The Big Portage Lake Adaptive Management Plan results from a project funded by a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) Lake Planning Grant. The project was submitted by the Big Portage Lake Riparian Owners Association (hereby referred to as the BPLROA or Association). White Water Associates, Inc., an independent ecological consulting firm and environmental laboratory, served as a consultant to the BPLROA.

Big Portage Lake Riparian Owners Association is sponsoring a Lake Planning grant project to study Big Portage Lake, in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP). Project activities include: 1) Gather and assess existing lake info; 2) Volunteer frog and toad monitoring and angler\2019s journal program; 3) PI aquatic plant survey, community and substrate mapping and analysis; 4) Watershed assessment, riparian habitat assessment and water quality assessment; 5) Rare species assessment and fisheries assessment; 6) AIS monitoring; 7) Educational program \2013 lake user survey, meetings, newsletter articles, \201Cfloating\201D workshop, and press releases; 8) Develop LMP.