New website for Weed Coop

A wonderful new website for the Northwoods Weed Cooperative Management Area.  Great job Darienne!
http://www.northwoodscwma.org/

Wisconsin Lakes Convention April 10-12

KI Convention Center, Green Bay Wisconsin

Register On-line Now for Early Bird Pricing!
 

The Wisconsin Lakes Partnership will host their 34th annual Lakes Convention on April 10-12, 2012 at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay. The convention theme, “Partnering for Lakes,” will focus on how we can continue to work together to protect our state waters. Who are we? We are lakefront property owners, farmers, swimmers, scientists, builders, business owners, anglers, realtors, lake groups, government officials, boaters, foresters, teachers – we are the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership. 

Continuing with tradition, the convention will offer interactive workshops, full-group (plenary) sessions, a poster session, over 35 concurrent sessions, and several opportunities to create new partnerships and bolster seasoned ones. Two of the keynote speakers this year are John McKnight and Darby Nelson.

Invasives Plant Meeting March 8 in Hayward, WI

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

These are the dates and locations of our 2012 invasive plant update meetings.  The meetings will be limited to 50 people per location.  Cost will be $10 per person to cover food and materials. This meeting will be an informal round table discussion about the control measures for the following invasive plants. We will also be discussing Wisconsin’s Invasive Species Rule - NR 40, or Minnesota’s Noxious and Invasive Weed Program (depending on location or attendees) how does this rule impact you.  Rick Schulte, Dale Sutherland, Lee Shambeau will help coordinate the meeting with impute from everyone as to what has or has not worked for their control practices. Please forward this to any Federal, State, Local agency or groups that are working on invasives or should be. Registration will be at 8:30 and start at 8:45.  We should finish around 2:00

March 7^th Eagle River, WI - Lincoln Town Hall is located at 1205 Sundstein Road, Eagle River, WI 54521.

March 8^th Hayward, WI – Comfort Suites 15586 County Road B, Hayward, WI 54843

March 9^th Rochester, MN – Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Learning Center 2900-19^th ST NW Rochester MN 55901

Here is a list of the invasives that will be discussed, if you have others please forward them in advance so we can have some information put together.

1.    Buckthorn

2.    Garlic mustard

3.    Spotted knapweed

4.    Boxelder

5.    Wild parsnip

6.    Honeysuckle

7.    Reed canary grass

8.    Purple Loosestrife

9.    Black locust

10.Sweet Clover

11.Canada thistle & others

12.Sumac

13.Prickly ash

14.Autumn olive

15.Crown & Cow vetch

16.Japanese knotweed (Japanese Bamboo)

17.Leafy spurge

18.Multiflora Rose

19.Phragmites

20.Cattail

21.Tansy

22.Teasel

23.St. Johnswort

24.Orange Hawkweed

25.Amur Maple

26.Wild Chervil

27.Swallow-wort

28.Japanese Hops

29.Yellow Star Thistle

30.Grecian Foxglove

31.Oriental Bittersweet

32.Dalmatian Toadflax

33.Narrowleaf Bittercress

34.Japanese Barberry

35.Norway Maple

All reservations for the meetings should be set to Marion Shambeau

marion@4-control.com   

            or

888-454-1121

Thank you,

Lee Shambeau

4 Control Inc.

P O Box 517

Menomonie, WI 54751

888.454.1121 office

715.505.4444 cell

715.235.4495 fax 

Mobile apps for field work

Water Tracker

The University of Florida has collected recommended mobile apps from field ecologists across the country and listed them here.  They include field guides like ibird, but also data entry programs and apps that link you to real time river flow gauges.

How have you integrated mobile apps into your natural resources work?

But then again, what about this?

Cartoon by Michael Leunig, http://www.leunig.com.au

Northwoods Coop Weed Management Winter Newsletter

The Northwoods Cooperative Weed Management Area is very active in the northern tier of counties along Lake Superior in Wisconsin.  The Weed Coop host volunteer workdays, educates the public about invasive species and provides training for town road supervisors on controlling invasive plants--when and how.

Click here for the most recent and past newsletters.

Playing Tag with Sustainable Ag

"Playing Tag with Sustainable Ag"

Thursday, Feb 9, 6:30pm Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center (map) 29270 Cty G, Ashland, Wisconsin

Join us for an update for growers, distributors and consumers of local food (all of us!) Claire Hintz and Jason Fischbach on the state of sustainable agriculture in our region.

Claire Hintz is owned of Elsewhere Farm in Herbster. She will present what she found on her trip around lake Superior to Research other communities' food networks. Jason, University of Wisconsin Agriculture Agent will give an update on the most recent projects underway in our region and how people can support what's happening. A lively discussion will follow.

Sponsored by the Alliance for Sustainability and the University of Wisconsin Extension--Bayfield County

Wisconsin Phenology Calendar Now Available

The Wildlife Phenology Calendar (G3846) will be available for purchase next week. Phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life-cycle events in nature that are influenced by climate and seasonal change, such as wildlife emerging from hibernation, birds nesting or migrating, and flowers blooming. This year's calendar focuses on plants and animals featured in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. You can order next week on the Learning Store. We're also featuring other publications related to phenology on the Learning Store's home page this week.