Evaluating stream habitat designs across southeast Minnesota
Over the past few decades, Minnesota has made tremendous progress in restoring and enhancing its coldwater streams.
Why I became involved with Minnesota Trout Unlimited
Mike Madigan - MNTU Council Chair on September 8, 20252026-04-30T21:48:51+00:00Volunteer Spotlight on Mike Madigan Both my mother and father were fly fishers. They gave me my first fly rod when I was 7, a seven-foot Fenwick glass rod. For the first few years, I spent a great deal of time extricating my flies from the trees and bushes that lined...
By Mike Madigan - MNTU Council Chair on September 8, 2025
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Macro of the Month: Beetles
Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on September 8, 20252026-05-01T17:16:35+00:00All it takes is a little wind on the grass and you might be lucky enough to hear a little plop under the bank – maybe a beetle tumbling into the water to become a late afternoon salmonid snack. In late summer and early fall, beetles are a terrestrial staple...
By Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on September 8, 2025
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Trout in the Classroom: 19 years and growing
Amber Taylor - MNTU Education Program Supervisor on September 8, 20252026-04-30T21:53:00+00:00In its 19th year, Minnesota Trout in the Classroom has 86 tanks in 74 schools and 2 nature centers throughout the state ready to be filled, cycled, and prepared to welcome 300 tiny, neon orange trout eggs this winter. Check out this map color coded by MNTU chapter to...
By Amber Taylor - MNTU Education Program Supervisor on September 8, 2025
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Why toewood is showing up along Minnesota trout streams
Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on September 8, 20252026-07-20T22:33:53+00:00For MNTU, the goal of using toewood is not just to “hold the bank”. It’s to restore function, including banks that resist erosion, channels that can move a little without failing, and cover habitat that supports abundant fish and invertebrates.
By Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on September 8, 2025
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Judge orders state to assess if fertilizer rules protect Minn. from nitrate pollution
Minnesota Trout Unlimited on September 8, 20252026-04-30T21:54:21+00:00DATE: 09/08/25 CONTACT: Sarah Horner, MCEA, shorner@mncenter.org, 612-868-3024 Saint Paul, Minn – A Ramsey County District Court judge ordered the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) to review whether the rules they have in place to protect Minnesotans’ drinking water from nitrate pollution are working....
By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on September 8, 2025
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Macro of the Month: Grasshoppers
Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on August 12, 20252026-05-01T17:16:42+00:00It’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...
By Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on August 12, 2025
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Another year of Trout in the Classroom
Amber Taylor - MNTU Education Program Supervisor on August 12, 20252026-04-30T21:58:42+00:00The 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...
By Amber Taylor - MNTU Education Program Supervisor on August 12, 2025
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Bare soil to thriving native habitat: What happens after stream restoration
Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on August 11, 20252026-07-20T22:22:24+00:00When a stream restoration project wraps up, the work on the ground is just beginning.
By Jennifer Biederman - MNTU Habitat Director on August 11, 2025
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Inform our policy platform
Minnesota Trout Unlimited on August 11, 20252026-04-30T22:00:32+00:00We 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...
By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on August 11, 2025
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