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In 2015 and 2016, the authors collected data from 48 of the 54 forest stands surveyed in 1968–69. Stands were dominated by transitional forest of northern hardwoods. Their survey depicts a forest that is trending to a later successional stage of development and recovering from the cutover from the early 20th century. Future threats to…

The vascular plants of the Bois Brule River watershed are listed, and over 160 years of change in plant communities observed is described. The diverse landscape supports boreal forest, northern mesic forest, northern wet-mesic forest, pine barrens, and other forested and non-forested communities. Five generalized changes in the watershed were noted: (i) the pine barrens…

Matthew Mitro and John Lyons of the Wisconsin DNR and Jana Stewart of the U. S. Geological Survey recently modeled the effects of changing climate on Wisconsin trout. They concluded that stream temperature is the most important factor determining where trout can live and cannot live. A warming climate will affect the distribution of trout in…

We received some great news from Ben Hlina, a past scholarship recipient. Ben recently published a paper resulting from his graduate work concerning lampricide effectiveness. You can read the paper by clicking on Hlina et al. 2017.

In 1991, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fishery biologists prepared a document summarizing the current understanding of Brule River steelhead biology. Anglers who provided their mailing address during a 1990 steelhead season creel census received the resulting document. This was the initial effort by fisheries managers to educate anglers regarding needed regulatory changes leading to…

Researchers at the Lake Superior Research Institute University of Wisconsin Superior recently completed Phase I of a study of the plant communities of the Brule River watershed (1852, 1944, and 2016), comparing data from 2 earlier studies with their current findings. The first part of the Phase I study focused on changes in species richness,…

Although a bit dated, this publication from the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters summarizes the basic research that has been used to formulate management strategies for trout habitat and beaver control in the river.  Click on Brule Fishery History to read the article. This article downloads as a pdf files that require Adobe® Reader®.…

Anyone who likes reading about the “good old days” might enjoy this article from the Evening Telegram in April 1895. To read the article, click on Fishing on the Brule. This article was found in some of the historical information in the Brule DNR basement. Interesting stuff! This article downloads as a pdf files that…

Researchers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have just published a comparative study of the reproductive success of wild fish and first-generation hatchery fish from a smolt stocking program that used broodstock from within the naturalized steelhead population in Minnesota’s Knife River, a tributary to Lake Superior. To read the abstract from the study…

History of the Brule River Sportsmen’s Club Aquarium Project By Dennis Smet In the summer of 2000, Al Pribnow, a Brule River Sportsmen’s Club board member, came to a board meeting with information on salmon hatching projects that were taking place on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada. As a middle school science teacher at Central Middle…