tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77546100069143709462024-03-04T23:38:27.353-06:00 Winnebago Conservation Photography:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-34014504974637166862014-01-29T12:14:00.000-06:002014-02-26T22:59:30.170-06:00BLOG MOVING TO A NEW WEBSITE!!!This blog is moving to a new website and blog. <br />
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As always, thanks for viewing and commenting. :)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-27749201775422867302013-11-13T15:04:00.000-06:002013-11-13T15:06:35.837-06:00Swamp White-tailThis white-tailed deer came to see what was making the rustling noise in the leaves. I could just make it out as it left the safety to dogwood, walked through the tall grasses, and finally poked its head up to take a look at me. It was probably only a trip of 100 feet, but it made me feel like I was an import curiosity for this buck. For a change I had a telephoto lens on the camera because I had been chasing a white-breasted nuthatch. I was unable to get a nice photo of him, but got this nice portrait of the deer. <br />
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<br />:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-88574255944235712482013-08-31T08:06:00.001-05:002013-08-31T08:06:46.003-05:00Under the 41 Bridge<br />
The former hwy 41 bridge over Lake Butte des Morts, just outside Oshkosh, was one of those serviceable pieces of architecture like the communists built. There has been a trend of late to make bridges more interesting without breaking the bank, and this was certainly achieved under the Butte des Morts bridge. The addition of a foot bridge (not yet open) is also forward thinking, but I'm not sure it will get much use. Also there is fishing access under the bridge another nice touch, but again I'm not sure how much use it will get. One never knows, it may become an institution. <br />
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-83645651617924408342013-05-28T08:16:00.001-05:002013-05-28T08:16:25.447-05:00Life Jacket Loaner StationI ran across this while fishing, and playing with the kids at Lake Winneconne Park, a kiosk with life jackets for kids. I think it is a pretty cool idea, at least until some tries to start a fire in the life jacket bin. <br />
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<br />:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-16996127349814288992013-03-01T17:51:00.001-06:002015-11-27T11:46:35.121-06:00Be Kind to Canes<span style="font-size: x-small;">Reprinted from the <a href="http://oshkosh.scenenewspaper.com/" target="_blank">Oshkosh Scene</a> newspaper with additional photos of cane beds and birds that nest in them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The East Channel Canes on Lake Poygan may seem to have a strange name, but once upon a time there was a corresponding West Channel Canes, and even more surprising is this is the place where the Wolf River used to empty into <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/fox-wolf-winnebago/lake-poygan/">Lake Poygan</a>. Now these few scattered cane beds are all that remain of a huge wetland complex destroyed by flooding, waves and ice. Without restoration these too will be lost.</td></tr>
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On the Lake Winnebago Upper Pool lakes there is a rare
habitat called cane beds that are popular fish, wildlife, and the human
enthusiasts that follow them. These beds
are composed of a native strain of <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/emergent-plants/common-reed-phragmites-australis/">Common Reed (<i>Phragmites australis</i>)</a>. Our
native strain is an important part of Wisconsin’s wetland ecosystems, but there
is a variety originating from Europe that is highly invasive. These aquatic plants are the remains of
wetlands lost since the damming of the <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/fox-wolf-winnebago/upper-fox-river/">Fox River</a> in the 1850’s. Where it was firmly rooted it survived the
breakup of the surrounding marsh and the near permanent flooding. Although they are tough plants, and survived
the high water, they too have been slowly fading away. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Historically several of the cane beds have been used by
colonies of the endangered Forster’s Tern.
