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FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS...whether you pull weeds along your shorelines or help us monitor incoming boaters at our landing, your time will count towards future funding/grants for aquatic invasive species control.
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PUBLIC BOAT LANDING MONITORS - Please help us to monitor incoming boaters and spread the word about invasive species.
Please consider volunteering an hour or two or your time this summer. 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. I'll send out an email reminder prior to your shift.
A schedule will be posted here and kept updated.
INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEER EFFORTS - 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.
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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.
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