The SWTU Board recently and unanimously approved $3,750 to help fund a DNR intern for a summer of work. A generous donation from the Wisconsin Smallmouth Alliance covered the remaining funds for the position. The request came from Kim Kuberly and Camille Bruhn, the DNR Water Quality biologists for this part of the state, for an intern to help them complete their summer stream and river surveys. They need the intern to complete the work and some budget problems put that hire in doubt.

Camille and Kim often work with the Fish Biologists; their surveys are often extremely helpful to those biologists as they assess trout streams in our area. Their summer work plan includes important surveys of trout streams including the evaluation of restorations on Kittleson and Pleasant Valley Creeks and continuing study of the impacts of New Zealand Mudsnails in nearby trout streams. We’ll welcome Kim, Camille, and the intern to a fall meeting when they’ll share info and photos on what they discovered this summer.