Wetland Coffee Break
The Wetland Coffee Break series helps keep our community of wetland lovers connected and learning about wetlands throughout the year, from anywhere! Bring your coffee and learn about wetlands, the plants and animals that call them home, and the many natural benefits they provide to our communities. Sessions are held on Zoom and feature time for audience Q&A.
See below for a list of upcoming presentations and to register. Once you register, you’ll receive an automatic email including the URL link and password you’ll need to access the meeting. We record and post each presentation so you can watch any that you missed live. You’ll find links to these recordings below, and you can also find them on our Facebook page.
We are grateful to all of the presenters for sharing their knowledge and expertise and to everyone interested in learning more about wetlands! If you are interested in giving a Wetland Coffee Break presentation, or if you have a wetland topic you’d like to see covered, please contact Katie.Beilfuss@wisconsinwetlands.org.

Register for a Wetland Coffee Break
Upper Mississippi River restoration history: From dam planning to partnership success
Friday, July 8, 2022
10:30 am
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Breathing life into an old canoe: Restoring the Swampstakes Old Town wood canvas canoe
Friday, July 22, 2022
10:30 am
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Restoring wild rice in Green Bay west shore coastal wetlands
Friday, August 5, 2022
10:30 am
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Northern pike life history along Green Bay’s west shore
Friday, September 9, 2022
10:30 am
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The role and application of prescribed fire in Wisconsin wetlands
Friday, September 23, 2022
10:30 am
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It’s the little things that run the world: the importance of aquatic invertebrates
Friday, October 7, 2022
10:30 am
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Watch previous presentations
Click “Older Entries” below to see more past presentations, or view our Google Sheet index of past presentations here.
Toward more effective invasive species management: Part 2
Part 2: How a system dynamics approach works in practice Note: This presentation will be more technical than many of the talks in the Wetland Coffee Break series State and transition models of community dynamics predict that feedback processes and synergistic...
Wetland Coffee Break: Toward more effective invasive species management: Part 1
Part 1 introduces concepts from state and transition models and systems approaches to invasive species management.
Wetland Coffee Break: Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge: 10 years strong and beyond
Vince Mosca and Paul Bruett will discuss the establishment of this Urban National Wildlife Refuge and its goals and will share progress made in land acquisition over the last 10 years.
Wetland Coffee Break: Chiwaukee Prairie: A conservation story through photos
Join Dr. Dana Garrigan to hear the story of the preservation of Chiwaukee Prairie via a spectacular photographic tour.
Wetland Coffee Break: Habitat restoration and bird monitoring on the Oneida Nation reservation
To evaluate restoration success at three critical sites with respect to bird life, the Oneida Nation partnered with several organizations to launch a bird monitoring program.
Wetland Coffee Break: Chemical control of cattail in species-rich wetlands
Integrated Restorations, LLC, has been evaluating the use of the selectively-targeted herbicide imazapyr (Polaris) for reversing cattail invasions in species-rich fen and sedge meadow wetlands of the Mukwonago River watershed in southeastern Wisconsin.