Three short presentations include:
1) Effective Town Lakes Committee
Training lake residents in lake & watershed monitoring resulted in discovery of CLP in Harris Lake, its treatment & control, and ultimately creation of lake management plans for each of the 10 most populated lakes in Winchester Township, as well as a town wide lake management plan.
Presenter: Rolf Ethun
2) Hunting Water Hyacinth on the Winnebago Pool Lakes System
Citizen Science and Invasive plant reporting come together when Water Hyacinth is found in a channel off Lake Winneconne. Valerie Stabenow, a Master Gardener from Winnebago County, found numerous Water Hyacinth while conducting an October channel cleanup. With knowledge gained from AIS and Snapshot Day activities, these professional connections made it possible for her to join up with several groups to find and remove Water Hyacinth from Lake Winneconne and the Wolf River. As a Citizen Scientist she continues to assist in preventing Water Hyacinth from spreading in these waterways.
Presenter: Valerie Stabenow
3) Restoring Stony Brook: the Last Trout Stream in Calumet County
This presentation will tell the viewer how Trout Unlimited’s Trout In The Classroom help Chilton High and Middle School students bring together the community, along with state, federal and national organizations and collectively changed the last and abandoned trout stream (for over 20) years in Calumet county into a natural reproducing trout steam. This was done by the collective efforts of Chilton Schools, Fox Valley Trout Unlimited, Water Action Volunteers, Calumet County, The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership, the Fund For Lake Michigan, the WDNR, the NRCS, Landowner's, other contractors and suppliers and Friends of Stony Brook.
Presenter: Joe Bach