Stories of Grandma Trout - Buy a book for a Driftless region classroom

It is never too early to introduce children to the outdoors and conservation.  The children’s book “Stories of Grandma Trout: Tell me a Story Grandma” describes the historic struggle for survival of native brook trout in the Driftless region in the face of beaver trapping, logging, agriculture, overfishing, and non-native species told as an oral history by a grandmother trout to her fingerling granddaughter.  Set on Wisconsin’s Lowery Creek, the pair of trout are observed by two children fishing with their grandfather, who explains projects to improve trout habitat.  “Stories of Grandma Trout” was written by Trout Unlimited member Bill Lamberson and illustrated by Krystal Welter, wife of Driftless legend Duke Welter, and will be available from Green Writers Press summer 2026. Author royalties will be donated to Trout Unlimited. 
Distribution of the books to second grade classrooms in the Driftless region is the objective of an Embrace-a-Stream grant by the Mid-Missouri chapter of TU in partnership with Driftless region chapters.  Though the book project was deemed meritorious and received partial funding, a financial shortfall in the EAS program this year left us well short of our goal of distributing two books to each of 300 classrooms in the region.  With several other EAS projects facing similar shortfalls, Trout Unlimited has developed the “Give Where You Fish” program, which allows donors to target contributions to a specific EAS project from during a short window from December 1-7, 2025 (https://go.tulocalevents.org/easchallenge25/t/midmissouri).  Each $20 donation to “Stories of Grandma Trout” will provide two books, one for a teacher and one for the classroom, plus access to education materials on native brook trout, aquatic insects, aquatic mammals, and geology of the Driftless, designed to accompany topics addressed in this children’s story.
In addition, each donation will enter the donor into a drawing for an Abel TR native trout fly reel valued at $1,075. Help us educate the next generation about trout conservation: donate December 1-7 in support of this Mid-Missouri Chapter EAS project!

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