The Lakeshore chapter of Trout Unlimited is an all volunteer organization that was founded in 1983 and serves Kewanee, Calumet, Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties. With 130 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 purview of stewardship commitments.
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. The overarching purpose of which is to reestablish self sustaining wild trout populations throughout the area’s cold water streams with improved water quality, flow and habitat for trout.
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.
- Garner and cultivate the human, financial, legal and natural resources needed to successfully complete our mission.
- 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.
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.
Organizational structure: LSTU chapter will utilize a flat, entrepreneurial organizational structure best for managing multiple project based activities. Regulated functions such as safety, fund raising, legal, financial, permitting, grant writing, regulatory compliance & reporting will be centralized within the officer duties of the chapter. The elected Officer positions will consist of President, Vice president, Secretary and Treasurer along with an elected Board of Trustees. This approach will create an umbrella that will support the day-to-day and project activities of multiple organizational initiatives. Action teams will be formed that will best achieve our strategic objectives. They include:
- River keepers: LSTU will utilize a “Stream champion” construct from the membership who will create a detailed plan for permit approval, garner & manage resources and execute the steps for completion of a stream project. With this approach, simultaneous projects can be undertaken by individual river keeper teams limited only by manpower and financial resources.
- Youth programs: This key initiative is critical to LSTU’s and conservancy’s future success. LSTU believes that we have a responsibility in getting youth interested in nature and are the greatest resource we have to nurture and develop.
- Membership recruitment & appreciation: LSTU is nothing without our members. It is those dedicated men and women that make the chapter successful. This team is charged with creating a welcoming environment and developing a diverse membership.
- Veteran’s Programs: LSTU supports the Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) is an initiative of TU's to serve veterans, active duty military and their families by engaging them through the recreational therapy of angling and with the sustaining support of the TU community.
- Women anglers: A more diverse membership and leadership profile will better enable the organization to more effectively represent the angling community and to do the best possible, most complete conservation work.
- Communications: - Marketing/Newsletter/webmasters: The communications team is tasked with getting LSTU’s message out to the community.
- Fundraisers: While LSTU prides itself on volunteer hours to get the job done, money is needed for materials, training and tooling. Fundraisers are critical to achieve the group’s mission.
Mission: Our mission is to conserve, protect and restore the coldwater fisheries and watersheds within LSTU’s purview of stewardship commitments.
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. The overarching purpose of which is to reestablish self sustaining wild trout populations throughout the area’s cold water streams with improved water quality, flow and habitat for trout.
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.
- Garner and cultivate the human, financial, legal and natural resources needed to successfully complete our mission.
- 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.
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.
Organizational structure: LSTU chapter will utilize a flat, entrepreneurial organizational structure best for managing multiple project based activities. Regulated functions such as safety, fund raising, legal, financial, permitting, grant writing, regulatory compliance & reporting will be centralized within the officer duties of the chapter. The elected Officer positions will consist of President, Vice president, Secretary and Treasurer along with an elected Board of Trustees. This approach will create an umbrella that will support the day-to-day and project activities of multiple organizational initiatives. Action teams will be formed that will best achieve our strategic objectives. They include:
- River keepers: LSTU will utilize a “Stream champion” construct from the membership who will create a detailed plan for permit approval, garner & manage resources and execute the steps for completion of a stream project. With this approach, simultaneous projects can be undertaken by individual river keeper teams limited only by manpower and financial resources.
- Youth programs: This key initiative is critical to LSTU’s and conservancy’s future success. LSTU believes that we have a responsibility in getting youth interested in nature and are the greatest resource we have to nurture and develop.
- Membership recruitment & appreciation: LSTU is nothing without our members. It is those dedicated men and women that make the chapter successful. This team is charged with creating a welcoming environment and developing a diverse membership.
- Veteran’s Programs: LSTU supports the Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) is an initiative of TU's to serve veterans, active duty military and their families by engaging them through the recreational therapy of angling and with the sustaining support of the TU community.
- Women anglers: A more diverse membership and leadership profile will better enable the organization to more effectively represent the angling community and to do the best possible, most complete conservation work.
- Communications: - Marketing/Newsletter/webmasters: The communications team is tasked with getting LSTU’s message out to the community.
- Fundraisers: While LSTU prides itself on volunteer hours to get the job done, money is needed for materials, training and tooling. Fundraisers are critical to achieve the group’s mission.
