Our Five Year Plan

The Lakeshore chapter of Trout Unlimited is an all volunteer organization that was founded in 1983 and serves Kewaunee, Calumet, Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties. With 189 members, the LSTU organization has a rich history and is an active leader in the conservation community creating and caring for multi-use resource areas for future generations.

Mission: 

Our mission is to conserve, protect and restore the coldwater fisheries and watersheds within LSTU’s four county area and promote outdoor awareness and conservation to our youth.
 
Vision: 

The Lakeshore Trout Unlimited chapter will partner with the local division of the Wisconsin DNR in the stewardship of the area’s cold water fisheries in order to reestablish and maintain self sustaining wild trout populations throughout the area’s cold water streams. We will also partner with local youth organizations and schools to deliver programs that build interest, knowledge and passion for cold-water conservation, the outdoors and fishing in our youth.  
 
Strategies: 

  • Actively promote local conservation awareness and educational efforts to increase understanding and participation in watershed stewardship.
  • Building organizational membership and engaging youth in conservation efforts.
  • Actively seek out partnerships with established organizations, events and schools to bring fishing and conservation programs like Trout in the Classroom and STREAM Camps to kids in our area. 
  • Create partnerships with federal, state, local and other non-government conservation organizations which can assist in carrying out our mission.
  • Partner with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to harness their regulatory and permitting guidance and ecosystem expertise.
  • Actively undertake restoration and rehabilitation projects which protect, repair, improve and maintain cold water fisheries in its stewardship area.
  • Encourage the adoption of appropriate regulations and limitations on trout fishing that conserve and enlarge the wild trout fishery and expand the opportunity to fish for native trout.
  • Garner and cultivate the human, financial, legal and natural resources needed to successfully complete our mission.
Core values that guide our efforts ensuring that we stay true to our ideals:
  • Self sustaining wild-trout streams are our heritage and we have an obligation to pass these on to future generations in better shape than when we received them.  
  • We operate through collaboration and partnership with other like minded individuals and groups to create innovative and entrepreneurial solutions. 
  • We are non-partisan in our pursuit of our mission and we believe that through sound science coupled with hard work we will achieve our goals. 
  • We believe in transparency in all of our dealings 
  • We are optimists and believe in building a better future for our children.

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