What is the Driftless Area Restoration Effort?

 

The Driftless Area Restoration Effort, DARE, spearheaded by Trout Unlimited, is a geographically-focused, locally-driven, consensus-based effort to protect, restore, and enhance rivers and streams for fish and other aquatic life throughout the Driftless Area. This is a broad partnership of federal, state, and local government, landowners, academic institutions, conservation organizations, sportsmens' groups, and other interested parties. This coalition of partners is working together to prioritize watershed focus areas and projects, implement actions with measurable sucesses, build new partnerships and strengthen existing ones, leverage additional funds, and raise public awareness about Driftless Area natural resources through outreach and education.

The DARE fish habitat partnership was formed in late fall of 2005 to jointly address the issues of habitat degradation, loss and alteration of coldwater streams and coolwater/warmwater rivers.                  

Mission: Working together to protect, restore and enhance cold, cool, and warmwater streams for fish and other aquatic communities in the Driftless Area region for future generations

Healthy streams, 
Diverse aquatic life,
Happy people

Driftless Area Initiatives

Watershed Project, Plans & Assessments
in the Driftless Area

National Fish Habitat
Action Plan Partnerships