• Date: March 3, 2022
  Time: 9:45am - 4:00pm
  Location: Online
  IA

There's something incredibly special about the waters of the Driftless region, and it isn't the density or quality of trout finning in the currents or the streamside grasses waving in the breeze.

What truly makes the Driftless special is the army of scientists, restoration specialists and nonprofit and agency partners working to study, care for and recover these fabled streams.

Join Trout Unlimited's Driftless Area Restoration Effort (TU DARE) staff and volunteers for an important two day virtual symposium on February 23 and March 3 featuring some of the most powerful and important voices in the partnership we have built to conduct this work.

Each day will feature nine experts - scientists, conservation specialists and TU volunteers - speaking for 20 minutes on their research and projects. By joining in you’re sure to learn new insights about the science behind the conservation work taking place, the ways you can connect to make a bigger impact and you might just pick up a tip or two on new rivers to fish this spring!

The symposium is FREE to attend, although donations to TU and the TU DARE Workgroup are much appreciated!

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Day 2 Agenda:

9:45 - Opening Remarks: TU Driftless Area Restoration Effort

Jeff Hastings

10:00 - Incorporating Nongame Habitat In Stream Projects

Mike Majeski

10:30 - Use of dogs for the early detection of New Zealand mudsnails in the Driftless

Ellen Voss

11:00 - Driftless Water Quality App

Kent, Dan, Carter

11:30 - Beaver influence on Driftless trout streams in Wisconsin

Matt Mitro

12:00 - Lunch Break

1:00 - Pierce and Dunn County Brook Trout Habitat Project Updates-Plum and Wilson Creek

Kasey Yallaly

1:30 - ERO: optimized velocity and volume to scour sand from low gradient streams

Loren Hass & Nate Anderson

2:00 - Wild South Pine Brook Trout

Mike Siepker

2:30 - Can Satellites Detect Coldwater Streams : Lessons from the Driftless region, Iowa

Niti Mishra

3:00 - Brook Trout population response to Brown Trout removal in Maple Dale Creek, WI

Kirk Olson

3:30 - Monitoring the response of stream temperature to restoration in a small Driftless Area stream with a drone, precision GPS, and temperature probes

Ben Sellers

4:00 - Closing Remarks:

TU Driftless Area Restoration Effort

Jeff Hastings

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Register for free here.