Annual Conference 2024
Annual Conference 2024 Please Join us at the 2024 Lakes Conference! Details and Registration can be found on this website: https://lakeconferencemaine.org/.
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Workshops & Events
Thaw(tful) Insights on Lakes (Webinar Series 2024)
Thaw(tful) Insights on Lakes ( Webinar Series with Maine Lakes) Quick Links Webinars Webinar Series with Maine Lakes 4 Videos Ice Tracking by Tristan Taber Maine Crayfish by Karen Wilson PFAS: A New Fish Tissue Issue by Tom Danieldson Maine Newest Aquatic Threats Understanding Ice in Maine’s Lakes & LSM Dataset Presented by Tristan
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Webinar: Know Your Floating Leaf Plants
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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Webinar: Know Your Bladderworts
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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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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Webinars: 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 What is MeterFest? As part of the certified lake monitoring process, Lake Stewards of Maine (LSM) and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) provide free calibration and maintenance for volunteer water quality dissolved oxygen meters. The only potential cost is for replacement components, which we will
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Annual Conference 2023
Annual Conference 2023 Quick Links Annual Conference 2023 Recordings Here Thank You for an Incredible Joint Annual Conference in 2023! Lake Stewards of Maine extends a heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in our Joint Annual Conference 2023. Your passion for lake conservation and commitment to preserving the natural beauty of Maine’s lakes made
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