Our shoreline restoration and erosion control tour is quickly approaching! The tour takes place on August 27th from 5:30-7:30 pm. Menominee County has worked to get us three pontoons to take around the lake to visit cost-share [...]
Shawano County Land Conservation Department, Waterways Association of Menominee and Shawano Counties, and Connecting Our Waters are hosting a shoreline restoration workshop on July 30th, 2019 from 6-7:30 at Whispering Pines Retreat (W5335 Lake [...]
As part of a partnership between the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, Shawano County, and the Timberland Invasives Partnership (TIP), work is being completed to control Japanese knotweed in Shawano County. Japanese knotweed is an invasive [...]
The Waterways Association of Menominee and Shawano Counties (WAMSCO) held their annual meeting on May 11th at the Belle Plaine Town Hall. The WAMSCO board put together a stellar line up of talks for [...]
Watershed Coordinator Emily Henrigillis and AIS Coordinator Anna Bartsch have just completed making the rounds to seven lake group meetings over the course of nine days. On Saturday May 25th, 2019 we started the day at [...]
Every year the sturgeon move up the Wolf River to spawn and every year the sturgeon guard heads out to make sure the ancient fish make it safely. Volunteers sign up prior to the [...]
Connecting Our Waters conducted a survey focused on waterfront property owners whom have completed shoreline restoration projects. Almost all the people interviewed added an area of native plants to the edge of their waterfront [...]
Connecting Our Waters attended the 39th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Aquatic Plant Management Society (MAPMS). Watershed Coordinator, Emily Henrigillis, gave a talk on building organizational capacity through social media. While a different topic than most the talks at [...]
On February 21, 2019, Shawano County UW-Extension hosted the 2019 Shawano County Forage Council and Midwest Forage Association Meeting & Educational Program at the Main Event in Cecil, WI. The event kicked off with [...]
On February 26th, the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance’s AIS Coordinator (AISC) for Shawano and Menominee Counties attended the Timberland Invasives Partnership Annual (TIP) Meeting. The Timberland Invasives Partnership is a Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) encompassing Langlade, Menominee, Oconto and Shawano [...]
