Project Detail

LOST LAKE PROTECTION & REHAB DISTRICT: Lost Lake Management Plan

Purpose

Lost Lake P&R District is sponsoring a project which will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP) for Lost Lake. Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation \2013 stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), kick-off meeting, wrap-up meeting, news release(s), and newsletter article; 2) Water quality sampling and analysis; 3) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 4) Fisheries, Shoreline, and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment; 5) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 6) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, acoustic survey, community mapping, and substrate mapping); 7) Data analysis; 8) Develop LMP. Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey, news release(s), and newsletter article; 2) Water chemistry data; 3) Watershed maps and modeling data; 4) PI, shoreland and woody habitat data; 5) Aquatic plant community, acoustic and substrate maps; 6) Aquatic plant vouchers; 7) LMP. Specific conditions for this project: 1) Draft of stakeholder survey needs Dept review and approval; 2) Draft of LMP needs Dept review and approval. WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) copy of LMP, news release(s), newsletter article, stakeholder survey, data from PI survey, acoustic survey, shoreland assessment, woody habitat assessment, watershed assessment and water quality sampling, all maps from project, all GIS data, and aquatic plant vouchers.

Project Type

Aquatic Invasives Grant

Project Sub Type

Aquatic Invasives Education

Project ID

AEPP50517

Year Started

2017

Status

Complete

Reports and Documents

Lost Lake, Vilas County, Comprehensive Management Plan - Appendices

Appendix A thru G

Lost Lake, Vilas County, Comprehensive Management Plan

At the time of this report, the most current orthophoto (aerial photograph) was from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), collected in the summer of 2015. Based on heads-up digitizing the water level from that aerial photograph, this lowland drainage lake was determined to be 553 acres. According to a 2017 acoustic survey of the lake, Lost Lake has a maximum depth of 24 feet and a mean depth of 11 feet. This eutrophic lake has a relatively large watershed when compared to the size of the lake. Lost Lake contains 34 native plant species, of which slender naiad (Najas flexilis) is the most common plant. Two exotic plant species are known to exist in Lake Lost, Eurasian watermilfoil and curly-leaf pondweed.

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Grant Awarded

Grant AEPP50517 awarded

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