Annual Fall Tour of Restored Trout Stream Projects
On October 12th Trout Unlimited – Driftless Area Restoration Effort and Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited are hosting the Annual Fall Tour of restored trout streams in Dane and Green County. The tour will start at 9:30 am from the parking lot of the Hyatt Place Madison/Verona (846 Liberty Drive, Verona, WI) and return to the parking lot at/around 3:30 pm. Four stops are planned for the tour.
Badger Mill Creek will be the first stop and is an urban trout stream project in Verona. Sara Rigelman, Park Property Planner with Dane County Parks will be on hand to lead discussion of this site, as well as and the second stop on the Sugar River. The Sugar River site includes a wetland restoration and Mike Engel, Private Lands Biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, will be on-hand to talk about the wetland.
We’ll have lunch (pizza from the Sugar River Pizza Company) at New Glarus Woods State Park before heading west to Hefty Creek where Dan Oele, Fisheries Biologist with the Wisconsin DNR has an active restoration project going on. The tour will conclude on the Kittleson Creek Project where root wads are the main instream habitat practice.
We have a limited number of spaces on the chartered bus, so advanced registration is advised. The cost for transportation and lunch is $10 and can be paid in advance by check or paid the day of the event. Checks can be made out to Trout Unlimited and sent to Jeff Hastings, E7740 Hastings Lane, Westby, WI 54667. You can also contact Jeff for questions at Jeff.Hastings@tu.org, or (608) 606-4158.
(Note that this is the same date as our October meeting, but the two will not overlap.)
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Posted: September 7, 2021 by Drew Kasel
Annual Fall Tour of Restored Trout Stream Projects
On October 12th Trout Unlimited – Driftless Area Restoration Effort and Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited are hosting the Annual Fall Tour of restored trout streams in Dane and Green County. The tour will start at 9:30 am from the parking lot of the Hyatt Place Madison/Verona (846 Liberty Drive, Verona, WI) and return to the parking lot at/around 3:30 pm. Four stops are planned for the tour.
Badger Mill Creek will be the first stop and is an urban trout stream project in Verona. Sara Rigelman, Park Property Planner with Dane County Parks will be on hand to lead discussion of this site, as well as and the second stop on the Sugar River. The Sugar River site includes a wetland restoration and Mike Engel, Private Lands Biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, will be on-hand to talk about the wetland.
We’ll have lunch (pizza from the Sugar River Pizza Company) at New Glarus Woods State Park before heading west to Hefty Creek where Dan Oele, Fisheries Biologist with the Wisconsin DNR has an active restoration project going on. The tour will conclude on the Kittleson Creek Project where root wads are the main instream habitat practice.
We have a limited number of spaces on the chartered bus, so advanced registration is advised. The cost for transportation and lunch is $10 and can be paid in advance by check or paid the day of the event. Checks can be made out to Trout Unlimited and sent to Jeff Hastings, E7740 Hastings Lane, Westby, WI 54667. You can also contact Jeff for questions at Jeff.Hastings@tu.org, or (608) 606-4158.
(Note that this is the same date as our October meeting, but the two will not overlap.)
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