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Watershed Assessment

News: Boyden Lake’s low water level raising concerns for residents

Climate Resilience in Lake Communities, Educational Material, Water Quality Monitoring, Watershed Assessment / By

News: Boyden Lake’s low water level raising concerns for residents   Water levels are incredibly complex and challenging to manage because, without a thorough understanding of a specific lake, it’s impossible to predict with certainty how a particular water level will impact water quality, aquatic vegetation, and shorelands. Compounding these ecological concerns are the social […]

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Watershed Survey Grant Information and Application

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Watershed Survey Grant Information and Application Quick Links Lake watershed surveys conducted by community volunteers are an effective tool for identifying and resolving land use problems that have a negative impact on lake water quality. Watershed surveys also increase overall public awareness about threats to lake health and can serve as rallying calls in a

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Invasive Aquatic Species

Volunteer Time Tracking Form

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Volunteer Time Tracking Form Quick Links Attention LSM volunteers please complete this form providing us with your hours dedicated to monitoring and lake stewardship activities this past year. This information helps us determine volunteer value which is reported to various funding sources and helps us secure future funding. Use this form to submit any time

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Invasive Aquatic Species

Volunteer

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Volunteer Quick Links Training and certification are central to the work we perform here at Lake Stewards of Maine. All volunteer water quality monitors and invasive plant patrollers must go through certification in order for us to share this data with the public. The essential role  of high quality and replicable data collection is at

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Understanding Water Quality Indicators

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Understanding Water Quality Indicators Quick Links Transparency, Polluted Stormwater Runnoff, and Algae There are many imminent threats to Maine lakes. Near the top of the list, and perhaps the most pervasive, is the potential for lakes to become nutrient enriched and more biologically productive due to development in lake watersheds. This condition is often characterized

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Water Quality Technical Support Session: A Discussion of Flushing Rates

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Water Quality Technical Support Session: A Discussion of Flushing Rates https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/525697766/679f9e7db7 Quick Links A technical discussion with LSM WQ monitors, primarily focused upon the phenomena of watershed flushing.

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2021 Water Quality Monitoring Summit Morning Session

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2021 Water Quality Monitoring Summit Morning Session https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/543103378/aec1b519b6 Quick Links Maine Lake Monitoring Summit Morning Sessions. April 8th, 2021 Guest Speaker Dr. Jasmine Saros (University of  Maine – Orono) Lakes as Sentinels of Environmental Change Lowest Point in Landscape Integrate information from changes in air/watersheds Archive signals in sediments      

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LSM Water Quality Technical Session 20210218 – A Discussion of Citizen Lake Watershed Surveys

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LSM Water Quality Technical Session 20210218 – A Discussion of Citizen Lake Watershed Surveys https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/525539411/2b7bab27a5 Quick Links Lake Stewards of Maine Water Quality Session, February 18th, 2021 Citizen Lake Watershed Surveys

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