Lake Superior Partner Team Meets Mar 15

Lake Superior Partner Team
Tuesday, March 15 from 9:30am- 12noon
Iron River Community Center, Iron River, WI (map)
Draft AGENDA
1) Welcome and introductions
2) Announcements
3) Old Business
• City of Superior stormwater modeling for wetland impacts-Diane Nelson
• IAGLAR conference-John Jeraczek
• Marengo River Watershed Action Plan update—Matt Hudson/Valerie Olinik
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4) New Business
• Lake Superior Estuary Research Reserve- Ralph Garono
• 2011 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (April 11 deadline) discussion, getting letter of support from Office of Great Lakes, other?
• History of the Partner Team's recommendations on "slow the flow" and nonpoint source—Nancy Larson
• Update on Basin plan- all

Please send any agenda items to Ruth Oppedahl ruth.oppedahl@uwex.edu
For more info on the Lake Superior Partner Team, click here.

Image: National Weather Service Marquette, MI Weather Forecast Office
Ice Cover on Lake Superior Feb 16, 2011

New Website--Lake Superior Basin in Wisconsin

Check out the new website for the Lake Superior Basin Education Initiative.

The website includes several new features:
- Information on the latest natural resource educational and outreach programs UW Extension is offering in the Basin (eg. Learn About Your Land and others)
- Archive for publications about research in the Basin
- Source of maps and online mapping sites for the Basin
- Meeting information for the Lake Superior Partner Team
- Links to this blog and twitters and our Lake Superior Partner Team FaceBook group

Thanks to Annika Sargent of the Environmental Resources Center for design and technical assistance. Thanks to Sarah Traaholt for support and encouragement.

Please contact me(ruth.oppedahl@uwex.edu) with suggestions for making it better, typos to fix, new links or connections.

Lake Superior Partner Team meets Dec 14, 2010

The next Lake Superior Partner Team meeting is Tuesday, December 14 from 9:30am-12 noon at the Iron River Community Center.

Please contact me with any agenda items.

Here is what we have so far:
AGENDA
1) Welcome and introductions
2) Announcements
3) Old Business
• Lake Superior Forestry update – Kristen Tomaszewksi/Ruth Oppedahl
• Marengo River Watershed Action Plan – Matt Hudson

4) New Business
• Review objectives of the Douglas County and Town comprehensive plans—Jane Anklam, Christine Ostern, Sue O’Halloran and Amy Eliot
• Poster on project to digitize the Bordner Survey for the Basin- John Jereczek
• Penokee mine update
• History of the Partner Team's recommendations on "slow the flow" and nonpoint source—Nancy Larson
• Begin framework for Basin plan

I look forward to seeing you then!

Lake Superior Partners Meet April 16 in Iron River

The Lake Superior Basin Team is meeting on Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm at the Community Hall in Iron River. Please join us to hear presentations on two new initiatives in the watershed.

First we'll hear from Carmen Wagner and Kristen Tomaszewski from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about a forest watershed project that looks at how forest canopy cover affects water runoff into our streams. Scientists have seen that leaving at least 60% forest cover in our woodlands can reduce the velocity and volume of water entering our streams, reducing the erosion of clay and soil that harms fish and our drinking water supply.

Also at the meeting will be updates from Matt Hudson and Michele Wheeler of the Bad River Watershed Association on their Watershed Action Plan.

For more information, contact me via email at ruth.oppedahl@uwex.edu or call 715-685-2676.