Most publications listed here are available in PDF.  If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download it for free.

Through the Looking Glass: A Field Guide to Aquatic Plants
This delightful, large-format field guide to aquatic plants in North America is accessible and inviting to general readers, yet detailed enough for use by botanists and natural resource managers.

Aquatic Invasive Species: A Guide for Proactive and Reactive Management (Vilas County)

Aquatic Invasive Species Publications listing

Training Manuals

Water Clarity - Secchi Monitoring
Wisconsin Citizen Lake Monitoring Training Manual (Secchi Disk Procedures)  (revised 2009)  (full version, 3MB PDF) Individual Sections (exit to DNR)

Chemistry Procedures
Wisconsin Citizen Lake Monitoring Training Manual (Chemistry Procedures)- full version, 14.6 MB
(revised 2009)

Aquatic Invasive Species Monitoring
Wisconsin Citizen Lake Monitoring Training Manual - AIS Monitoring Procedures - full version, 16MB 
(revised May 2010)

Individual Chapters
Table of Contents, Contacts and Glossary
1) AIS Getting Started
2) Eurasian Water-milfoil
3) Curly-leaf Pondweed
4) Purple Loosestrife
5) Rusty Crayfish
6) Zebra and Quagga Mussels
7) Chinese and Banded Mystery Snails
8) Waterflea
9) Jellyfish
10) Hydrilla (Pilot)
11) New Zealand Mudsnail (Pilot)
12) Eurasian water-milfoil Weevil (Pilot)
       Weevil field guide - full color

Lakes with Invasives
For updated lists/maps of water bodies in Wisconsin where AIS have been verified, go to the Department of Natural Resources website at http://dnr.wi.gov/lakes/AIS/index.asp?folder=CLMN

For more information contact
Laura Herman, Citizen Lake Monitoring Network Education Specialist
(715) 365-8998  lherman@uwsp.edu

Or go to

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources site
at http://dnr.wi.gov/lakes/CLMN/ (exit WLP)