Thanks to our guest speaker, Kasey Yallaly of the Wisconsin DNR, who talked about some innovative work on one of Western Wisconsin's most beautiful streams.  Cady Creek was traditionally a brook trout stream, but there has been a dramatic increase in brown trout over the past 15 years, at the expense of the brookies.  Kasey described a project to remove brown trout, and the effect on the brook trout population.  To view the video on YouTube click here (don't forget to subscribe).  To download Kasey's slides, click below.

by Jim Sauter
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Greetings from TCTU Streamkeepers.
Recently we formed a TCTU Streamkeeper Task Force to develop plans for our stream monitoring efforts during the 2024 season.  The recommendations were presented and approved by our Board of Directors at our February meeting.  

An overview of our recommendations are as follows:

Free Secchi Tubes are available for measuring water quality from the MPCA.  You’ll need to create an account on the MPCA e-Services page, and there’s a PDF instruction guide on this website to walk you through the enrollment process.  Here’s the link to the program enrollment page: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/get-engaged/find-a-site-and-sign-up.

• Use e-Services to register.
• Instruction guide for enrolling as a new volunteer (wq-s1-85b)