Partners with Education

Partners with Education is an active learning partnership between the Green Lake Sanitary District, the Green Lake Association and schools and colleges surrounding Big Green Lake.

Its mission is to work cooperatively on lake-related improvement projects. These include monitoring the health of water in the lake and its tributaries, protecting environmentally sensitive areas in and around the lake, maintaining the lake fisheries, working to protect valuable native vegetation and to control unwanted exotic vegetation, and much more.

Students, lake organizations, government, and citizens will all benefit from Partners with Education activities:

1. Students get learning opportunities while helping to protect the lake.

2. Students gain an appreciation of the valuable resources within their community, which in turn helps to shape them as lifelong environmental stewards.

3. Cooperation among lake organizations, citizens, and government for gathering information will help with the ongoing tasks required to maintain and protect the lake and surrounding watershed.

4. Youth and adult Involvement with lake protection issues will ensure sound lake management decisions.

5. The community can actively participate in protecting Green Lake with hands-on activities provided through this program.
   

Partners with Education

As of the Fall 1998, the GLSD and Green Lake Association continue to be actively involved with each of the four school districts (Green Lake, Ripon, Markesan, Princeton) surrounding Big Green Lake.  Currently, students and their teachers are actively involved with or have expressed an interest to perform work or study the following areas: Norwegian Bay bulrushes, biotic indexing of Big Green Lake tributaries, lake fisheries, shoreland preservation and restoration, plant and animal habitat studies, and lake water quality.

The information and data obtained by students is used by the GLSD and other lake organizations to make better informed lake and watershed related decisions, as well as to become part of the historical databases.