Webinar: How to Lead a Plant Paddle (2025) Quick Links This webinar instructs invasive plant patrol (IPP) team leaders how to conduct a plant paddle workshop for volunteers. This “train the trainers” webinar teaches volunteers how to instruct others how to survey for and rule out suspicious aquatic plants. The program focuses on how to […]
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Webinar: Travel Team Orientation Quick Links This webinar is about Lake Stewards of Maine’s IPP Travel Team, a group of dedicated invasive plant patrollers who venture their home lakes to address aquatic invasive species issues across Maine. The Travel Team has proven itself to be one of LSM’s most powerful tool in confronting the spread
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2025 Invasive Plant Patrol (IPP 101) Quick Links Invasive Plant Patrol (IPP) 101 is a 3-hour online class designed to teach beginner invasive plant patrollers about how to survey for aquatic invasive species (AIS). In this course, volunteers learn how to identify the 15 aquatic invasive plants found on Maine’s watch-list and the threats they
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Survey123 Webinar (2025) Quick Links Recording Available Survey123 for IPPers teaches invasive plant patrollers how to use Survey123, an online survey tracking tool. Survey123 is a powerful geographic information system (GIS) tool used in tracking volunteer surveys. In this program, Becky Schaffner of Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) demonstrates the basics of Survey123, how
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Know your Naiads webinar Quick Links
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Know Your Floating Leaf Plants Webinar Quick Links “Know Your Floating Leaf Plants Webinar” Date: October 19th, 2023 Recording available Lake Stewards of Maine will host a webinar titled “Know Your Floating Leaf Plants” on Thursday, October 19 via Zoom at 9:00 am. Learning plants by their floating leaves is a great for beginning plant patrollers to get started identifying aquatic flora. In this webinar, volunteers will
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Know Your Bladderworts Webinar Quick Links “Know Your Bladderworts” Presented by Brett Willard and Christine Guerette. This webinar is designed to teach beginners how to know and identify bladderworts, a genus of common carnivorous aquatic plants. In this class, guests will learn how to determine the identify of four of Maine’s native species and one
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“The Battle for Big Lake” Quick Links “The Battle for Big Lake”, is a compelling documentary produced by LSM volunteer and videographer, Steve Underwood. The 20-minute film is an impressive example of how a community has come together to fight variable milfoil, a highly competitive, fast growing and easily spread aquatic invasive plant. This impactful
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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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