Originally Posted by
BOGSTER
What’s your plan?
I have been attending aquatic council meetings when possible. (wish they would move them to better times of the day) I have also been reading research on aquatic vegetation both native and non-native species. As well as different chemicals currently being used by the management plan like glyphosate. Reading different research articles on the affect of plants on filtering metals from the water and the different chemicals being used and how they interact with everything. Need to be informed to be able to support an argument as well as to better inform others.
Next thing is to get as many involved as possible. We need as many as we can get to have a bigger impact. Votes move politicians more than sound science and research. The more we get the more we can get done.
One thing I am going to be doing this summer is visiting as many of the CAT 2 areas as possible. One of the things I will be doing this summer is visiting these areas and trying to get as much information about the areas as possible. That would be getting information about what the area was like and getting current data about various aquatic plants that grow. I think that many of the CAT 2 areas need a lot of work and would like to have as much information to present on as many as possible.
Another thing I have noticed is the health of grass carp has almost been ignored. Stocking has continued even though the health of the already stocked carp is low. So I will be taking as many pictures as I can while on the water this summer.
One option I have discussed with a few others is the ability to start a native aquatic vegetation restoration program. Have ran into a few problems with this the biggest being even with permission from DNR would be hard to spend time and money on areas then having someone else spray chemicals to kill what was just planted.
I know does not sound much like a plan yet but need to collect as much data and information as possible. The more information we have and the more support we have the better the end result can become.
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
Bookmarks