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Promoting a healthy Lake Wingra through an active watershed community.
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Welcome

We are happy to present lakewingra.org, Friends of Lake Wingra's home on the web. We have tried to effectively provide information about FOLW, Lake Wingra, and the Wingra watershed. Keep an eye on our Library section, which we will add to in the coming months. We welcome your thoughts and suggestions, and please—enjoy the site!

Wingra Watershed News

The Wingra Watershed News, Vol 5, Number 1 (Spring 2008). » Download PDF

Working Toward a Healthy Lake Wingra

FOLW is working to develop a community-based vision for what Lake Wingra can be (based on the best available scientific understanding) and what it should be (based on the needs and desires of the public) by the year 2030. We hope to gain wide community endorsement of a set of practical goals for the health of the lake, then use those goals to establish a plan for getting there.
See: Lake Health Goals, June 2007

Fall Leaf Cleanup Campaign

Look for the catchy Love Your Lakes, Don't Leaf Them yard signs on the terraces of commuter streets in the Wingra Watershed again this year. Leaves and lakes don't mix. Here is more information on the campaign and ways to get rid of the leaves on your property.

Link to LTER Lake Wingra data

UW-Madison Center for Limnology has created a special link to their Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) data on Lake Wingra, just for us! Lake Wingra LTER Data