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The Water C Lumn NON-PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PAID the Lewiston, ME Permit # 82 Water C lumn ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED The Newsletter of Lake Stewards of Maine - Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program Vol. 23, No. 1 Celebrating the Work of Maine's Citizen Lake Stewards Winter 2018-19 Climate Change... What can you find onwww.LakesOfMaine.org ? And Lakes Search lakes throughout the State of Maine and discover… • Physical characteristics • Fish, wildlife and plant diversity • Water quality, present and historical • Invasive aquatic species survey findings • Active Lake Stewards throughout Maine • Maps of all types • Conservation efforts in lake watersheds • Watershed management efforts • Published lake research documents • Graphic representation of lake data And much more! 36 What’s Inside : President's Message . 2 Lakeside Notes . 3 President’s Littorally Speaking ~ Invasive Species & Climate Change . 4 Quality Counts . 6 Under the Hand Lens ~ European Frog-bit . 7 Connecting the Drops ~ LSM Sustainability . 8 Message Development Team Tidbits . 9 Citizen Lake Science: Water Quality & Climate Change . 10 Bill Monagle IPP Notes from the Front Lines . 12 President, LSM Board of Directors Near Real-Time Lake Data . 15 Tips For IPPers . 16 ake Stewards of Maine the full board meets 5 times/year, Seeking Board Members . 17 L(LSM) is a fitting new name but the schedule for individual Thank You to our Generous Donors! . 18 for our organization. It speaks subcommittee meetings (in-person Beyond Clean, Drain, Dry: Advanced Protocols . 21 directly to the awesome efforts of or virtually) may take place on an Maine Lakes Water Quality Year in Review . 22 Matt Scott - Goodwill Lake Ambassador . 24 Maine’s volunteer lake monitors. as-needed basis. Members of the 2018 Annual Conference . 26 This name change is just one of board serve three-year terms, which Meet the 2018 Interns . 28 several steps that we are taking to can be renewed. Cyanotoxin Update . 30 make the continued work of our We are looking for potential Welcome to our New Lake Stewards! . 31 organization as clear, compelling Passings . 32 Directors who will bring a range Document Your Lake's Ice Cover . 33 and robust as possible. of experiences and knowledge to Building & Maintenance Committee . 34 As the organization continues the LSM board, including general Grant Funding for Watershed Surveys . 34 Lew Wetzel Dedication . 34 to grow, we are also focused on program development, social media expanding our Board of Directors. marketing, strategic financial LSM Staff Scott Williams Executive Director Toward that end, we have created a planning, volunteer and community Roberta Hill Invasive Species Program Director “Board Optimization Committee”, engagement, website design and Alison Cooney Development Coordinator the primary focus of which is to implementation, and more. Jonnie Maloney Program Coordinator solicit and vet potential board LSM’s Board champions Maine’s Christine Guerette Project Facilitator members. The committee is Steve Lambert Development Associate citizen lake scientists! If you’re Spencer Harriman Logistical Support Coordinator specifically seeking individuals interested in learning more about who have a strong alignment with Board of Directors becoming an LSM Director, please Bill Monagle, President (Winthrop) LSM’s Mission, and are willing to contact us. A member of our Board Barb Welch, Vice President (Whitefield) commit the time and energy asa Optimization Committee will be in Sibyl French, Treasurer (Raymond) working board member. Typically, Phoebe Hardesty, Secretary (New Gloucester) touch with you! Robert French (Raymond) Linda Bacon QA/QC Advisor (Maine DEP) LSM Mission Statement Advisory Board The Mission of Lake Stewards of Maine is to help protect Maine lakes through Aria Amirbahman, PhD Firooza Pavri, PhD widespread citizen participation in the gathering and dissemination of credible (Co-Chair) (Co-Chair) scientific information pertaining to lake health. LSM trains, certifies and provides Roy Bouchard, MS Matt Scott, MS technical support to hundreds of volunteers who monitor a wide range of indicators Dan Buckley, PhD Peter Vaux, PhD of water quality, assess watershed health and function, and screen lakes for invasive Holly Ewing, PhD Ken Wagner, PhD aquatic plants and animals. In addition to being the primary source of lake data in the C . Barre Hellquist, PhD Pixie Williams, MS State of Maine, LSM volunteers benefit their local lakes by playing key stewardship and David Littell, JD Karen Wilson, PhD leadership roles in their communities. Steve Norton, PhD Editorial Staff Funding for this newsletter is made possible in part by This newsletter is printed on 50% Scott Williams Alison Cooney grants from the Maine Department of Environmental post-consumer recycled paper, Roberta Hill Christine Guerette Protection, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and is produced and mailed Jonnie Maloney; Steve Lambert the Lake and River Protection Sticker Fund, individual by Penmor Lithographers, Layout & Design Spencer Harriman donations and corporate