MINONG FLOWAGE ASSOCIATION: 2024 Minong Flowage AIS Management Planning Project

The Minong Flowage Association is sponsoring a project to create a new Aquatic Plant Management (APM) Plan for the Minong Flowage (MF) that will be complete in early 2024. This project completes planning for what is expected to be a large-scale, EWM management action in the MF in 2025.

Activities: 1) Stakeholders Meeting. 2) AIS early detection surveys. 3) EWM mapping and pretreatment PI surveys. 4) Water quality monitoring.

Deliverables: 1) All planning materials including grant actions spreadsheet & assigned responsibilities 2) Including the annual newsletter, agendas & minutes from MFA meetings 3) All watercraft inspection & AIS monitoring data entered into SWIMS 4) CLMN data entered into SWIMS.

Conditions:

1) Do not duplicate CLMN efforts, and include these data in any trends analysis and final reporting.

2) Enter data collected into SWIMS database under the grant project number.

3) Point intercept surveys shall follow Recommended Baseline Monitoring of Aquatic Plants in Wisconsin: Sampling Design, Field and Laboratory Procedures, Data Entry and Analysis, and Applications, publication number PUB-SS-1068. Submit electronic point intercept data to this email address: DNRBaselineAquaticPlants@wisconsin.gov

4) All monitoring shall follow DNR protocols.

This scope summarizes details provided in the application and does not negate tasks and/or deliverables described therein. Data, reports, surveys, and supporting information, including photos, maps and GIS data, must be submitted to the DNR Biologist in electronic format and in any other format they specify.

If a consultant provides a final report, it is recommended that the Grantee provide the DNR Biologist with a draft for comment on report adequacy prior to making a final payment to the consultant. Include electronic copy of the final report along with or prior to submission of grantee's final payment request.