What is the Healthy Lakes Program? (general overview of the program)

Grant Application Process for Healthy Lakes (who is eligible, how to apply, etc.)

Shoreland Restoration (How to start, permits, plant choices, maintenance, etc.)

Benefits and how to get more participation from riparian and memberships.

Watershed and stormwater management (nutrient loading)

Learn about what farmers are doing to protect lakes and natural resources

How to create a natural spawning habitat (fish, herpetology, insects, and other wildlife, etc.)

Policy and Politics overview

Hear from current state elected officials

Hear from locally elected municipal officials

Hear from county supervisors/committees members

Regulation changes and new proposed legislation

Changes to Chapter 30

Legal Speaker (Environmentally Focused Attorney)

Hear from local political leaders during election year re: support for lakes in Madison

Public Trust Doctrine (Overview, challenges, and who owns actually owns the water, etc.)

Column 10

Aquatic plant management (chemical, equipment, permits, etc.)

Aquatic Identification Class (Fish, Plant, Macro invertebrates, mussels, etc.)

Conducting aquatic surveys (game fish, nearshore fisheries, aquatic plant point intercept, etc.)

Water Regulations: Piers

Water Regulations: Dams

Water Regulations: Dredging

Harmful vs non harmful algae (how to identify, what to do when a bloom happens, etc.)

Water Quality Standards (E. coli, Secchi Disk, and etc.)

Lake science: limnology and eutrophication

Aquatic Invasive Species (where are they, identification, management strategies, etc.)

DNR Grants Options (Surface Water, CBCW, AIS, etc.)

SWIMS Database

Citizen Lake Monitoring Network

Water quality trading/phosphorus credits

Results of the barley straw experiment in Whitewater

What is happening to our lakes ice coverage?

Shoreland Zoning

Walworth County Permits

DNR Permits

Septic Systems (Regulations, inspections requirements, Etc.)

Testing your homes well (who, what, where when and how)

What is Walworth County Human and Health services doing? (Ticks Drags, Water Testing, etc.)

Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (Standards, regulations, where are they discharging to)

Recreational boating carrying capacity (what is too much, how to conduct a boat count, what is currently in place)

Enhanced Wake Activity

Ordinance Development and enforcement (what can be done, who can enforce, challenges, etc.)

DNR Boat Patrol Grants (Who, how and why to apply, etc.)

AIS Decontamination (process, implementation, enforcement challenges, etc)

Special units of Government (Lake District, Sanitary District, Intergovernmental Cooperation)

Lake Associations

Local Environmental Nonprofits (Land Trust, Environmental Education, Friend's Groups, Ducks Unlimited, etc.)

Walworth County (Zoning/Land Use and Resource Management, Public Health, Public Works, Sherrif, etc.)

Local Municipalities (Towns, Villages, Cities, Etc.)

State Government (Department of Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of Administration, Etc.)

Federal Government (Fish and Wildlife Service, Enviromental Protection Agency, Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Wisconsin Lakes Association | URL: https://wisconsinlakes.org

Wisconsin Lake Partnership (Extension Lakes, DNR, Wisconsin Lakes Association) | URL: https://www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/partnership.aspx

Extension Lakes | URL: https://www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/default.aspx