The DNR Trout Stream Easement Improvement Team recently took to the field.  Two UW Platteville natural resource students will spend the summer on a variety of trout stream easements in our general area performing a variety of maintenance.  Their aim is to help the streams and make access safer and more convenient for anglers.  This will be hot, sweaty, buggy but most welcome and needed work.

SWTU contributed $2,500 to this effort and were joined by the DNR and several southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois/Chicago Chapters.  Jerry Saap of TU and TU DARE worked very hard to put this team to work.  Besides being a great and much needed idea in and of itself, it is a very substantial and innovative example of cooperation among all these chapters.  So if you see a young man and a young woman toiling away to clear brush or wild parsnip along a stream you’re fishing, please introduce yourself and thank them.