If you have never seen a Forster’s tern, picture a gull and cross it
with a jet fighter. These birds are fun
to watch. Terns will cruise around the
lakes searching for small fish, and when a bird spots one it begins to
hover. Then locked on its prey, the tern
drops from the sky, wings partially folded back, and plunges into the
water. The bird briefly disappears and
then flies up and away. Depending on the
time of year the tern may give the fish to its mate, or one of its chicks. These terns are endangered because their nesting
habitat, floating mats of vegetation, are no longer that common. On the Winnebago Upper Pool Lakes, the cane
beds have shrunken and so has the Forster’s Tern population. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Why are the cane beds disappearing? The main reason is they really don’t belong
where they are. Common reed grows best
on wet, but not flooded wetland soils, not in standing water year after
year. In such waters they are vulnerable
to ice, wave and flood damage. It is
obviously important not to break off living stems of these plants in deep
water, but what is far less obvious is that it is equally important not to
break off dead stems. The dead stems act
as breathing tubes and drive oxygen down into the roots were it is especially
needed in early spring before the plants send out green shoots. Driving a snowmobile through the beds in winter
or a boat in spring breaks off the stems at or below the waterline and the lack
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If you enjoy fishing the canes, stay out, motor around and
fish the edges. If you duck hunt, never
run your motor through the canes, and take care to damage as few stems as
possible while concealing yourself. If
you enjoy swimming near the canes, never tie your boat up to or throw an anchor
among them. If we take care of them they
will last longer, but they require management beyond individuals being
kind. Water level management needs to be
changed to allow for better growth, and sediment that has washed away over the
last 160 years may need to be returned.
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In Wisconsin we should know better, but we forget that ice
is power. Our lakes like to remind us of
this, with crystalline beauty and crushing power of ice with wind at its back. Winnebago was gouged out by the Green Bay Lobe
of the Wisconsin Glacier. That sheet of
ice made the bathtub that is our lake, and as the ice sat there it dammed what
we know as the Fox River and created glacial Lake Oshkosh which spread across
the landscape. As fine sediment dropped
out of the water of that lake, it created a flat lake bed of clay and silt
which is what Oshkosh and much of Winnebago County is. My house is on the bottom of a lake. When the glacier receded, Glacial Lake
Oshkosh drained out the Fox River to Lake Michigan, and the deep basin filled
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The ice on the lake this winter is barely a foot thick child
of the mile high monster that carved out the lake, but it is still a force to
be respected. Water has the most
peculiar of traits. As it forms a solid
by cooling it gets larger, unlike everything else we experience. It only expands a little, but over the span
of miles it adds up. It also expands
with tremendous force. Think of the
expansion of water into ice bursting through iron pipes. Ice is a nearly unstoppable force to be
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Ice can be brutal, but to many it is a source of delight as
it is danger. Snowmobiling, ice fishing,
walking, ice skating, hockey, or just running and sliding are a few of the activities
to enjoy on the ice. Ice provides
everyone access to the lake. Fishermen
without boats are no longer confined to the shore, docks or bridges. They can wander out onto the lakes with a
bucket and the most simple of fishing gear. Ice does not discriminate based on one’s
economic standing. Thin ice or cracks
can swallow up an SUV or a person on foot just as easily, and every year
someone goes down and all too often does not come back up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little icebergs, Lake Winnebago Oshkosh, Wi</td></tr>
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Like everything to do with lakes, ice is controversial. For over a hundred years the water level of
the Winnebago system is drawn down throughout the winter to make way for the
snow smelt and spring rains. This also
has the perceived benefit of reducing ice damage. While there may be some benefits to shore protection
from ice expansion it does little to prevent damage from ice shoves. Ice shoves on Lake Winnebago can climb uphill,
reaching spectacular heights in no time with the right wind, and like miniature
glaciers bulldoze everything in their path.
The dams that control water levels cannot physically draw the lake down
far enough to prevent this damage, and if they could there would be severe
damage to habitat that fish and wildlife depend on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On calm nights with the temperature dropping you can hear
the ice boom as it contracts and cracks.
