Wisconsin Plans Workshops for Officials

From August 8, 1990 (update #3)

Three workshops on the zebra mussel threat to Wisconsin will be held in late August in Milwaukee, Manitowoc and Ashland for local officials in the southern Lake Michigan, northern Lake Michigan and Lake Superior areas, respectively. The workshops are part of a joint effort by Wisconsin Sea Grant and the state's Departments of Natural Resources and Administration to familiarize local officials with the zebra mussel invasion and its potential effects on water intakes, shoreline use, and public and private lakeshore facilities. The dates and locations are:

Milwaukee - Aug. 28, 9 a.m., Garden Room, UW Alumni House, 3230 E. Kenwood Blvd.

Manitowoc - Aug. 28, 1 p.m., Inn on Maritime Bay, 101 Maritime Drive.

Ashland - Aug. 29, 10 a.m., Sigurd Olson Institute, Northland College campus.

For more information, contact Gary Gyland, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, phone (608) 267-7982.

ID: 19900808-8.

The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.