https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/uow-fp111714.php

"In their search, UW researchers tested six different endophytes from cottonwood and willow varieties" quote from article.

I made this a separate topic because it definitely sheds a new light on why Mother Nature put cottonwoods and willows along our streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands.

A little knowledge everyone doing stream restoration needs to know.

WHITE ADMIRAL wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2018 at 10:04am:


"Mother Nature" is not the only entity to put willows along streams and rivers.  Homo sapiens placed willows along waterways in northern WI. back in the Depression Era days of the 1930s (A.D.) with the good intentions of shading streams and producing better thermal regimes.  Trouble was, those willows were not native to the region.  The results were that the willows grew fast and then toppled over into the waterways, slowing stream flows, clogging the stream systems and causing thermal regimes in said streams to rise.  Now, DNR fishery crews are removing the fallen willows from streams to restore normal stream flows and to wash out accumulated silt and detritus.  Since it is not kosher to name streams on this site, some streams where this restoration activity - funded by conservation funds (Inland Trout Stamp revenues, TU donations, etc.) - is occurring are in Oconto County north of Suring and in Lincoln County northeast of Merrill.

"The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay." - Robert Burns  

Chiro   

"Which is why I dislike Brown Trout with such fervor."

You must only fish brook trout in the tributaries of the Great Lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin because brook trout are not native to the Mississippi River watershed in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

How do like the salmon and rainbow trout in the Great Lakes??

NativeBrookie wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2018 at 11:57pm:


I wish there were more brown trout.

Sasquatch wrote on Apr 24^th, 2018 at 9:15am:



USGS Non-indigenous Aquatic Species working group says they're native as well...

https://nas.er.usgs.gov/viewer/GetStaticMap.aspxcache=true&region=us&width=700&h...

https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=939

Jizzy Pearl wrote on Apr 24^th, 2018 at 9:10am:

Where?  Certainly not in brookie streams I hope.  I realize they're here to stay, but current brookie strongholds and areas that could be brookie strongholds should receive high priority.

If it's more brown trout you want, a plain ride to Europe is all you need.

NativeBrookie wrote on Apr 24^th, 2018 at 10:53am:


In all my favorite WI water that I fish!!!

A guy can only take catching so many 7" brook trout all day long!!!   

I'd generally prefer the native brook trout.  I suspect that they could get bigger if the regs were better, and if they didn't have browns to compete with.   I don't mind browns terribly, probably because most of the places I fish don't have them.  I really think that the natives should be favored by regs and stream work.  I will never like those $%#@ lunker structures on northwoods freestone streams.  I could tolerate them if they left some space between them so the fish could drop back to feed on insects, but when they are linked together like a chain, I don't believe they look anything like the northern rivers ever looked.  I also very much dislike that the most famous river in the north has regulations that are designed to allow all of the browns and rainbows to spawn at least once, and MOST of the brook trout to do the same.  And, then there is the meager support for reviving the coasters.  So much is done for natives in the smokies and in the west.  Why do they get treated like a poor cousin around here?