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Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting: Wildlife Safe Method for Manually Removing Invasive Aquatic Plants
(2024)"Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting (D.A.S.H.) has long been used as a method to remove non-native nuisance aquatic plants from around boat docks and swimming areas. But what happens to the creatures that are found in these ... -
Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting: Wildlife Safe Method for Manually Removing Invasive Aquatic Plants
(2024)"Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting (D.A.S.H.) has long been used as a method to remove non-native nuisance aquatic plants from around boat docks and swimming areas. But what happens to the creatures that are found in these ... -
Fish Community Production Responses to a Large-Scale Coarse-Woody Habitat Addition
(2024)"Coarse-woody habitat additions are a common management action to restore degraded shoreline habitat and key food-web processes within aquatic ecosystems. However, several questions remain about the ecosystem effects of ... -
A Primer on the History of Fish Habitat Management in Wisconsin Lakes
(2024)"The importance of habitat has often been overlooked in fisheries management, yet suitable habitat conditions are imperative for the sustainability of fish populations. Essential fish habitat includes suitable water quality ... -
Meet the Algae!
(2024)"Have you thanked algae today for all the things they’ve done for you? Algae support life in our lakes and rivers in their position as the base of aquatic food webs, and they make the oxygen that we breathe. Meet some of ... -
Improving Water Quality Through Community-Led Watershed Management
(2024)"Valley Stewardship Network addresses a widespread need for nutrient and sediment reduction in Southwest Wisconsin streams by supporting farmer and community leadership initiatives and providing technical assistance and ... -
Deep Diving into a Watershed’s True Colors: Using Biological Sensitivity to Common Environmental Pollutants to Help Diagnose the WHY in Stream Ecological Conditions
(2024)"Diatoms and macroinvertebrates have served as a foundation for indicating the ecological condition of freshwater streams for years. Statewide standards for environmental pollutants can serve as an excellent starting point ... -
Climate and Health Impacts in the Great Lakes Region and Wisconsin Perspectives
(2024)"As the climate continues to change the long-term trends in temperature and precipitation, its impacts on public health are significant in the Great Lakes region. Many of these health impacts result from extreme heat and ... -
Aquatic Plant Management in Wisconsin: Past, Present, and Future
(2024)"The way that we view and manage aquatic plants has changed significantly over the last 175 years. This presentation will provide a historical overview of aquatic plant management (APM) in Wisconsin, highlighting key ... -
Future of Agriculture and Water in the Yahara Region
(2024)"Competing demands for land and water resources challenge decision processes in many urbanizing agricultural areas of the Upper Midwest, including the Yahara watershed of Dane County, Wisconsin. Rising precipitation, ... -
Ashippun Lake Wake Study Update
(2024)"During the summer of 2023, the Ashippun Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District, in coordination with Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, concluded a study of wake boat impacts on this small Southeast ... -
Wake Boat Impacts on a Small Southeast Wisconsin Lake
(2024)"During the summer of 2023, the Ashippun Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District, in coordination with Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, concluded a study of wake boat impacts on this small Southeast ... -
Wake Assessment at Three Water Bodies in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri
(2024)"Natural and man-made waves play an important part of managing shorelines in lakes and riverine environments with a high degree of recreational activity. In this presentation, we will present findings of wave and wake ... -
Volunteer Acoustic Bat Monitoring Project
(2024)"The acoustic bat monitoring project started as a grassroots effort in 2007 and has evolved into an annual past time for many volunteers that enjoy surveying their favorite waterway. We’ll discuss the basics of bat biology ... -
Wisconsin’s Wolf Monitoring Program
(2024)"Over the past 45 years, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has monitored the state’s dynamic wolf population. We will discuss these monitoring techniques and how the department has incorporated the use of trained ... -
An Overview of the Major Determinants of Stream and River Health
(2024)"There is an intimate relationship between land and water resources. Protecting groundwater, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands requires wise land use. Human population growth, climate change, and changes in land use ... -
Update on Surface Water PFAS Results in Wisconsin
(2024)"Recent perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) surface water results will be discussed and put into context with previous statewide sampling from both lakes and rivers. Along with statewide trends, findings ... -
Health Benchmarks for Lakes: Our Path to the Present
(2024)"Assessing the health of Wisconsin’s lakes is a key component of DNR’s monitoring work. This talk will take a look back at how our assessments for lakes have evolved over time, leading to legislation that was just passed ... -
The History, Process, and Health Benefits of Wisconsin Maple Syrup!
(2024)"A short history and overview of Wisconsin maple syrup, as well as feature maple syrup 101 basics. Attendees can learn how to make and bottle real Wisconsin maple syrup and what can cause off flavors in maple syrup. Join ... -
Friday Confluence: Critical and Creative Thinking About Our Waters
(2024)"Friday Confluence: Critical and Creative Thinking About Our Waters Con flu encephalitis (noun) : a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point We were joined by rural storytellers/authors Jerry ...
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