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.
Cold Front Stalls – Crew Revives for Great Ham Sandwiches and Very Cold Beer
Posted: June 13, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Workday report by Topf Wells
A cold front hit Madison in the morning at about 7:45, dropping the temperature and providing a cool breeze. Forty miles can make a big difference in weather. The cold front did not reach Steiner Branch until after 1 p.m. … 50 minutes after the work day ended. Sigh. After the work day, and 100 gallons of sweat produced by about 10 volunteers, several of us asked, “Where the heck is that cold front?” Read More
Sweetening up the Sugar River
Last Updated: June 13, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Workday report by Topf Wells
With reference to the basketball and hockey playoffs, HESS SHOOTS AND SCORES. Jim organized another most successful work day. Almost 20 volunteers cut, limbed, hauled and stacked truckloads of invasive honeysuckle and box elder on the County’s new Davidson Property on the Sugar River (between Verona and Paoli). That material now waits in carefully arranged piles to be transformed into two very large brush bundles at our mid-June work day at this site. Read More
Sulphur Dun
Last Updated: June 13, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
by Rusty Dunn
Spring creeks offer some of the world’s most challenging trout fishing. They are often slowly moving, glassy smooth, crystal clear, and thick with weeds by mid-summer. Spring creek trout can be surprisingly large, because the slightly alkaline waters support immense populations of insects, crustaceans, and other trout fare. Read More
Posted: June 12, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Help keep the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund going
Please take a bit of time and contact your state senator and state assembly person to ask that he or she support a proposed 10 year extension of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. Read More
Posted: June 12, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Vets on the River – Free Women Veteran’s Fishing Trip
There are a few openings for a FREE trip for female veterans Sept 17-20 up by Hayward, Wis. Meals, lodging, fishing gear and even guide tips are included. Learn more at these links:
https://www.nps.gov/sacn/planyourvisit/vets-on-the-river-programs.htm
https://www.nps.gov/articles/vets-on-the-river.htm
Another tremendous year for “PGT”
Posted: June 12, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Project Green Teen (PGT) is SWTU’s youth education program. Partnered with Shabazz these students spend a semester learning about ecology and the environment. This year Students spent the week learning about conservation issues working with the WI DNR and TU Driftless. Read More
Last Updated: June 12, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
June update on the Westfork Sports Club – Restoring flood damage
By Tina Murray
The club continues to rebuild after the flood of 2018. From the Portage Shelter north is open and functional. Please don’t drive in low lying areas or in sandy areas. You will get stuck. There is a grounds repair plan and a new stream plan is being developed. Read More
Posted: June 12, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Applauding the DNR Trout Stream Easement Improvement Team
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.
Last Updated: July 9, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
New Members – June 2019
Welcome New Members
We’re pleased to announce the addition of the following new members to our ranks! Read More
Don’t miss our last Stream Team Workday ‘til Fall
Last Updated: June 16, 2019 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
June 15 2019 – Sugar River (Davidson Wildlife Unit)
We’d love for you to join us. It’s rewarding work that makes a difference. Plus we’ll hit the town for lunch after! Read More
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