Three great resources! By Topf Wells If you need to read a different sort of news these days, your local and hard-working DNR fish biologists might have something of interest.  Nate Nye, the biologist for Columbia and Sauk… Read More

By Topf Wells Dane County has just introduced legislation to purchase a new easement on Halfway Prairie Creek near Mazomanie in partnership with Groundswell Conservancy The easement will enable the public to fish about 1,250 feet of Halfway… Read More

At its June 24th meeting, the DNR Board will consider buying an additional 44 acres along Anthony Branch in the Anthony Branch Fish and Wildlife Area.  The purchase would include .3 mile (about 1600 feet) of double stream… Read More

Tom Wendlelburg died sometime in May. None of us know any details because he died in his apartment sometime before his death was discovered. Tom was one of the most memorable characters in SWTU’s history and in the… Read More

Conservation legend Dan Wisniewski passed away from complications of heart failure on April 16, 2020. Earlier this year, the State Council of Trout Unlimited honored Dan’s significant achievements with a Lifetime Achievement Award. It’s the second such award… Read More

We inherited a grant last year that does invasive species awareness throughout not only the Upper Sugar River Watershed, but a nine-county area of SW Wisconsin. It’s really exciting to be doing work in all these new places,… Read More

The Stoughton Recreation Department offers a youth class on Tenkara fishing – they have equipment, location and a means to promote it … but no instructor. Likely a four week, 1 hour class and could be flexible to… Read More

Many thanks to all who attended our October Chapter Meeting! Below are some websites you’ll want to explore and bookmark, as shared in the meeting. 

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has pioneered an ambitious stream and lake conservation project in the Yahara watershed known as “Suck the Muck.”  The muck is the phosphorous-laden sediment clogging the stream bottoms of almost all the tributary… Read More