Final draft of a comprehensive lake management plan for the Manitowish Waters Chain

Part of the Manitowish Chain of Lakes Comprehensive Lake Management Plant Draft, concerning Rest Lake.

Part of the Manitowish Waters Chain of Lakes Comprehensive Lake Management Plan Draft concerning Spider Lake

Part of the Manitowish Waters Chain of Lakes Comprehensive Lake Management Plan Draft, concerning Island Lake

Appendices for one of the documents for the Manitowish Chain of Lakes Lake Management project

Manitowish Waters Lakes Association, Inc is sponsoring a large scale lake planning grant to study Rest Lake in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP) for Rest 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 assessment; 5) Shoreline assessment; 6) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 7) Curly-leaf pondweed survey, PI survey, and aquatic plant community mapping; 8) Data analysis and develop LMP; 9) Volunteer AIS monitoring and watercraft inspections; 10) Purple loosestrife biocontrol. Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey, news release(s), and newsletter article; 2) Entered AIS monitoring and inspection data onto SWIMS; 3) Water chemistry data; 4) Watershed maps and modeling data; 5) Point Intercept and shoreland data; 6) Aquatic plant community and substrate maps; 7) Aquatic plant vouchers; 8) LMP.

Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment or Inventory