Minnesota Trout Unlimited

CLEAN WATER CONSERVATION HAPPENS HERE

All of Minnesota Trout Unlimited's board members support the organization financially. This year, these volunteer leaders have pooled their pledges into a challenge match for the community. Your gift will be matched 100% until $15,000 is donated. Give today to ensure your impact is doubled!

Support our mission

Everything we do centers around cold, clean water. Minnesota Trout Unlimited (MNTU) works to protect, restore and sustain trout fisheries and their watersheds.

We represent several thousand members and five chapters in Minnesota. Through our advocacy work, habitat restoration and education programs, we turn your charitable gifts into conservation results.

Protect

Our advocacy work pushes for policies that better protect trout fisheries. Protecting coldwater fisheries protects us all. That’s because policies that safeguard indicator species, like trout, benefits entire ecosystems and ecosystem health is directly connected to human health.

Our work confronts agriculture practices causing nitrate contamination in surface and groundwater. We continue to advocate for the regulation of neonicotinoids insecticides because of their harmful impact on aquatic insects that form the base of the food web for trout fisheries. We also speak up when proposed hyperscale data centers could affect trout watersheds.

Restore

With help from our partners, we have restored more than 150 miles of trout stream habitat around the state, from the North Shore to the Driftless Area. And in the last few years, we have removed 22 fish passage barriers in northeast Minnesota, restoring access to 22 miles of cold habitat for trout. We also restore North Shore streamside forests. Since 2025, we have planted thousands of long-lived native trees along key trout streams where a spruce budworm outbreak left stands spruce and balsam fir dead or dying. The trees we planted will provide shade to keep trout rivers cool, while increasing climate resilience to coldwater habitat.

Sustain

Education and outreach are a priority for MNTU because the future of conservation depends on today’s youth. Our Trout in the Classroom program connects young people with nature by getting them in streams and raising trout in the classroom while they learn about watersheds, ecology and environmental stewardship. This school year, we have 74 fish tanks in 58 schools and two nature centers around the state.

Donor support has made all these results possible. Thank you for caring about cold, clean water.

For more information, please visit mntu.org.