Starry Stonewort Collaborative

If you missed this morning's webinar with Integrated Lake Management's Keith Gray, it can now be found on our YouTube channel! He discussed Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting, starry stonewort, and recent harvesting in Keuka Lake.

You can watch the webinar here:
https://youtu.be/HojhZzJ1Z0M

Additionally, we were able to meet with Keith and his team in person while they conducted their harvesting and see the process for ourselves. You can view some of the pictures of the harvesting below!

On August 21st, Minnesota and Wisconsin will be running their annual invasive species sister events, Starry Trek and Snapshot Day, respectively. At sites across the two states, participants are educated about invasive species, trained on how to conduct rake tosses, and then sent out to nearby priority waterbodies to see what they can find. These are great programs that train hundreds of volunteers in a single day! You can learn more about them and register to attend with the links below:

Starry Trek: https://www.maisrc.umn.edu/ais-detectors/starrytrek

Snapshot Day: https://wateractionvolunteers.org/event-page/aquatic-invasive-species-snapshot-day-2021/

In conjunction with Starry Trek and Aquatic Invasive Species Snapshot Day, we encourage those of you partaking in our Starry Stonewort Survey program or the Finger Lakes PRISM Macrophyte Survey to go out and do some rake tosses as part of an Aquatic Invasive Species Blitz. It can be anywhere and anytime during August 21st that you like, just go out and find see what’s in the water near you!

Bring a friend and explain why it’s so important that we all keep fighting invasive species! Make sure you report your findings as you normally would so we can see how many surveys were done during this special, one day effort.

This is your chance to help raise awareness and participate in an AIS program spanning the entire Great Lakes basin!

Starry Trek: a statewide search for starry stonewort Starry Trek returns this August, as a new crew of volunteers will set out to explore new lakes, seek out new AIS, and to boldly go where no volunteer has gone before (ok, maybe not that last one). On Saturday, August 21st, volunteers will rendezvous at local training sites across the state to receiv...

In just a few days, on July 14th at 10:00am, we're hosting the third entry in our 2021 webinar series, with Dr. Douglas Pullman from the Aquest Corporation. Dr. Pullman is a limnologist and the president of the Aquest Corp., which has been consulting on lake management for 30 years.

His topic will be: Researching and applying control methods for starry stonewort.

Preregister to attend using the link below!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Webinar - Dr. Douglas Pullman. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Webinar - Dr. Douglas Pullman. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.