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.
On October 5 close to 40 individuals joined us for a day-long behind the scenes tour of sites where MNTU has completed habitat improvement projects. Our Executive Director John Lenczewski and Habitat Director, Jennifer Biederman led the trip, sharing their knowledge of how a project is planned, executed and monitored....
By Amber Taylor, Education Program Supervisor Welcome back to school! It’s Trout in the Classroom’s (TIC) 18th school year in Minnesota! In 2007, the Headwaters Chapter and a teacher from Bemidji’s elementary school got approval from the Minnesota -DNR to have a trout tank in the classroom, where they raised lake...
Our Minnesota Trout in the Classroom program has benefited from support from through the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. On this year’s November ballot you have the opportunity to vote to renew the state constitutional amendment that directs lottery proceeds be placed in the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund...
On August 4,2024 twenty conservation-minded folks gathered on the banks of Eagle Creek in Savage, MN to become certified Save Our Streams (SOS) community scientists – learning the techniques for biological and chemical water testing in streams. The effort was led by the Twin City Trout Unlimited (TCTU) Streamkeepers...
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...
Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud. MNTU’s mission is to protect, restore, and sustain Minnesota’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. Protection comes in the form of advocacy and restoration through...
Hello MNTU! My name is Kristen Poppleton and I am the new Assistant Director for Minnesota Trout Unlimited. This week I took advantage of the beautiful weather to drive south to Winona and meet Jennifer Biederman, our amazing Habitat Program Director, walk a recent habitat improvement project, and meet many...
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...
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...
