July is the heart of field season when it comes to carrying out stream restoration work across the state. Tackling riparian invasives, removing barriers to fish passage, scoping future projects, maintaining tree plantings, and implementing large scale instream habitat improvements - the staff, members, volunteers, and contractors of MNTU have...
MNTU has a long history of developing awareness of, and urging action to reduce, nitrate contamination, especially where contamination impacts Minnesota’s trout streams (see timeline). Regulating nitrates in Minnesota, especially southeast Minnesota, is critical to protect the region’s coldwater fisheries, including brook, brown, and rainbow trout. These...
THE DR. THOMAS WATERS AWARD FOR MINNESOTA CONSERVATION: MARK REISETTER For his lifetime of achievements in coldwater conservation, MNTU presented the 2025 Dr. Thomas Waters Award for Minnesota Conservation to Mark Reisetter. A deeply dedicated teacher and conservationist, Mark has been a member of TU since the late 1970s. He served as...
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...
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...
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...
by John Lenczewski, November 11, 2024 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...
