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Sugar River landowner dinner

By Topf Wells Let’s hope 13 is the Sugar River’s lucky number.  Thirteen landowners on the Sugar River and some key tributaries attended a dinner sponsored by SWTU, the Dane County Land and Water Resources Department, and the… Read More

Your input needed on the draft Inland Trout Management Plan

You will have an opportunity to review and comment on a draft statewide Inland Trout Management Plan at a series of upcoming meetings (including June 4 in Fitchburg). Learn all about it on the DNR website.

Our Great and Growing Local Public Waters

Please join us for our Thursday, April 11 Chapter meeting In addition to a 50/50 raffle, this meeting will also feature a silent auction for some great sets of flies! Please see below for details. April’s speaker is an… Read More

Gals, Gear & Beer

April 26th from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.; Madison Orvis Store

Help support Project Green Teen: 2019

Project Green Teen is our youth education program. Students in conservation classes at Shabazz learn the sport of fly fishing and go on a week long trip to the driftless area where they work with conservation partners completing… Read More

Help on the Stream Team at our April 13 Workday

Sugar River (Falk/Wells Wildlife Area – Sunset Road)
We’d love your help!

Conservation Congress seeks input on vital trout questions

By Topf Wells The Spring 2019 Conservation Congress Hearings will occur at Monona Grove High School (4400 Monona Drive) AT 7 p.m. on Monday, April 8. Learn about some important fishing and hunting regulations changes being proposed. 

A fun and productive first Stream Team workday of 2019

Thanks to Jim Beecher for these photos of our crew at work on Gordon Creek. Click “read more” for some photos or you can view the full album here.

Habitat work that will bear fruit … literally!!

SWTU hosted our second annual round of restorative pruning in the Neperud Orchard on Sunday, March 31.

Help the River Alliance build wader wash stations

River Alliance is hosting a work day on Saturday April 13th (rain date April 14) to build stations for river users to clean their waders and boots. These wader wash stations help prevent the spread of the New… Read More