Action Alerts Archives | Minnesota Trout Unlimited

Action alert: Speak up to protect MNTU’s habitat improvement funding

The Outdoor Heritage Fund bill, which supports Minnesota Trout Unlimited’s habitat improvement projects, is still at a standstill in the state House of Representatives.

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on May 11, 2026

Action alert: Funding for habitat restoration is stalled

The Minnesota legislative session ends in two weeks and a few bills that would help safeguard the future of our coldwater fisheries need your help getting across the finish line.

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on May 5, 2026

Action alert: Protect robust trout streams near proposed data center in Hermantown

The proposed data center in Hermantown 278-acre sits between West Rocky Run and Adolph Creek - two streams containing some of the coldest water, best habitat and largest trout populations in the entire watershed and larger Duluth area.

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on April 21, 2026

Action alert: Recruit your out-of-state family and friends to protect the Boundary Waters

The resolution to reverse the 20-year ban on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is expected to reach the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate any day now.

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on April 14, 2026

Action alert: Protect Minnesota’s trout streams and groundwater

The deadline to notify the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) that the Groundwater Protection Rule is failing to prevent nitrate pollution in our trout streams and groundwater is Thursday, March 12. At a minimum, the agency needs to hear from you and your friends that: The current Rule is not adequate to...

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on March 6, 2026

Action alert: Contact your senators to protect the BWCAW

The U.S. Senate vote on the Joint Resolution that would overturn the 20-year ban on mining upstream of the Boundary Waters has been delayed.

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on February 16, 2026

Judge orders state to assess if fertilizer rules protect Minn. from nitrate pollution

DATE: 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

Inform our policy platform

We 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

Action alert: Protect coldwater streams through Minnesota’s feedlot rules

Minnesota’s trout streams and groundwater are some of our most valuable — and most vulnerable — resources. Minnesota Trout Unlimited is urging our members to tell the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to strengthen the Feedlot Rule to better protect clean water and healthy aquatic ecosystems. Specific comments on aspects of the...

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on June 8, 2025

Action alert: Protect trout and aquatic ecosystems across the state

May 2025 FEDERAL ACTION TO PROTECT THE BOUNDARY WATERS The House Natural Resources Committee recently passed its reconciliation bill that dismantles Boundary Waters protections from sulfide-ore copper mining. These efforts open the door to toxic copper mining within the watershed of the Boundary Waters, a world-class recreational fishery and home to native...

By Minnesota Trout Unlimited on May 8, 2025