Town of Plum Lake's Lakes
Strength in Numbers
Monitoring the Town of Plum Lake's lakes for Aquatic Invasive Species is a challenging feat and you can help. Learn how to identify our biggest threats and look for them when you are out on the water. Record your hours on our form below and submit them.
- Your time is money. Volunteer time = $15/hour leveraged as cost share to receiving grant funding.
- Attend an AIS and Healthy Lakes workshop to learn how to identify and report.
- Look for AIS when you're on the water.
Town of Plum Lake's Lake Committee
Visit their website to learn more about ongoing projects with the Town of Plum Lake's lakes.
Most Recent Monitoring and Management Mapping
Yellow Iris (YI) was first documented in the Turtle Lakes Chain in 2018 and Pardee Lake. Over the past decade, NLDC has partnered with the Turtle Lakes Chain Association (TLCA), Pardee Lake Association, and property owners to monitor and manage YI. Additional, larger scale, shoreline restoration projects have also been implemented by NLDC.
Early Detection AIS Monitoring, 2026
(coming soon)
Reports
Since 2021, the Town of Plum Lake has partnered with North Lakeland Discovery Center on a variety of environmental monitoring projects across area lakes. The annual report summarizes these efforts.
The comprehensive plan for the Town of Plum Lake's Lakes was developed by Onterra, LLC and approved in August 2022. This plan was funded by the Town of Plum Lake WI Department of Natural Resources. The planning committee was comprised of riparian property owners from ten lakes in the Town of Plum Lake.
The comprehensive plan for the Town of Plum Lake recommends periodic vegetation monitoring updates. Following the same phased approach as the first series of planning efforts, aquatic plant point intercept (PI) data has been collected by NLDC and findings are reported below.
To learn more about aquatic plant data, see Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Plant Explorer database.
