On November 16, 2017 we hurriedly launch our newly designed website, warts and all, when our previous site crashed unexpectedly. While the new site is not completed and has some outdated information, we will be working diligently to revise content and them begin importing lots of new content. Thank you for your patience as...
Increased funding is needed to protect and improve our fisheries, yet legislative leaders are ignoring anglers’ request for a small fee increase to maintain quality fishing. The legislative session ends Sunday, BUT CALLS TODAY CAN TURN THE TIDE. Tomorrow may be too late. Please take 2 minutes and place short calls (or send e...
The MN Legislature is poised to remove the 50 foot buffers from trout streams in place since the 1980s. They plan to roll back basic water protections, push an anti-public lands agenda and cut core funding from DNR and MPCA as well. Legislators are claiming that they are not hearing from voters....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two legislators have renewed efforts to roll back basic protections for drinking water supplies and trout fisheries. Rep. Howe (R – Rockville) and Rep. Newberger (R- Becker) recently introduced H.F. 3399 and H.F. 3400, which undermine groundwater sustainability requirements and effectively prevent DNR from restricting excessive, unsustainable pumping of groundwater...
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...
