On September 15th, we posted a letter explaining recent developments with the Kinni, and the potential involvement of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE).
The River Falls City Council will be meeting on Tuesday, September 27th at 6:30 pm, and the agenda includes an update on the Kinni as well as, we expect, a discussion of the ACOE proposal.
A few members of KinniCC and its partners will attend the meeting in person, and we will be delivering statements supporting the ACOE proposal on behalf of Trout Unlimited and KinniCC.
Bob Luck, TCTU President, will be at the meeting, along with Duke Welter and KIAP-TU-WISH board member Gary Horvath.  We do not feel a large in-person presence is called for at this meeting, but if you would like to see the meeting virtually, you can click here for instructions.
As of now, we expect the actual vote on the ACOE proposal to take place on October 25th.  We’ll keep you posted!

The September edition of the Hotline is here, and it has some great information!  Some of the articles I found particularly interesting were:

• What is happening to Mayfly populations?
• How did a habitat project respond to a large localized flooding event?
• A SE fishing report, fresh off the streams, from the Root River Rod Company

PS If you have something to contribute to the Hotline, please contact editor Carl Berberic

​by Jim Sauter, Streamkeepers Coordinator
Greetings from the TCTU Streamkeepers!  Welcome to the fall season of 2022.
Our stream temperatures are beginning to moderate due to our shorter days and cooler evenings.  On a recent visit to the Kinni, the sun set at about 7:24 pm! 
We recorded stream temperatures in the 52 degrees to 75 degrees range over the last month.  Some additional precipitation in some locations would be helpful, although many streams have recovered nicely from the drought conditions of 2021.

Download the August Edition of the Newsletter from our Friends at the Hiawatha and WinCres Chapters!

The WinCres and Hiawatha chapters  have started to distribute an excellent monthly newsletter called "Southeast MN TU Hotline".  Watch this space for the next edition.  Meanwhile, here is an article from Hotline Editor Carl Berberich that does an excellent job summarizing where we stand with Trout in the Classroom:
The end of Trout-In-the-Classroom (TIC) program for Minnesota??? What??? Say it isn’t so.
I sure was surprised when reading an email from John Lenczewski of MNTU this spring (May 12) asking for TU members to call their state legislature Senate members for support of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) projects. This was because, the Republican controlled Senate was passing its own version of the LCCMR appropriation bill.