Walk along the shore of Menominee park if you are unsure of the ice on
one of these nights and you can hear the power building. The ice is restless. The constant shifts of temperature changes,
the sun, and the wind are always weakening the ice even as it gets
thicker. It can take months for ice to
be thick enough to support the weight of a car, but in a few short weeks it
degrades and piles up on shore. Lake ice
is something of a troubled teenager struggling to be noticed as it makes its
way in the world in the shadow of a famous parent. It throws tantrums, creates trouble, and then
burns out, ends up in rehab, builds up to something delightful, and throws
another tantrum.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Previously published in the <a href="http://oshkosh.scenenewspaper.com/" target="_blank">Oshkosh Scene</a>. </div>
:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-45603118928264280502013-01-08T06:30:00.001-06:002020-10-19T20:48:53.272-05:00Under a Frozen World<br />
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The lakes and marshes become quiet in the winter when the
ice covers the lakes and snow blankets the surrounding marshes, but life
continues below ice and snow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tunneling through the snow are a number of little mammals. Mice, voles, and shrews enjoy the relative
safety provided by their tunnels. There
they are free from the piercing eyes of hawks, but are still vulnerable to the
ears and talons of great-horned owls and pouncing foxes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the lake bottoms are the flying insects of summer. The billions of lake flies of spring are all
there as the larva called bloodworms.
Keeping company with sediment, decaying plants and rocks are the larva
of caddisflies, damselflies, dragon flies, and mayflies that will emerge from
the lake and take flight in spring and summer. All of these are food throughout the winter
for bluegills, perch and other fish. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Up the food chain there are reptiles we envision hibernating
in the mud. Some turtles and frogs are
indeed buried in the mud, but others are piled up sitting on the lake bottom
motionless or crawling along at a snail’s pace.
Common map turtles sit on the bottom or wedge themselves amongst rocks
and logs. When disturbed they retreat,
and may reveal a northern leopard frog underneath, which will also swim
away. Hardly asleep, these map turtles
require more oxygen than painted turtles buried in the sometimes anoxic mud. The cold and relative inactivity allows them
to take in all the oxygen they need from water.
Frogs and softshell turtles breathe through their skin, but softshells
also take in oxygen through special adaptions in their throats. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Lake Winnebago at Oshkosh</td></tr>
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Mammals have no options but to breathe air. The local aquatic members of the weasel family--river
otter and mink--must maintain holes in the ice with their teeth to be able to
gain access to the fish, frogs, turtles and other animals they eat. Muskrats often use the same holes, but they
try to stay concealed, and will never walk on ice and snow if they can avoid
it. Muskrats build huts, or lodges like
beavers do, but muskrat homes are made of aquatic plant leaves, stems, and
roots. Here they sleep and eat, but they
often swim far beyond the range of one breath to obtain the food they
need. For those foraging trips they
build cave-like “push ups” for breathing.
They will also build small feeding huts, which are self-explanatory. A sudden drop in water levels after the ice
forms seals off all these structures from the muskrats’ food, forcing them onto
ice and snow and into the jaws of coyotes.
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Winter is a harsh time for wildlife, but it can be easier
under the ice and snow for those adapted to it.<br />
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Previously published in the <a href="http://oshkosh.scenenewspaper.com/" target="_blank">Oshkosh Scene</a> article.</div>
:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-10904410526714924982012-12-26T10:29:00.001-06:002013-03-02T09:02:53.420-06:00Little Trappers<br />
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The early morning light catches a dew speckled web in the
marsh. You can see such webs driving
down the road, riding a bike, but it is best on foot. You can observe the intricacies of the web,
contemplate the mastery of the spinner with just a tiny speck for a brain, and
never a teacher, or even a YouTube mentor to show it how it’s done. Look close at the round globes of dew hanging
from the web and notice the upside down, reversed and distorted world
inside. In a web you can read the story
from the night before. A hole in the web
might indicate that some large insect, like a katydid crashed into the web
tearing the silken threads. You can find
last night’s meal still stuck, or perhaps a snack all bundled up to be eaten
later. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are watching close to your feet as you walk, you’ll
probably miss the web maker altogether, they will have dropped from view before
you reach them. Look ahead a little way
as you walk and you’ll see them. As you
approach some will drop out of sight, but every now and then a slow approach
and a cool morning the web spinner will stay dead center. Some are small, and some are huge, at least
by my standards. These are some of the
orb weaver spiders. I could tell you
some facts about orb weavers, but I must admit I’d have to go research them,
and for me the orb weavers are like stars, they are for looking at in
wonder. I care not for the names of
stars, what they are made of. I may know
some of those things, but when I look up at the sky it is a time to feel; to
feel awe, to feel small and not to think.
