Our habitat workdays typically involve various activities at sites where we are doing a stream restoration project during the spring and summer months, or in the winter we may brush and burn streamside invasives.

A typical work day is usually conducted on a Saturday morning. Sometimes food and beverage may be provided.

From time-to-time we also will participate in Earth Day stream clean-up days on the Rush and Kinnickinnic rivers.

Please contact Randy Arnold, Volunteer Coordinator for Kiap-TU-Wish at: volunteer@kiaptuwish.org.

You can also sign up to be on the workday email list by clicking the button on this page and entering your information.

Kiap-TU-Wish gets most of its funds for stream restoration projects by writing numerous grant proposals to various public, private, and governmental organizations. Most grants awarded are from $1,000 to $25,000. Most restoration projects range from $75,000 to $250,000 in total cost.

Grant writing isn’t necessarily hard, but it does take quite a bit of time for each project. Our chapter typically does one project at a time, and each project typically takes from
1-3 years to accomplish.

If you have any grant writing experience (or would like to learn), please contact one of our board members or email us at info@kiaptuwish.org. 

Every summer, Kiap-TU-Wish sponsors and runs a fly fishing clinic dedicated to teaching the art of fly fishing for those that are 12 years of age and older. This clinic is typically at a stream side location in River Falls and the surrounding area.

To be successful, two things need to happen: We need to have good discussion as the topics are presented and we need a group of mentors to provide expertise throughout the day.  It would be great if we had eight or more volunteers.

If you have an interest and want to discuss how you may help, please contact one of our board members or email us at info@kiaptuwish.org. 

The Hap Lutter Memorial Spring appeal is one of our chapter’s major fundraisers. The Spring appeal is the annual mailer sent to all members and friends of Kiap-TU-Wish asking for donations.

Volunteering needs for the Spring appeal consists of a variety of things from writing the letter, to design of the letter and envelope, coordination of the mail list and printing, to stamp licking. Not hard work, but work none the less. This is just one way you can help our chapter with a little bit of your time. 

If you are interested, please contact one of our board members or email us at info@kiaptuwish.org. 

Kiap-TU-Wish sends out an almost monthly printed newsletter called “RipRap,” and has a robust Website, Newsletter, Facebook and Instagram page. We need volunteers to write articles, poetry, art and photography submissions—just to name a few skills.

Our chapter is always looking for:

Story contributors

• Social media contributors
• Photography
• Art and photography
• Graphic design
• Web editors
• Stamp lickers for RipRap
• Help with the mailing list

If you have any of these skills and would like to contribute, please contact one of our board members or email us at info@kiaptuwish.org. 

Caring for the fish (raised in classrooms) fosters a conservation ethic in the students, and the act of walking to a stream bank and directly releasing the fingerlings into the water makes a concrete connection between caring for the fish and caring for the water.

If you would like to help out with Trout in the Classroom, please contact one of our board members or email us info@kiaptuwish.org.