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MNTU Kicks Off the Field Season with a Riparian Forestry Project on the Sucker River

Kristen Poppleton2025-04-07T22:08:25+00:00

Minnesota Trout Unlimited is dedicated to preserving and improving the health of trout streams across the state. During these cold weeks of early spring, we’ve kicked off our first project of the year in the Sucker River watershed, a top-tier brook trout and steelhead stream east of Duluth. We're implementing...

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Actions you can take TODAY to Honor Earth Month

Kristen Poppleton2025-04-08T13:18:27+00:00

April 8, 2025 Keeping up with all of the important opportunities to advocate for protection of coldwater fisheries is nearly impossible right now with attacks on our natural resources coming at all levels of government. It’s important to continue speaking up against legislation that will impact what you hold dear, as...

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No Hatch to Match? The Silent Decline of Aquatic Insects in Minnesota Trout Streams

Kristen Poppleton2025-03-01T20:35:12+00:00

If you’ve spent any time fishing the cold, clear streams of the Driftless Region, you know that matching the hatch is often the key to success. Hundreds of fly patterns exist to mimic the many species of mayflies, caddisflies, and stoneflies that emerge throughout the season. But in recent years,...

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How are the Trout growing?

Kristen Poppleton2025-04-04T19:06:00+00:00

The thousands of tiny, neon orange eggs students welcomed in December have now gone through two additional life cycle stages: alevin and swim up fry. As alevin, the trout are not yet eating regular food or swimming. Instead, they flop around on their sides in the egg basket, piling up...

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MNTU Trout Brook stream improvement project wins engineering award

Kristen Poppleton2025-03-01T20:37:26+00:00

On February 21, 2025 MNTU’s design engineers on its Trout Brook project, Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc (EOR), received a Water Resources Excellence award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Minnesota for our recent stream habitat restoration project in Miesville Ravine County Park Reserve.  We collaborated with...

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Bill Introduction Season is Here

Kristen Poppleton2025-02-28T21:51:34+00:00

March 11, 2025 Bills are being introduced at the Minnesota legislature at a rapid pace now and we are following a number of them as they connect with our priority issues. Make sure you are signed up for our action alerts if you want to be alerted about opportunities to advocate...

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The science of stream restoration: What is fluvial geomorphology and how does it influence what we do?

Kristen Poppleton2025-04-04T19:06:23+00:00

Caption: SSL-SWCD staff doing pre-project geomorphological surveys at Amity Creek in Duluth. These data will be used to inform the design of the Amity Creek restoration project – a collaborative project involving SSL-SWCD and MNTU. (Photo: Tim Beaster, SSL-SWCD) By Dr. Jennifer Biederman, Habitat Director Stream restoration has come a long way...

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The Tiny Winter Black Stonefly: A Cold-Weather Clue to Water Quality: February Macro of the Month

Kristen Poppleton2025-02-09T17:37:25+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=e2h6Bqc4S0LIyQhC&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&v=JfhFGzSBFxk&feature=youtu.be For many anglers, winter means tying flies, maintaining gear, and daydreaming about warmer days on the water. But, those that do brave the frigid winter air to chase trout on Minnesota streams are sometimes rewarded with a mid-winter hatch of the tiny winter black stonefly (Allocapnia spp). Although trout feed...

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Trout Streams Became My Psychiatrist

Kristen Poppleton2025-04-21T17:34:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/Q4izww7AuC4?si=XdxUlGYOVAMjtPHX Hello, my name is Mark Reisetter and I am a longtime member of Minnesota Trout Unlimited. I came to Lewiston in Southeastern Minnesota 57 years ago, taking a teaching job right out of college. After my first year of teaching, I was drafted into the Army and sent to Vietnam in...

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TIC on Ice

Kristen Poppleton2025-02-09T16:09:07+00:00

Winter brings a flurry of action on the Trout in the Classroom front. Students across the state now have baby trout, called fry, swimming around in their tanks. Our education staff and volunteers have been busy traveling to all four corners of the state programming with our schools. Thanks to...

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