When I look deep into the many eyes of the orb weavers I feel afraid,
and feel it is time to move on. Go
search out the orb weavers if you dare.
You can find them in the marshes, prairies, and fields all around. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Previously published in the <a href="http://oshkosh.scenenewspaper.com/" target="_blank">Oshkosh Scene</a>.<br />
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-7611236674236938412012-11-24T14:14:00.002-06:002015-01-06T11:33:15.937-06:00Finally a new post.I've been writing for the <a href="http://oshkosh.scenenewspaper.com/">Oshkosh Scene</a> newspaper most of this year, my work <a href="http://lakepuckaway.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, and I'm back in school, so I haven't been posting here much, but I'll start posting my Scene articles now. The Oshkosh Scene can be found around Oshkosh for free most places, and it also available in a few newspaper machines. Here is my unedited article for November Issue. The article was originally written for the Winnebago Water Level Fluctuation Group. <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Generations of the Winnebago
System<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the first pioneers settled
around the Winnebago Pool Lakes in the middle of the nineteenth century, many
made a living off the land and water.
Man and nature worked together, and also against one another. The Fox River was “tamed” by dams, the
prairie sod broken, but nature too had her floods and droughts to remind us who
really is in charge. In and around the
Winnebago Pool Lakes much of the environment was degraded. This environmental degradation changed the
way people interacted with the land and water. To understand how let’s follow a fictitious
family through history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 1841 a Norwegian man named
Theodore Olson and his young wife Anna are settling on the north shore of Lake
Poygan. They have hastily erected a mud
and stick house to keep the coming winter storms out. In just two years time their first home will
become the chicken coop, but for now it makes Theodore beam with pride, almost
as much as the moose antlers above the door.
That big deer, the last one in the county, will feed this family through
the winter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Theodore has chosen the perfect
spot for his farm. There is plenty of
high ground to raise cattle and grow vegetables, corn, wheat and potatoes, but
his land includes an insurance policy.
By the lake grow the grass-like <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/wetland-plant-communities/sedge-meadows/" target="_blank">sedge meadows</a> that are flooded in the
spring and dry out in the summer. Every
year he’ll be able to cut marsh hay, and when the periodic droughts come, those
meadows will make good pasture and keep the cows healthy and producing milk
through the worst drought. But this
year, his first, is blessed with normal rainfal and he walks through the meadow
to see the lake. When he arrives he can
hear the rhythmic clicking of sticks and the dancing of <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/emergent-plants/wild-rice-zizania-spp/">wild rice</a> grains on the
bottom of a birch bark canoe. The
Menominee are harvesting the grain on the north side of the lake today. They know it would be fruitless to work the
south side where 150,000 passenger pigeons darkened the horizon three days
before. For Theodore it seems that God
has sent a gift: meat runs wild on the
land, fills the skies and the waters around his farm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That begins to change for the
young family in the early 1850s when dams in Neenah and Menasha raise the water
and consume some of his sedge meadow insurance policy. The biggest blow to Theodore comes in 1863
when his oldest son, Lester marries a German girl and according to his father
“turns Indian,” abandons the farm and settles on Lake Winneconne. Lester
catches fish in the spring and summer which he sells in Oshkosh, in fall he
sets he guides duck hunters from Milwaukee and Chicago. In the winter Lester traps plentiful muskrat
and mink and once in a while the rapidly dwindling beaver and otter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lester’s brother Miles took over
the farm on Lake Poygan, which is still thriving in 1880, but in 1881 a spring
thaw down the Wolf River and unusually heavy rainfall in summer combine for
flood of near biblical proportions that won’t end until winter. One summer morning, after a terrible storm,
Miles goes for a morning walk and is horrified to see his meadow out in the
lake drifting helplessly to Lake Winnebago.
His insurance policy is gone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lester has only daughters that
will defiantly follow in their father’s marsh rat footsteps. One of his girls, Martha, marries Carl, a foreman
of the Paine Lumber Company in Oshkosh.
