On July 23, 2022, I helped report a massive fish kill on Rush Creek, one of my favorite local trout streams just three miles south of town. The massive die-off was the third one within a seven-year period, all within a 13-mile radius of my town. And it wasn’t just...
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...
the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) rejected a rulemaking petition submitted by environmental and public health groups urging MDA to protect Minnesota’s environment and people from neonicotinoid pesticides, or “neonics.”
How last week’s election results will impact our ability to better protect, restore, and sustain coldwater fisheries and watersheds is not clear. Most conservation work gets done locally, especially with Minnesota’s environmental laws and dedicated funding. National politics usually has less impact here. Control of the Minnesota House will likely...
he NRDC Action Fund, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA), and Minnesota Trout Unlimited have filed a petition calling on the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) to adopt rules to protect Minnesota’s environment and people from neonicotinoids and other dangerous insecticides.
Voting is a privilege and a right for American citizens and our opportunity to make choices based on our values. Voting is crucial for the protection of coldwater fisheries because it allows citizens to influence environmental policies and regulations. Governments and lawmakers play a key role in creating and enforcing...
By John Weiss, Hiawatha Trout Unlimited chapter member Would you like to help the environment and do it by taking only a second or two? You can and here’s how: vote yes on the amendment on this November’s ballot asking Minnesotans to reauthorize dedicating at least 40 percent of revenues from the...
While national politics takes up the big headlines right now, at MNTU we are 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...
Hometown: Prior Lake, MN. Graduate of St. Olaf College (BA), UW Madison (Ph.D.) MNTU Chapter: Current Board Member of Twin Cities Trout Unlimited. Before moving back to Minnesota in 2019, I was a member of Clearwater TU Chapter in Eau Claire. Favorite place to fish/be outside: I enjoy fishing for trophy rainbows on...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is asking for public comment to proposed changes to feedlot general permits issued to large feedlots of 1,000 or more animal units for operation and construction. Minnesota Trout Unlimited supports the much-needed additional oversight and regulations included of applications of manure to the land. Manure...
