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Wetland Coffee Break: Reed canarygrass: A comprehensive literature review for wetland managers
Hear from practitioner Craig Annen, who has been collecting and examining an extensive body of reed canarygrass literature from across the world since 2002 (from more than 1,000 studies and over 300 journals in ten different languages).
Inaugural rollout of Wisconsin’s Pre-Disaster Flood Resilience Grant generates great interest
Wisconsin’s Pre-Disaster Flood Resilience Grant Program is in the process of accepting its first round of applications—and WWA is encouraged by the high level of interest.
Wetland Coffee Break: Draft wetland functional assessment tool for Wisconsin and Minnesota
Hear Tom Pearce from Wisconsin DNR discuss the strategy and goals for developing the new RAM tool, provide an overview of current tool functions and scoring, and share an update on stakeholder engagement efforts.
A watershed moment for Wisconsin Wetlands Association
Successful growth requires good planning. To that end, over the past months and with your input, WWA has developed a Strategic Plan for our next five years.
Wetland Coffee Break: Helping farmers, saving cranes
International Crane Foundation’s Ryan Michalesko joined us to discuss how ICF is expanding its efforts to find real solutions to support farmers while also protecting cranes and the landscape.
Wetland Coffee Break: New general permit to promote hydrologic restoration of streams, wetlands, and floodplains in Wisconsin
Hear from WWA’s Erin O’Brien and the WDNR’s Tom Nedland as they give a brief background and overview of the Hydrologic Restoration General Permit, which will encourage voluntary wetland, stream, and floodplain restoration and management projects.
Little Plover River Watershed Enhancement Project hosts Natural Resources Board
WWA and its partners led the seven-member, Governor appointed board on a tour of the project as part of their September meeting in Plover, Wisconsin.
Success! Revised rule breaks down barriers to hydrology-focused wetland and stream restoration practices
A recent update to a DATCP rule is a major step forward in breaking barriers to wetland restoration by enabling the use of state funding for hydrologic restoration and stream restoration.
Wetland Coffee Break: An introduction to Wisconsin’s wetland-loving snakes
Get acquainted with the 8 species of snake in Wisconsin that spend time in wetlands for at least part of the year in this Wetland Coffee Break presentation from Rebecca Christoffel.