Carl watches the rafts of pine logs coming down the Wolf River start a
new life as clapboards, lath, doors, widow sashes, and matchsticks. When the Northern Forests become empty and
the river of logs turns into a trickle and then runs dry, Carl retires. In his retirement he turns sportsman. He fishes in summer for still plentiful
northern pike at the edge of bulrushes on Lake Butte des Morts. In fall he push-poles a wooden skiff through
the wild rice while his son Albert sits at the ready for any ducks they may
flush. There are still many ducks, but
Carl explains they are not what they used to be. He blames the market hunters and out-of-town
hunters. He is partially right about the
market hunters, but each year there is less of this rice, marsh and prairie
where they breed, winter, and stop over during migration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 1910 Albert helps his great
uncle Miles load a few of his prized possessions onto a train bound for
Milwaukee. It is the last year of a
three-year drought. His land did not
produce enough forage for his cows or grain for the mill, and the farm went
bust. His insurance policy against
drought had floated away and disintegrated in Lake Winnebago in 1881 and so
ended 69 years of his family farming the north shore of Lake Poygan, and 1,500
years of the Olson farming tradition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 1937 the last modifications to
raise the waters of the Winnebago Pool were made. The managers of the dams got better and
better at taming the waters of the lakes.
Theodore Olson’s line still looks to the water, Albert’s son Jeff cuts
through Lake Winnebago in his Chris-Craft.
Even on the big lake there are still more than a few beds of bulrush to steer
clear of, but each year the bulrushes and the submerged plants are few and
fewer. Without them, blue gills, northern
pike and the ducks rapidly declined in number.
Those plants held the sediment in place, and dampened wave action, and
their decline ushered in an era of brown water.
The coming generations continue to use the lake for fishing and hunting,
but with less success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2012, fighting the wind and
three foot waves of Lake Poygan, Justin, the eighth generation after Theodore
on the lakes, motors with 150 horses in his deep v fishing boat smashing big
brown waves is drenched in spray. He
glides over the same spot that Theodore pastured cows, Albert hunted ducks
among the wild rice, his father fished for pike. There is no sedge meadow, no wild rice or
even bulrushes, and none of these are even visible on the horizon. No ducks bob up and down in these waves, no
pike wait in ambush among the bulrush, and certainly no cows graze. He has the memory of his father’s story of
pike, and a vague recollection of the legend of tens of thousands of ducks. Sadly, the rest of the family’s past
connections to land and water, and even the location of the original farm he
now passes, have been lost in the oral memory of generations. His two little girls huddled under a poncho
will not know of the loss of what was. In
the safety of Boom Bay they pass the few sad remaining wild rice plants; their
names and the name of every other plant that supported a people, an economy and
their own blood line are collectively called “weeds”. To the next generation, these girls will give
the gift of memory of chasing walleye, and a few good fish fries. Where will they tell this story of walleye? Will it be a story told as they fish for
bullheads and carp in black water? A
different story can be written, where there are walleyes, but also monster
pike, thousands of ducks, and clear water. A new chapter in the family’s oral
history will be told while watching bluegills larger than man’s hand violently
make a bobber disappear from view, causing her four year-old daughter to grin
ear to ear, and the stories of no ducks and brown water will pass into
legend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-87348549589505140622012-05-14T08:48:00.002-05:002015-01-03T15:35:59.309-06:002012 FloodHigh water over the last week and a half is talking its toll on both wildlife and habitat. Those familiar with habitat on the Winnebago Upper Pool Lakes know that thousands of acres of marsh have been lost because of the break up of floating "bogs". When water rises the intertangled roots that from a sort of sod rip from the underling soil and float. During high winds or ice break up in spring these mats break off and float down and usually disintegrate in Lake Winnebago. When there was more marsh hundreds of acres could be lost in one event. Friday a steady wind developed and began ripping the marsh apart one small piece at a time. I witnessed a dozen of these small mats floating within the break wall at Terrell's Island and coming out of the Fox River at Lake Butte des Morts. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floating <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/emergent-plants/invasive-cattails-typha-angustifolia-t-x-glauca/" target="_blank">cattail</a> "bog", exiting Terrell's Island marsh. </td></tr>
