Lake Wissota Fixed Point Photo Stations

In order to keep track of the conditions of our lake, the Lake Wissota Stewardship Project (LWSP) is placing Fixed Point Photo stations around the lake. Anyone who has a phone with a camera is able to use the phone stand to take their photo of the lake and submit it online for us to put up on this story map. Here we can keep track of the progress our conservation practices are making for the health of our lake. This also allows us to observe different changes and phenomenon on the lake, like our seasonal algae blooms or the erosion of the islands and shores.

When it rains, the water that reaches the earth goes either into our groundwater or runs off the land into streams. These streams carry the water and everything it picked up along the way into our rivers and lakes. This means that fertilizers, pesticides, oils, and other chemicals make their way to our surface and ground waters.

Chippewa Conty Land Conservation and Forest Management works with producers to perform conservation practices on the land that stop the flow of these harmful substances into our water.