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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DATE: 01/28/25 CONTACT: Sarah Horner, MCEA, shorner@mncenter.org, 612-868-3024 Saint Paul, Minn – Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to fortify Minnesota’s commitment to addressing the longstanding nitrate pollution problem impairing drinking water in the southeastern region of the state as the federal administration changes hands. The suit was filed against the Minnesota...
By Amber Taylor, Education Manager As Trout in the Classroom students returned to school last week, the tiny alevin, or sac fry, that had been flopping around awkwardly on the bottom of the basket before they left had begun to swim! This is the third of four different developmental stages students...
Contacts: Jesús Canchola Sánchez, NRDCAF, jcanchola@nrdc.org, (312) 847-6808 Sarah Horner, MCEA, shorner@mncenter.org, (612) 868-3024 Kristen Poppleton, MNTU, kristen.poppleton@mntu.org, (651) 332-0070 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Agency denies rulemaking petition to remedy longstanding violations of Minnesotans’ environmental rights SAINT PAUL, MN (December 19, 2024) – Today,...