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High water also plays havoc with birds nesting close to the water's surface. During a nest count May 8th with the DNR I observed perhaps a hundred flooded pelican nests and a dozen or so drown chicks, and the water was still rising. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pelican nest in the process of being flooded. Parents were <br />
still attempting to incubate partially flooded nests. </td></tr>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-60680621546452650582012-03-15T21:44:00.000-05:002014-04-23T08:09:46.589-05:00Waukau Creek Salmon<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small northern pike running the rapids</td></tr>
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Fish were once again heading up Waukau Creek to try and spawn in Rush Lake. Most will be blocked by the carp barrier, but they try until they are exhausted. Yellow perch, northern pike, white sucker, and other species of sucker all play salmon as they attempt to run the rapids.<br />
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Click for: <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/northern-pike-esox-luscious-migration/" target="_blank">2014 Northern Pike Spawning Migration</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exhausted pike (7 inches long) mostly out of water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow perch attempting flight</td></tr>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-48521846503192353512012-03-15T11:40:00.000-05:002012-03-15T11:40:30.438-05:00Talk on White Pelicans and Double-Crested Cormorants<div class="MsoNormal">Art Techlow III, DNR biologist, will discuss the exploding population of white pelicans and double-crested cormorants in the area— what’s true, and what’s not—and what the DNR is doing to help manage these large birds. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a Lakes Council Speaker Series event. The public is invited.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, March 28, 2012<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">At the Stone Toad:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">1109 Oneida Street<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Menasha, WI 54952 <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.stonetoadbarandgrill.com/<o:p></o:p></div>:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-57083243153496905792012-01-20T14:05:00.014-06:002014-04-27T11:58:49.425-05:00Odds and Ends #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Coontail Growth Time Lapse</div>
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Fishy Foo, Photos of sunfish (centrachids) from my aquarium.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Young Bluegill (<i>Lepomis macrochirus</i>) <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Young green sunfish (<i>Lepomis cyanellus</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Head on view of a bluegill</td></tr>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-25316722383347306512012-01-12T13:33:00.000-06:002012-01-12T13:33:00.589-06:00Odds and Ends #1# 1 Signs<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Much of the current lake bottom of Butte des Mort, Winneconne, and Poygan was once marsh which was owned <br />
by farmers and hunting clubs, so the lake bottom is the property of some individuals. There is practically nothing <br />
you can do with the property other than not have duck hunters place blinds on it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I find it pathetic that those who benefit the most from public land are those who abuse it the most. However, it is<br />
certainly the minority of hunters that blast signs. This sign shows a partnership between Pheasants Forever and the <br />
DNR to clean up the area, and what better way is there to show your appreciation that to turn the sign into trash.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-62577872374412611912012-01-05T22:28:00.001-06:002013-03-02T09:19:52.020-06:00Waiting for the Eastern Glow<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Predawn Glow</td></tr>
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It has been far too long since I’ve watched the sun rise, or set. Today I took the time to watch the sun come up over Poygan Marsh.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning Trees</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmxMPloEkT4oQSP-uFGyhe3Xo8jAMQSkx3MDxs1bA3r-xbbRWP62rel48GvlzOZ1JcLuKb28S4ccyL7bTupir0xcH2TtiJaKfWqcIz0wz0q5HZETkEhcQsxkJAt15m8mts7QxYb992CI/s1600/DSC01563.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Drainage Ice" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmxMPloEkT4oQSP-uFGyhe3Xo8jAMQSkx3MDxs1bA3r-xbbRWP62rel48GvlzOZ1JcLuKb28S4ccyL7bTupir0xcH2TtiJaKfWqcIz0wz0q5HZETkEhcQsxkJAt15m8mts7QxYb992CI/s400/DSC01563.JPG" title="Frozen Ditch" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Ditch</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkvqCZhQOHGbkJuvQRrnG0JjFuHpV-boWaPC8uFemGe37jXuUY4FYClHlBNRX97EfMJ3AACD4JGSgMWNVf_42pKq4UpSltH_ODIVtp01_nVk_kcf7Wokk358GuB2UQG1HIr6H-JBtPBJo/s1600/DSC01599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cloud Wisps" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkvqCZhQOHGbkJuvQRrnG0JjFuHpV-boWaPC8uFemGe37jXuUY4FYClHlBNRX97EfMJ3AACD4JGSgMWNVf_42pKq4UpSltH_ODIVtp01_nVk_kcf7Wokk358GuB2UQG1HIr6H-JBtPBJo/s400/DSC01599.JPG" title="Contrails" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contrails</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marsh Sunrise</td></tr>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-20159570207475627782011-12-18T16:45:00.001-06:002014-04-23T08:10:46.655-05:00Ice Returns<div class="MsoNormal">
