PUBLIC BOAT LANDING MONITORS
All monitoring supplies and information including the watercraft inspection sheet (questions to ask boaters) are in the CBCW tub that you'll take with you. Kay will send out an email reminder prior to your shift.
The schedule is posted below, so check for available dates/times and email us to sign up berrylakewi@gmail.com.
Thanks!
SUMMER SCHEDULE 2023:
Every Tuesday June 5 -September 5 from 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Mike and Jen M
Every Tuesday June 5 -September 5 from 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Mike and Jen M
INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEER REPORTS - In addition to volunteering @ our landing, please also keep track of all family members who pull weeds this summer.
The WDNR now requires that volunteer hours be submitted individually for each person/family member that performs any AIS activity (like pulling weeds around your dock). These forms should be turned into the BLPOA at the end of summer so that they can be recorded, and so that we're credited for all volunteer hours.
View and/or download the form below.
The WDNR now requires that volunteer hours be submitted individually for each person/family member that performs any AIS activity (like pulling weeds around your dock). These forms should be turned into the BLPOA at the end of summer so that they can be recorded, and so that we're credited for all volunteer hours.
View and/or download the form below.
volunteer_hours_sheet_2023.pdf | |
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CITIZEN LAKE MONITORING PROCEDURE
Click here to view several videos from the UWEX on how to interact with boaters @ the boat landing.
The BLPOA will now be monitoring and reporting all sightings of aquatic invasives here (our main focus at this time is with EWM and Zebra mussels) through the SWIMS site of the UWEX...and just as the BLPOA receives credit for all volunteer hours spent monitoring our boat landing to use towards grant money, we will also be eligible through volunteer hours spent looking for and documenting/reporting AIS.
Refer to the photos below of the good (Northern milfoil) and the bad (EWM)
Refer to the photos below of the good (Northern milfoil) and the bad (EWM)
- Carefully collect/inspect/remove a plant sample (remember that fragments can re-root and start again).
- If the plant has 12 or more pairs of leaflets, if the plant is limp when pulled out of the water, if the stems appear reddish, and if in the late summer/early autumn the plant does not have turions (winter buds) and/or the leaf whorls are several inches apart …it may be the “bad” EWM.
- If the plant has 12 or fewer pairs of leaflets, if the leaves are rigid when pulled out of the water, if the stems are green (only reddish hues on the newest growth), if the plant has formed turions (winter buds) in late summer/early autumn…it is most likely the “good” northern milfoil.
- Anytime that you are out monitoring/sampling/looking for EWM…report the date, the number of volunteers, and the amount of hours that you spent doing so, as we will get credit to put towards our grant.