Our summer 2026 Watershed Waves newsletter is here! In this issue: Gile Flowage Conservation Success Message from the Executive Director Meet our intern Elsa Call for Volunteers: Cattail Removal Sulfates and their effect on Wetlands Superior Rivers Data Nugget Thank you Donors, Funders, Volunteers Join us for our Annual Membership Gathering, August 23! Download the…
Read MoreAuthor: Emma Holtan
Adopt a Site and Legacy Giving
Adopt a Site We launched our Adopt a Site program in 2024, and two years later it’s going strong. 19 of our 37 currently active monitoring sites are currently adopted! Our 70+ volunteers monitor these sites in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior Basin, collecting monthly chemistry data and twice-per-year macroinvertebrate samples. These volunteers log astounding hundreds of…
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Spring Macroinvertebrate Sampling Around the Corner
Our volunteers have been collecting chemistry and macroinvertebrate data since 2002 – that’s almost 25 years of data! Now we need volunteers to get into local rivers and streams to collect macroinvertebrate specimens to add to this historic dataset. Our spring field work sampling window is Sunday, May 3rd through Sunday, May 17th. Macroinvertebrate volunteers…
Read MoreMarengo Riffles Issue 4 - 2023
As winter is setting in and we’re all beginning to hunker down, we are pleased to issue our fourth edition of Marengo Riffles. In this issue we’re looking back at an Ashland Land and Water Conservation led restoration project on Tody Creek this summer and forward to new funding opportunities through the Headwaters to Coast…
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