UPDATE: Despite the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturning Governor Ever’s extended stay-at-home order, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources advises groups to suspend Clean Boats, Clean Waters activities until June 1st and adhere to the [...]
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 [...]
The Wisconsin DNR recently released a report that provides a summary of results from their 2019 bottom trawling surveys in Lake Winnebago. According to Adam Nickel, Senior Fisheries Biologist, "The trawl assessment provides year [...]
Proposed Habitat Restoration Projects on the Horizon for Lake Butte des Morts OSHKOSH, Wis. - The Butte des Morts Conservation Club, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Purple loosestrife is an exotic perennial weed invading wetlands, shorelines, and roadside ditches across the Midwest. After introduction to North America in the early 1800s, purple loosestrife likely traveled to the Great Lakes region [...]
Shawano Area Waterways Management is working with the Department of Natural Resources, Shawano County, WAMSCO, and Connecting Our Waters in an effort to add rain gardens and native plants to property owner’s shorelines. The [...]