underwriting. Lewiston, Maine. Cover Photo: Long Pond in Livermore, by Jonnie Maloney the Water Column ©2019 Lake Stewards of Maine If you would like to go green and receive the Water Column in electronic format only, or if you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please contact LSM at (207) 783-7733 or [email protected]. To Contact Us (207) 783-7733 Stewards@LakeStewardsME org. 24 Maple Hill Road, Auburn, Maine 04210 www LakeStewardsOfMaine. org. | www LakesOfMaine. org. 2 35 Building & Maintenance Committee Headlines By Steve Lambert Lakeside Notes he LSM Center for Citizen Lake Science experienced LSM Development Associate, Building & Maintenance Committee Ta major facelift this summer. After years of aspiring Winter 2018-19 to improve the worn appearance of our headquarters, and ver time, we have had many It also became obvious that “lake months of planning and fundraising efforts, we finally had conversations about changing monitoring” isn’t exactly a self- our wishes realized. O the name of this organization. Earlier explanatory term. Most people outside Over the course of the summer, the aged and tired siding this year, following discussions of the organization who have known was replaced with new red cedar clapboards, which have with many of you, written surveys us only by our name have not had a By Scott Williams been stained a light gray. The arches that distinguish the provided by lake monitors, and a clue about what we do. A number of LSM Executive Director structure were rebuilt, and all the trim was wrapped in few trial balloons, the decision was alternatives were considered, including white aluminum. The garage windows were replaced with made to change the Maine Volunteer Citizen Lake Scientists of Maine, or Lake Stewards of Maine is easy to energy efficient and maintenance-free vinyl counterparts. Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) some combination of this wording, remember. It’s not a tongue twister, and We added a storm door to Lake Stewards of Maine (LSM). none of which addressed all of the the name broadly characterizes the great to the unprotected front We anticipated a certain amount of issues mentioned above. work that you all do, year after year. entrance, and corrected confusion and pushback, but much to Maybe you’re attached to “VLMP”, and drainage issues in back The LSM Center for Citizen Lake Science got a facelift last fall with new red- don’t want to let go? Well, that’s OK too. cedar clapboards . our relief, little to none occurred. of the main building. Full disclosure: we, too, were reluctant to If you have been a Certified “Volunteer To top it all off, a new let go of the old name completely, and installed on the large central chimney. The place looks Lake Monitor” for multiple decades, stainless steel cap was “Maine VLMP” has been retained as beautiful, and is well-protected from the elements. you may know that this is the second part of the legal, but generally unspoken, Thanks to the ongoing passion and dedication of our time that the name has been changed name of the organization. Thanks to all volunteer lake stewards, who inspire all of us to ensure the or modified in nearly 50 years. From of you who have taken the time to share fulfillment of our mission, we were able to find the means 1971 to when the organization became your thoughts with us about making to make the above-mentioned facilities improvements, an independent nonprofit organization the change. ensuring the long-term integrity of the historic building twenty-two years ago, the name that houses LSM's Center for Citizen Lake Science. was simply “Volunteer Monitoring In honor of our new name and all that Program” – a good start, but it lacked it represents, we are working to put Grant Funding Available to Lake Groups for Conducting Watershed Surveys information about who we are and Two years ago we learned from surveys together a multi-media compendium what we do. Adding Maine and Lakes completed by a diverse group of of lake stories, which we intend to SM anticipates a continuation of the citizen lake watershed of the pollutants phosphorus and sediment - to Maine’s to the name helped to address that our constituents that many of you share in a variety of ways. Stay tuned survey small grants program to lake associations and lakes. Details concerning the process of conducting a survey for more details. Lcommunities in 2019. More information will be forthcoming can be viewed at: www.maine.gov/dep/land/watershed/ shortcoming, but it created another consider your good work on behalf of early in the year. materials/lakewsurveyguide.pdf. one, which was a lengthy name that Maine’s lakes to fall within the realm There is no question that the exceptional didn’t exactly roll off the tongue. of “stewardship”. Various definitions Lake watershed surveys conducted by community volunteers Citizen (volunteers) Watershed surveys are a very effective commitment and dedication of People mangled it in every conceivable of stewardship include “the careful and are an effective tool for identifying and resolving land use component for building community support for long-term LSM volunteers over the past 48 manner.
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