Clean Boats/Clean Waters Schedule - email berrylakewi@gmail.com to volunteer
LET'S BE PROACTIVE - VOLUNTEER FOR THE GOOD OF BERRY LAKE
If you are able to volunteer an hour or two of your time this summer to monitor our boat landing, please email berrylakewi@gmail.com with your date/time preferences and I'll add you to this list. Not all Saturdays and Sundays are filled, and there are a lot more time slots available on any given day throughout the summer.
All monitoring supplies and information including the watercraft inspection sheet of questions to ask boaters are in the CBCW tub that you'll take with you. I'll send out an email reminder prior to your shift. Return the tub to my porch after your shift or pass on to the next volunteers if they're scheduled immediately after your shift.
Thank you, Kay
If you are able to volunteer an hour or two of your time this summer to monitor our boat landing, please email berrylakewi@gmail.com with your date/time preferences and I'll add you to this list. Not all Saturdays and Sundays are filled, and there are a lot more time slots available on any given day throughout the summer.
All monitoring supplies and information including the watercraft inspection sheet of questions to ask boaters are in the CBCW tub that you'll take with you. I'll send out an email reminder prior to your shift. Return the tub to my porch after your shift or pass on to the next volunteers if they're scheduled immediately after your shift.
Thank you, Kay
2018 SCHEDULE
The following dates/times are scheduled this year, and we need more volunteers throughout the summer (especially on weekends). Please email me with your preferences and I'll update the schedule below. Remember also to forward me any time you spend pulling weeds around your docks, as it will count towards our volunteer hours. Thanks much!
The following dates/times are scheduled this year, and we need more volunteers throughout the summer (especially on weekends). Please email me with your preferences and I'll update the schedule below. Remember also to forward me any time you spend pulling weeds around your docks, as it will count towards our volunteer hours. Thanks much!
- Monday, Aug 6th 9:00-10:00 AM - Connie M
- Monday, Sept 3rd 10:00-11:00 AM - Dave K
CITIZEN LAKE MONITORING PROCEDURE
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.
Click on the link below to view a Power Point presentation on Invasives and the Clean Boats/Clean Waters campaign, or
VISIT THE UWEX'S WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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