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Synthetic Liners: Explained

By Wisconsin Lake & Pond Resource Staff Most often, a typical site visit begins with a property owner pointing to the lowest area of their property for a pond. The majority of property owners think that this is the best location to look at when a...

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How to Become the Envy of Your Neighborhood?

By Cory Zickert Senior Aquatic Manager/Owner When you visit your friends, neighbors or relatives' homes do you ever find yourself slipping outside to check out their backyard? What did they do with landscaping? Or what kind of playset did they put in...

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Bluegill vs. Hybrid Bluegill

What Should You Add to Your Pond? By Joey Berg Aquatic Field Biologist, Fisheries Specialist “Bluegill? Hybrid Bluegill? No Bluegill at all?” There are definitely some considerations when deciding how to stock (or restock) a waterbody. All waterbodie...

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Fish Stocking Q & A

By Joseph Berg Aquatic Biologist, Fisheries Specialist We Have Answers! Although ice covers much of Wisconsin’s water, many people are looking forward to open water thinking about stocking fish in lakes or ponds. Fish are a popular item for lake and ...

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Are you on our 2020 Management Schedule?

If not, contact us to find out how! Our happiest and most satisfied clients routinely have a biologist on site. Residential Commercial Recreational Stormwater We provide a wide array of pond management services custom-tailored to YOUR pond! Professio...

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Muck, Sludge and Mud: When Is There Too Much?

by Zach Haas Senior Aquatic Biologist Did you know Mother Nature wants to fill your pond in over time, and how devastating this can be on your pond? If you didn’t, now is the time to determine how much of a sleeping issue you have building up at the ...

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The Importance of Nutrients in Aquatic Systems

By: Nicholas Lorge Aquatic Field Biologist As an owner of a pond, you may be curious about what causes algae blooms and vegetation to become a problem. Many factors are at play, but one of the most prominent is related to the amount of nutrients avai...

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Rain is a Good Thing... Or is it?

By Zach Hass Senior Biologist/Operations Manager The past few years the Midwest has been getting many rain storms come through with some of these bringing an obscene amount of rain with them. These storms not only help keep your water levels up, but ...

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Ice Safety Tips

Here in Wisconsin it seems our winters are ever changing. Winters from one year to next have heavy snow events at the beginning and light at the end or vice versa. Temperatures can vary from tolerable to “Why do I live here?” cold, which can be good ...

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