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A New FACEBOOK Page For Our Association

For those of you that are Facebook users, we are starting our own Facebook page on a trial basis. We encourage all of you to visit and participate. The link is Turtle Flambeau Flowage and Trude Lake Property Owners Association Facebook Page. Also, if you have items of interest, pictures, etc., that you would like to post, please send them to tfftrudefb@gmail.com.

UW Trout Lake Station Welcomes Public to Annual Open House

BOULDER JUNCTION, WIS., July 19, 2018 – Just north of Minocqua, scientists from across Wisconsin, the nation, and the world are hard at work exploring issues like invasive species, sportfish populations and water quality.
 
On Friday, August 3rd, from 1pm to 5pm, UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology will welcome the public to its Trout Lake Station to explain what, exactly, all those research boats are doing around Vilas County and how what researchers learn may help keep Wisconsin’s lakes healthy.  
 
Visitors can spend half an hour or the whole afternoon taking guided tours of the station, meeting the plants and animals that call Vilas County lakes home, and talking to our scientists about anything and everything to do with Wisconsin’s freshwater ecosystems. 
 
Boat trips out on Trout Lake will let visitors try their hand at using lake research tools. Exhibits will feature rare plants and common fish from Northwoods lakes. Kids can catch their own plankton and aquatic bugs and then get an up-close look under microscopes, or create lake-themed crafts to take home as souvenirs.

News from the Wisconsin Citizen Lake Monitoring Network

The Spring-Summer issue of The Monitor is now available here – Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter. Be sure to check out the announcements on page 2 to learn about our first Lake Learning Day, a joint educational day co-hosted by the Citizen Lake Monitoring Network, Wisconsin Odonata Survey, and the Wisconsin Mussel Monitoring Program. Page 2 also announces the plans for the 2018 statewide Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Snapshot Day. We need your help to look for early populations of AIS, so please consider participating in this year’s Snapshot Day on August 18th!

Volunteers Needed for a Second Day of Tree Planting

The Mercer wildlife team will be holding a second work day at the Little Turtle Flowage on June 18th. We plan to put in the remaining 12 crabapples in two different openings. If time permits, we would like to clear some of the encroaching vegetation from the water’s edge within the grassland area. A recent burn on the property did a great job killing the majority of the brush within the burn unit. However, there is plenty of work to be done outside of the burn unit and along the edges of the upland portion of the burn unit. Thank you David Lombardo, Mike Shouldice, and Eric Olsen with MECCA and Bill Latke with the Turtle Flambeau Flowage & Trude Lake Property Owners Association for the help planting 24 plum trees and setting up 36 deer and rodent enclosures around the trees.

Please RSVP if you’re available Monday, June 18th at 9 AM. We will meet at the LTF parking lot.

Thank you!

Jenna Kosnicki
Wildlife Biologist – Bureau of Wildlife Management
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
5291 N State House Circle

Mercer, WI 54547
Phone: (715) 476-7843
Fax: (715) 476-7603

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