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The ice has returned over the last few weeks. Lurking under a pile of grass at the water’s edge of some slough or bay are some slivers of ice. There they will hold out until the weather turns cold again. First they will spread their cold fingers throughout the ditches, sloughs. Next will be the bays and the leeward shores of the lakes. Then on some cold, clear, calm night Lake Winnebago will be encased in a thin black prison that will thicken, gather snow, and then the well-insulated feet of ice fisherman and finally their Suburbans, Explorers, and F150s. The marshes are lonely and quiet, the ice of the lakes is lonely too, but the ice grumbles and booms as the temperature changes and the wind blows. On an angry night in late winter, the ice, weakened by the coming spring, will team up with the wind to invade the land, crushing docks, trees, sheds and everything in its path. The ice will sit stacked up in shame at the water’s edge watching the sun overhead end its reign over lake and slough. The ice will not be thought of again until those first frosts end summer, and in October and November, little slivers of ice hide under marsh grass and advance and retreat, advance and retreat...<o:p></o:p></div>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-87303735160636838492011-10-31T06:09:00.001-05:002011-10-31T06:10:49.907-05:00Winnebago Pool Lakes Conference<div class="yiv628523248MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Winnebago Lakes Council will host the second annual Winnebago Pool Lakes Conference <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1320058775_1">on Saturday, November 5th</span>. The event will take place <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1320058775_2">8:45 am</span> to noon at the Fin n’ Feather in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1320058775_3">Winneconne</span>. </span></div><div class="yiv628523248MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div>:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-52196226967661824092011-10-13T09:41:00.001-05:002015-11-27T11:44:26.389-06:00Page's Slough Plant Survey<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Page’s Slough is a backwater of the <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/fox-wolf-winnebago/wolf-river/">Wolf River</a>, just upstream on <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/fox-wolf-winnebago/lake-poygan/">Lake Poygan</a>, but at first glance it looks like it drains directly into the lake. Like most things on the Winnebago System, Page’s Slough is big, about 139 acres. Essentially it is a shallow water lake. This big backwater is managed for fish and wildlife habitat. In the past the slough has had an abundant population of curly-leaf pond weed, an invasive species, and early this summer it was observed to be abundant. It was feared native plants would be hurt. <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/curlyleaf-pondweed-potamogeton-crispus/">Curly-leaf pondweed</a> is different than our native vegetation in that it begins to grow in fall, comes on strong in the spring and early summer, and begins to die back in late June, or early July. If it came on strong then it might have strangled the native vegetation. </div>
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On a nice day in late August I’m there with Art Techlow, DNR, and my wife and note taker Rebecca. I stand at the bow with a modified garden rake in hand, looking like some kind of demented gardener. The rake is metal, with two sets of teeth back to back, and has an eight foot metal pole. Art pilots the boat from one predetermined GPS point to another, and I drop the rake down, spin it around and 93% of the time I pull up a green spaghetti of aquatic plants in muck sauce. Most of the plants are <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/coontail-ceratophyllum-demersum/" target="_blank">coontail</a> and <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/common-waterweed-elodea-canadensis/" target="_blank">Canadian waterweed (Elodea)</a>; these aren't particularly good plants for waterfowl in themselves, but they feed and hide millions of insects, crustaceans, and small fish relished by the birds. Page’s Slough is packed with vegetation, the vast majority of it native. Since this is only an observational study and not an experiment I can’t say much for sure. All I know is that this year’s abundant curly-leaf pondweed seems to have had little negative impact, no impact, or an undetermined positive impact on the abundance of native vegetation. In any case it is good for this lake…I mean slough.<br />
