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National Recognition for Mr. Dan Kiefer and Clinton River
Dan Keifer Awarded National Distinguished Service Award for Trout Unlimited
Release Date: September 5, 2008 | Download PDF
Dan Keifer, the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Clinton River Watershed Council was recently awarded the National Distinguished Service Award for Trout Unlimited for his efforts towards the Clinton River Watershed Council’s Coldwater Conservation Project. He will accept his award on September 12, 2008 at the Snowbird Resort in Utah. Dan Keifer has been instrumental in sustaining and coordinating efforts in the Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project. He has been an invaluable asset to the Trout Unlimited goals for the project.
Dan has been a mainstay coordinating projects, meetings, and teams of individuals from the four area chapters of Trout Unlimited, partnerships that have grown beyond conservation organizations to local municipalities, county government, and a faith based organization as well as continued support from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Quality.
The Clinton watershed includes three DNR designated trout streams and several more tributaries that are known to harbor trout year-round. There is an established steelhead run in the lower mainstream of the Clinton. The Clinton Valley Chapter TU has invested more than fifteen years toward habitat restoration and improvement projects on Paint Creek, the Clinton's premier designated trout stream tributary.
The Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project has been selected by TU National as a stream improvement project for organizational development and capacity building under the Mott Grant for the Great Lakes region. A project steering committee is in place, which consists of representatives from Trout Unlimited (Challenge, Clinton Valley, Paul H. Young, and Vanguard Chapters), Clinton River Watershed Council, City of Auburn Hills, and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
The Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project teams have accumulated six years of extensive water temperature data measurements and trends, documented six years of water level and flow data, five years of macro invertebrate sampling, physical habitat surveys along the entire length of Paint Creek and the coldwater project section of the Clinton River have been completed, and a Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries assessment study. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources resumed a Brown Trout stocking program for the Clinton River coldwater project section during the past five years and increased annual stocking of Steelhead. Habitat improvements are making a difference as fishing reports and MDNR electro shocking surveys during the past two seasons are supplying information that Brown Trout are now holding over as sizes of catch are far exceeding the planted.
The Clinton River watershed covers 760 square miles through four counties (Macomb, Oakland, Lapeer, and St. Clair). From its headwaters in Springfield Township, the Clinton River travels 80 miles and eventually empties into Lake St. Clair in Harrison Township. Over 1.5 million people live in the watershed’s 60 communities. The CRWC is a non-profit environmental organization that protects, enhances, and celebrates the Clinton River, its watershed, and Lake St. Clair.
Release Date: September 5, 2008 | Download PDF
Dan Keifer, the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Clinton River Watershed Council was recently awarded the National Distinguished Service Award for Trout Unlimited for his efforts towards the Clinton River Watershed Council’s Coldwater Conservation Project. He will accept his award on September 12, 2008 at the Snowbird Resort in Utah. Dan Keifer has been instrumental in sustaining and coordinating efforts in the Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project. He has been an invaluable asset to the Trout Unlimited goals for the project.
Dan has been a mainstay coordinating projects, meetings, and teams of individuals from the four area chapters of Trout Unlimited, partnerships that have grown beyond conservation organizations to local municipalities, county government, and a faith based organization as well as continued support from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Quality.
The Clinton watershed includes three DNR designated trout streams and several more tributaries that are known to harbor trout year-round. There is an established steelhead run in the lower mainstream of the Clinton. The Clinton Valley Chapter TU has invested more than fifteen years toward habitat restoration and improvement projects on Paint Creek, the Clinton's premier designated trout stream tributary.
The Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project has been selected by TU National as a stream improvement project for organizational development and capacity building under the Mott Grant for the Great Lakes region. A project steering committee is in place, which consists of representatives from Trout Unlimited (Challenge, Clinton Valley, Paul H. Young, and Vanguard Chapters), Clinton River Watershed Council, City of Auburn Hills, and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
The Clinton River Coldwater Conservation Project teams have accumulated six years of extensive water temperature data measurements and trends, documented six years of water level and flow data, five years of macro invertebrate sampling, physical habitat surveys along the entire length of Paint Creek and the coldwater project section of the Clinton River have been completed, and a Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries assessment study. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources resumed a Brown Trout stocking program for the Clinton River coldwater project section during the past five years and increased annual stocking of Steelhead. Habitat improvements are making a difference as fishing reports and MDNR electro shocking surveys during the past two seasons are supplying information that Brown Trout are now holding over as sizes of catch are far exceeding the planted.
The Clinton River watershed covers 760 square miles through four counties (Macomb, Oakland, Lapeer, and St. Clair). From its headwaters in Springfield Township, the Clinton River travels 80 miles and eventually empties into Lake St. Clair in Harrison Township. Over 1.5 million people live in the watershed’s 60 communities. The CRWC is a non-profit environmental organization that protects, enhances, and celebrates the Clinton River, its watershed, and Lake St. Clair.
