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Webinar: Know Your Floating Leaf Plants

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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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Webinar: Know Your Bladderworts

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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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Aquatic Invasive Species Workshops

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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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Webinars: Aquatic Invasive Plant Manual Control Methods Trainings

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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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Viewing Scopes

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Viewing Scopes Quick Links View scopes, regardless of their type, help us peer through the reflective surface of the water and into the amazing aquatic world! LSM supplies, offers demonstration workshops, sells, and provides instruction on how to make your own view scope. Instructions to fabricate a view scope by type: Bucket Scope Cover Bucket

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Volunteer

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Volunteer Quick Links Training and certification are central to the work we perform at Lake Stewards of Maine. All volunteer water quality monitors and invasive plant patrollers must be certified in order for their data to be shared publicly. High-quality, replicable data collection is essential to ensuring scientific credibility. This allows us—and other researchers—to better

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AIS Advanced Plant Identification

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Advanced Plant Identification Quick Links This workshop picks up where IPP 101 leaves off, with more emphasis on learning the ecology and the distinctive physical characteristics of the native plants that inhabit Maine’s lakes and ponds. Attendees will hone their identification skills with live specimens, and have the option of participating in an Aquatic Plant ID Proficiency Certification exam.

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