Webinar: Learn the History, Safety, and Efficacy of the Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Program

As part of Wisconsin Water Week 2023, join the statewide Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Program Coordinator Jeanne Scherer to reflect on the past 30 years of the Biocontrol Program. Learn answers to many of the most common questions about purple loosestrife biocontrol. Is it safe? Is it effective? What about the big bloom of 2022? How can you participate? Watch the webinar live on April 18th, 2023 at 9:00 am. Find the recording of the webinar here.

This webinar is free but requires registration. Visit here to register today!

Interested in other lakes topics? Learn more about local events as well as other virtual opportunities happening as part of the 2023 Wisconsin Water Week, April 17th-21st!

Photo Credit: Paul Skawinski, Chris Acy

Questions? Comments? Contact Chris Acy, the AIS Coordinator covering Brown, Outagamie, Fond du Lac, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties at (920) 460-3674 or chris@fwwa.org!

Follow the Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance’s Winnebago Waterways Program on our Winnebago Waterways Facebook page or @WinnWaterways on Twitter! You can also sign-up for email updates at WinnebagoWaterways.org.

Winnebago Waterways is a Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance program. The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization that identifies and advocates effective policies and actions that protect, restore, and sustain water resources in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.

Check out the Keepers of the Fox Program at https://fwwa.org/watershed-recovery/lower-fox-recovery/

Reporting invasive species is a first step in containing their spread. Maintaining and restoring our waters and landscapes can reduce the impacts even when we don’t have other management options to an invasive species.