegetation...

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Inform our Policy Platform

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-11T23:12:21+00:00

We are looking ahead to the next state legislative session and preparing our policy platform. Preventing Fish Kills will continue to be one overarching goal of MNTU as we consider specific hurdles to our work conserving, protecting, restoring, and sustaining Minnesota’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.Some issues we know will...

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Help Inform our 2024-25 Policy Platform

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-08T17:08:42+00:00

MNTU is looking ahead to the next state legislative session and preparing our policy platform. Preventing Fish Kills will continue to be an overarching goal of MNTU as we consider specific issues that will conserve, protect, restore, and sustain Minnesota’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. Some issues we know will continue...

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2025 Legislative Session Recap

Kristen Poppleton2025-08-08T17:02:52+00:00

Legislative session was more a game of defense, rather than much momentum forward this year. In general we held the line on our priority issues and were happy that so many of you showed up to attend rallies and hearings, and in submitting letters of concern to your elected officials....

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THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR 2024-25 DONORS

Kristen Poppleton2025-07-08T00:52:02+00:00

By Mark Abner, MNTU Development Associate Minnesota Trout Unlimited would like to express our appreciation to each of the record 288 generous donors who donated during our last fiscal year, which ran from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. Your collective contributions totaled an impressive $130,000 for the mission! Regardless...

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July 2025 Macro of the Month: Ants on the Water and Trout on the Feed

Kristen Poppleton2025-07-08T00:30:33+00:00

https://youtu.be/-VuagsWHNM8?si=KpzgCgYfCFK9TXXQ One of my favorite surprises of summer trout fishing in Minnesota comes after a good soaking rain. When storms sweep through the valleys, they don’t just raise the rivers a few inches. They send ants tumbling from trees and grass into the currents, and the trout are quick to notice. Ants...

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Duluth’s Amity Creek Receives New Protection!

Kristen Poppleton2025-07-08T00:32:00+00:00

MNTU is proud to be a part of an effort to add the highest level of protections to over 1,100 acres of land in the City of Duluth now called the Lester–Amity–Hawk Ridge Natural Area as a part of Duluth’s Natural Area Program (DNAP). The area includes a large segment...

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Trout in the Classroom is Making an Impact

Kristen Poppleton2025-07-07T19:17:40+00:00

MN Trout in the Classroom teachers are the type of teachers that you would want your children and grandchildren to have as they move through their K-12 years. These teachers are excited and passionate individuals that work hard to provide engaging, hands on learning opportunities like TIC for their students....

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