Name: Jade Thomason Hometown: Afton, MN MNTU Chapter: Gitche Gumee Favorite place to fish/be outside: The BWCA and Quetico When did you get involved with Minnesota Trout Unlimited? I first became involved with MNTU around a dozen years ago when I was hired to plant twelve thousand trees along trout streams over a summer. This was...
Winter-Emerging Midges Photo credit: Chironomidae Research Group In the frigid heart of winter, a hidden world of resilience unfolds beneath the icy surfaces of Minnesota's streams. Enter the winter-emerging chironomids (aka “midges”), tiny aquatic flies belonging to the Chironomidae family. Resembling miniature black mosquitoes, some types of these resilient insects defy...
By Kristen Poppleton 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...
Anglers needed to gather scale samples from steelhead in 2017; and to harvest Kamloops to reduce disastrous hybridization For the past two decades 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 would likely interfere...
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...
