TOWN OF PRESQUE ISLE: Wildcat & Averill Lake Limnological Baseline Studies & APM Plans

The Town of Presque Isle is sponsoring a large scale lake planning grant to study Wildcat and Averill Lakes in Vilas County with a study completion date of June 30, 2008. The project will focus on developing an Aquatic Plant Management (APM) Plan for each lake.

Project activities include:

1) Data review and project kick-off meeting, one site visit to discuss goals, and project final meeting

2) Develop public questionnaire and prepare educational article

3) Point-intercept (PI) survey of aquatic plants with 2 sets of pressed plants from each lake

4) Aquatic plant community mapping and analysis

5) Water quality sampling - secchi, P, Chla, DO, and Temp during aquatic plant sampling

6) Watershed and land use analysis

7) Develop APM Plan

Project deliverables include:

1) Public questionnaire and educational article

2) PI data and aquatic plant community and watershed maps

3) 2 sets of pressed aquatic plants from each lake (one set for lake group and second for Dept)

4) Water quality sampling results

5) APM Plan

Specific conditions for this project:

- Draft of public questionnaire should be submitted to Lakes Management Coordinator for review before sending to public

- APM Plan needs Dept review and approval

WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) and hard copy of APM Plan, educational article, public questionnaire, data from watershed and land use analysis, data from PI survey, data from water quality sampling, all maps from project, and a set of pressed aquatic plants from each lake.

Activities

• Comprehensive Planning Studies

Final Report and Products

• Aquatic Plant Survey - Averill Lake 7/27/2007 [ 951 KB]
• Aquatic Plant Survey - Wildcat Lake - 8/9/2007 - 8/10/2007 [ 1 MB]
• Report - Aquatic Plant Management Plan - Averill Lake [PDF 360 KB]
• Report - Aquatic Plant Management Plan - Wildcat Lake [PDF 494 KB]