2026 Lakes Webinar Series Quick Links This series is a collaboration between Lakes Stewards of Maine and Maine Lakes, featuring webinars on lake-related topics. Speak Up for Lakes! Advocacy Update and Training Presented by Susan Gallo, Maine Lakes January 13th and 15th (two options, same content) Join Maine Lakes, Lake Stewards of Maine, and other members […]
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Understanding the New Maine DEP Lake Scorecard on Lakes of Maine https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1146738338 Quick Links Jeremy Deeds, PhD; Understanding the Maine DEP Lake Scorecard on the Lakes of Maine website www.lakesofmaine.org is the most comprehensive online information resource available for Maine lakes. Jeremy Deeds working with a broad collective of scientists, community stakeholders, citizen scientists, and
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Webinar: Know Your Floating Leaf Plants – Copy Quick Links “Know Your Basal Rosette Plants Webinar” Recording available These plants, which feature leaves alternately arranged radiating out from a central base at substrate level, are numerous and can be confusing to invasive plant patrollers. This program will teach volunteers how to recognize a basal rosette plant, identify
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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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Navigating to Station Using Google Maps Quick Links This video, presented by Tristan Taber (WQ Program Director ffor LSM), illustrates a simple way to navigate to an established station on a lake using a cellphone or another location enabled mobile device using Google MapsTM.
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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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