AIS Outreach Programs
We offer a variety of AIS programs and services at no cost to you, your lake group, organization, or school.  Please do not hesitate to contact us for AIS verification, guidance, help, site visits, technical assistance, coordination of efforts, etc. These programs and services include, but are not limited to:

Outreach Programs
Do You Need Assistance with an AIS? 
 We offer a variety of AIS programs and services at no cost to you, your lake group, organization or school.  Please do not hesitate to contact us for AIS verification, guidance, help, site visits, technical assistance, coordination of efforts, etc. These programs and services include, but are not limited to:

  • Provide education, support, training, program development and implementation, and technical assistance to individuals and over 45 lake associations and 7 lake districts in Oneida County.
  • Conduct site visits to identify potentially new AIS populations and provide to education and guidance as needed.  
  • Work with land owners and lake groups to control, manage, and remove AIS populations. Some of the species we work with include yellow iris, purple loosestrife, flowering rush, Eurasian water milfoil, non-native phragmites, curly-leaf pondweed, aquatic forget-me-not, and rusty crayfish.
  • Provide purple loosestrife biocontrol
  • Rehabilitate and restores habitats after AIS removal.
  • Monitor and maps existing AIS populations.
  • Report data to SWIMS.
  • Conduct over 1,200 hours of Clean Boats Clean Waters watercraft inspections each year.  Our Team conducts inspections at the busy, underserved boat landings located on popular waterbodies, and have either an established high priority AIS or are invaded waters.
  • Conduct AIS early detection monitoring & water quality monitoring on a minimum of 15 waterbodies each year. From 2014 through 2023, the AIS Team has monitored 150 lakes.
  • Conduct AIS early detection monitoring at a minimum if 15 boat landings per year.
  • Install and manage AIS signage at the boat landings.
  • Assist the DNR with aquatic plant point intercept surveys
  • Provide fun, hands-on youth education and field events, and we host an annual invasive species poster contest that is open to all 4-8th grade students throughout WI.
  • Attend lake group meetings.
  • Provide AIS education, training, outreach and technical support to empower lake groups, individuals, water-related businesses, lake managers, partners, and other stakeholders with knowledge and tools to prevent the spread of AIS.  
  • Share data with lake groups, lake management planners, DNR, partners and other stakeholders.
  • Work closely with our partners at the UWSP Extension Lakes program, WI Lakes & Rivers Partnership, stakeholders, and the WI DNR to ensure our efforts are consistent and coordinated with the states AIS protocols. 
  • Secure DNR grant funding to support our programs and staff. 
 If you have any questions about AIS or your lake, please do not hesitate to contact us.  ​