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I took a walk through Poygan State Wildlife Area yesterday morning. A red-tailed hawk greeted me at the gate, and tolerated my presence probably because the hunting was good. The sedges are beginning to change colors and many of the other plants have tinges of brown or yellow on the tips of their leaves. Even though many are shutting down, a few are just getting started blooming. The bumble bees seem less vigorous than they used to, these workers are burning out. They have worked hard and none will survive the winter. The water in the marsh's ditches is low, but filled with wood ducks, a few mallards and at least one blue-wing teal. But there are some other interesting birds that catch my eye. <br />
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At first sight they look like birds that left the nest too soon. They have the ungainly bodies of plucked chickens and flap their short wings in an almost hopeless flight. These are not babies though, they are <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/sora/id">Sora</a>--a little member of the rail family. Like many rails, they are seldom seen. They would rather run through the grass and sedge than take flight to escape danger. Their flight muscles are weak, it is amazing that they will be able to migrate anywhere. These sora are most abundant among the wild rice stems where I flush one and hear perhaps a dozen others, some only 15 feet away. They look more like chickens than anything else, and love the wild rice grains. Soon these little guys will be flapping those unlikely wings across the US Gulf Coast all the way to the Northern coast of South America. Good luck guy, I'll see you--no, hear you--next year.<br />
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Joe-Pye Weeds are among our most attractive wetland plants. They bloom in late summer and fall, adding a touch of color in an increasingly drab landscape. The plant is said to be named after Joe-Pye a Native American Herbalist on the East Coast of the United States.<br />
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-81210806547329762292011-08-14T09:25:00.002-05:002015-01-06T11:35:11.644-06:00What is the difference: emergent, submergent floating leaf, and free-floating plants?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Emergents</b> emerge or have a large portion of their shoots, leaves or flowering structures out of the water. These include the familiar cattails, and also bulrushes, <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/emergent-plants/wild-rice-zizania-spp/">wild rice</a>, sedges, bur-reed and many others.</div>
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<b>Submergent</b> plants have most of their structures below water. Common examples of these would be <a href="http://youtu.be/EqmHUrBwohA" target="_blank">coontail</a>, milfoils, and many pondweeds.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Submergent Plants:<a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/coontail-ceratophyllum-demersum/" target="_blank"> Coontail</a>, <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/common-waterweed-elodea-canadensis/" target="_blank">Elodea (Canadian Waterweed)</a>, <br />
<a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/submergent-plants/wild-celery-vallisneria-americana/" target="_blank">Wild Celery</a>, Water Strar-grass, Chara</td></tr>
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<b>Floating-leaf plants </b>have large floating leaves. They include the water-lilies, some pondweeds, and American lotus, although the latter often protrude from the water.<br />
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<b>Free-floating</b> plants include the duckweeds, common bladderwort and often coontail. Coontail is sometimes rooted, but it is dislodged easily by wave action and will continue growing in a floating mass, or tangled in with other plants.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/aquatic-plants-emergent-submergent-floating-leaf/free-floating-plants/duckweed-and-watermeal-2/" target="_blank">Free-floating plant: Least Duckweed (<i>Lemna minor</i>)</a></td></tr>
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:)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13071178228875609380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7754610006914370946.post-21731563287206397632011-08-12T08:26:00.001-05:002014-02-21T09:34:43.759-06:00Plant of the Week: Common or Giant Bur-reed (Sparganium eurycarpum)<br />
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Common bur-reed is an emergent plant of shallow water with sword shaped leaves and mace shaped seed heads. The corn kernel sized seeds (achenes) are often eaten by waterfowl, and shore birds. Muskrats eat the entire plant, and the tubers are eatable by humans. <br />
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More about <a href="http://www.lakeandwetlandecosystems.com/plants/grass-like-plants/common-or-giant-bur-reed-sparganium-eurycarpum/" target="_blank">Bur reed</a></div>
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