July 28th Crayfish Workshop
On Thursday, July 28th at 5:30 pm a crayfish workshop was held at the Gordon/Wascott EMT Base Station at 14511 South Highway 53 in Gordon. It is located on the west side of Highway 53 across the highway from the Tradin Post. The exit road is marked as Snowberry Lane.
The training session takes about 3 hours.
Participants will learn methods for collecting and preserving crayfish for a UW-DNR research study to determine the distribution of the various types of crayfish in the headwaters area, including the invasive Rusty crayfish.
Kris Stepenuck, UW-Extension, will bring several sets of monitoring equipment that will be shared by those participating in the study.
Along with collecting crayfish, participants will collect dissolved oxygen (like with the WAV program), temperature, conductivity (with a simple pen-like instrument), pH (with test strips), and GPS coordinates for the monitoring site.