IPP Screening Mapping Form Directions
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Silent Auction
Silent Auction Below you can find the donors and items for the Silent Auction. Quick Links LLBean Items 🎁Kayak- Grand Prize Patagonia 🎁HENB ALL 2nd Paxat Backpack 32L 🎁M Better Men’s Sweater (L) 🎁P-6 Logo LoPro Trucker Hat 🎁Puffin Beach Responsible Men’s Tee (L) 🎁Puffin Beach Responsible Women’s Tee (S) 🎁Ultralight Black Hole Mini Hip
Aquatic Invasive Species Workshops
Lake Stewards of Maine offers a variety of free Invasive Plant Patrol (IPP) workshops. IPP Workshops are designed to teach volunteers how to look for suspicious plants, determine native from invasive species, and how to properly survey and report findings.
IPP volunteers are crucial to LSM’s work monitoring for aquatic invasive species. On this page volunteers can find out details, dates, and registration links for both in-person and online IPP workshops.
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Invasive Plant Patrol 101
Learn about how to identify each of Maine’s 15 potentially invasive plants and their native lookalikes, proper surveying methods and how to organize an invasive plant patrol team, and how to properly report and submit findings. This class is required for those seeking Tier 2 Certification by Lake Stewards of Maine. An accompanying review quiz will be required for certification.
Date: May 9, 9am – 12 pm
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Aquatic Invasive Plant Manual Control Methods Trainings
This webinar outlines a variety of manual control methods for aquatic invasive plants present in Maine. Guests will learn about basic biology and identifying characteristics for a variety of known aquatic invasive species (AIS) and their native lookalikes, how to manually remove AIS safely and effectively, and Maine permitting and reporting requirements for manual control methods.
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Water Quality MeterFest and Meter Maintenance
Water Quality MeterFest and Meter Maintenance Quick Links As part of the certified lake monitoring process, Lake Stewards of Maine (LSM) and the Maine Department on Environmental Protection (DEP), ensure the calibration and functionality of all volunteer water quality dissolved oxygen meters. This service is FREE, the only cost potentially arising from replacement of components
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Water Quality Local Boat Host Program
Water Quality Local Boat Host Program Quick Links Every year Lake Stewards of Maine coordinates training and recertification events with the Maine DEP. These trainings are held regionally at lakes throughout the state. The intent is to save significant travel for our fantastic volunteers. In order for these trainings to happen though, we need local
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LSM Webinar – Sedges, Rushes, and Grasses of Maine Lakes, Standley
LSM Webinar – Sedges, Rushes, and Grasses of Maine Lakes, Standley Quick Links Sedges, Rushes, and Grasses of Maine LakesPresented by Lisa Standley, PhDRecorded on 2022-09-30 The presentation is technical in nature and covers the key features of sedges, rushes, and grasses. Lisa will describe the common and dominant species for each lacustrine habitat type.
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News: Lawmakers urged to increase funding to protect Maine’s many lakes
News: Lawmakers urged to increase funding to protect Maine’s many lakes Quick Links Lake Stewards of Maine recently testified before the State’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Lake Stewards of Maine testified in favor of LD 164, An Act to Fund the Lake Restoration and Protection Fund. Below is the news story published in the
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News: $1.5 million raised to help fight invasive plants at Cobbossee Lake
News: $1.5 million raised to help fight invasive plants at Cobbossee Lake Quick Links BY CHRIS BOUCHARD KENNEBEC JOURNAL More than $1.5 million has been raised to continue the fight against invasive plants at Cobbossee Lake, and lake association officials say the money could help protect one of central Maine’s largest bodies of water for up
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