Learn your native plants – April
One of the things we’ve heard over the last two years is that once native plant projects are installed, that it can be hard to continue to identify the plants present. Each month, starting [...]
Connecting Our Waters Updates
We are working hard to keep our program running during these uncertain times. The water quality monitoring training we had originally had planned for April has been replaced with one on one training in [...]
2020 Watershed Heroes Impact Awards
Congratulations to our 2020 Watershed Hero Impact Awardees. We appreciate all of our 2020 nominations. The Watershed Hero nomination committee had many worthy candidates to select from. Watershed Hero nominations are open to any [...]
Timberland Invasives Partnership Annual Meeting – February 18th, 2020
The TIP annual meeting was held on Tuesday February 18th at the Legend Lake Lodge. There were around 25 people in attendance. TIP Coordinator Alix Bjorklund kicked the meeting off talking about all the work [...]
The American Marine & Motorsports Boat Show!
Connecting Our Waters, a partnership of the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance and the Waterways Association of Menominee and Shawano Counties, exhibited at the American Marine and Motorsports Boat & Outdoor Sports Extravaganza from February 20 through February 23. We [...]
National Invasive Species Awareness Week: February 24th-28th
The last week of February is the National Invasive Species Awareness Week focused on education, awareness, and planning for the upcoming field season for managers! As part of this awareness week, there are webinars [...]
AIS Spotlight – Spiny and Fishhook Waterflea
Every month, we will put a spotlight on an aquatic invasive species (AIS) in a re-occurring monthly article. Check it out! Since it's February and Valentine's Day is right around the corner, we are [...]
Water Quality Task Force Publishes Recommendations
As Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos created the Task force on Water Quality to gather information and make policy recommendations for the improvement of both ground water and surface water quality in [...]
Wequiock Creek acquisition brings increased access to community, benefiting hunters and students
Staff at the Fish and Wildlife Service are excited to announce funding to increase wetland protections within the Wequiock Creek watershed, a popular birding site in northeastern Wisconsin. This land acquisition will preserve an [...]
Fish Sticks going in at White Clay Lake
White Clay Lake has historically been known as an excellent fishing lake. White Clay Lake feeds into to Mud Lake, to its west, which then continues on to Shawano Lake. In October of 2019, [...]