project brief
This multi-year project restored trout habitat along 7,700 feet of Wisconsin's Blue River by improving streambanks, installing log deflectors, reducing erosion, and enhancing the riparian zone, with funding from FishAmerica and the Brunswick Foundation.
Harry and Laura Nohr Chapter of Trout Unlimited Chapter 257
Blue River, WI
Award
$ 25,000
Funding Start Date
Dec 1, 2019
Funding End Date
Sep 30, 2020
Funding Partner
Project Objectives
Project Description
This project on the Blue River, WI, a class II trout stream, will restore trout habitat on a stretch of river with stream bank easements allowing for public access by installing 69 log deflectors and 2 backwater hooks, reduce erosion and siltation, and make improvements to the riparian zone by cutting back slopes, anchoring edges, and eliminating heavy overhead weed tree cover.
The project is already designed and permitting is started. Funding is for the first year of a 2-year project on this stretch of river that will improve 7,700 feet of streambank. FishAmerica funding was in conjunction with the Brunswick Foundation. Funds were used for supplies – stone, seed, and mulch – and contractual heavy equipment. A multi-year effort, this project was funded in 2019 and completed in 2022.
