Carmen Reimer
From: Alberta Lake Management Society
Subject: The New Wave - Spring 2019
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Spring Newsletter Spring 2019
Did you remove your Winter Lake Monitoring: ice fishing hut?
With extremely low temperatures in January and February followed by warm temperatures in March, delivering a winter lake monitoring program proved to be a challenge!
However, a few dedicated volunteers braved the elements to collect the data we needed through our pilot project: Winter sylvan Lake, Gull Lake, and LakeKeepers! Buffalo Lake follow the Take It Off program to help ensure ice With financial support from Alberta Ecotrust, ALMS partnered fishing huts are removed from with winter anglers to collect dissolved oxygen, temperature, the lakes before March 31st. and phosphorus data from a number of lakes. To avoid polluting your lake, it is important to remove your A huge thank you to our volunteers who braved the cold and hut before the ice the slush to collect these data. A summary report will be deteriorates. available in the coming months on our website. More information can be
found ~ ALMS Scholarship 47 “a’ The ALMS Scholarship I Committee will be meeting /1 4 shortly to finalize the details I of the 2019 ALMS Scholarship! 4 Stay tuned to ALMS’ social media to get updates on when applications will be open for 2019! Plant Xdentification 0 for Wetland Assessment Course
alberta—E? cotrust Portage College is hosting a Winter LakeKeepers Volunteer Vien Lam plant identification for wetland assessment course! La keWatch : See the post on our FaceBook page, li~rn. Three new technicians have been hired for the 2019 summer LakeWatch program and they will be joining our team in May! Attention Educators!
We are thrilled to have received so many LakeWatch requests for
2019 - unfortunately, we won’t be able to monitor every lake. If you haven’t already done so, make sure you have submitted your request for lake monitoring to Caitlin at [email protected].
The LakeWatCh reports for 2018 are almost complete! To keep you entertained in the meantime, check out the summary reports We still have AWQA Kits and from last year available on our website! Plant ID Guides for sale! Visit our website to purchase your supplies for your summer education activities! ALMS Out and About qems
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- World Water Day 4 March 22
I’ 11 ALMS has spoken at and attended a number of education and outreach events this winterl
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Upcoming Provincial Election ExploreMore Stettler The upcoming Provincial election is taking place on April 16, Elementary 2019! Most recently, ALMS was invited to present to more In the lead up to the election, we are wondering, “what will than 150 students at Stettler the next government do for our lakes, reservoirs, and their Elementary! watersheds?” Thank you to the Battle River watershed Alliance for having We did a scan of the four major political parties’ platforms or us at your ExploreMore day! websites for the terms “lakes”, “reservoirs”, and eDNA Metabarcoding “watersheds”. Here’s what we could find: with Living Lakes The Alberta Party: Unspecified Canada! The Liberal Party: funding all watershed councils to develop Living Lakes land use planning documents and developing land use plans CANADA based on their recommendations. Interested in an exciting The NDP: have specified a Clean Lakes Strategy and stable opportunity to collect DNA samples from streams? uving multi-year funding for Watershed Planning and Advisory Lakes canada is looking for Councils. partners in the Bow River Basin for their STREAM The UCP: Unspecified project! Let’s find out what each of the parties has in store for our Find out more, ~ water! If you find yourself at a political forum, try asking Water Rangers! your candidates: “What are your plans to monitor and manage Alberta’s lakes, reservoirs, and their watersheds?” If you get any answers, let us know! You can also try running your own searches of the party platforms by using the links above! Happy voting!
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