$100,000 was made available to help support citizen-based monitoring initiatives in 2006.
Successful proposals for the 2006-07 Partnership Program are listed below.
Riveredge Nature Center
This project has two major sub-programs with overlapping equipment and material needs. The
first is the Riveredge Ephemeral Pond Identification and Monitoring Program. The second is
the Riveredge Level II Citizen-Based Water Quality Monitoring Program. This project plans
to build staff training and participation in the WDNR 2006 Citizen-based Monitoring Level
II pilot program. The training will support up to 24 volunteer monitors within a geographic
area defined by the Milwaukee River Drainage Basin within Ozaukee and Washington Counties.
This project plans to prepare an introductory guide to Wisconsin’s sponges and create a
reporting mechanism for citizens to report the presence of sponges at a particular site.
These efforts will help assess the conservation status of Wisconsin sponges.
