Laura Herman UWEX-Lakes

Stevens Point, Wisconsin United States

Education

The Citizen Lake Monitoring Network (CLMN) creates a bond between over 1000 citizen volunteers statewide, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and UWEX-Lakes. Our goals are to collect high quality data, educate and empower volunteers, and share this data and knowledge. Volunteers can: 1) Measure water clarity (using the Secchi Disk method) 2) Collect chemistry, temperature, and dissolved oxygen data 3) Identify and map native plants 4) Identify and map aquatic invasive species (i.e. Eurasian Water Milfoil, Zebra Mussels, Curly Leaf Pondweed, Purple Loosestrife, Rusty Crayfish, etc.) DNR and University of Wisconsin-Extension staff provide volunteers with the necessar