Rain Gardens:

Visit these rain gardens in the Lake Wingra Watershed:

Edgewood Campus

614 Piper Drive (Midvale Heights neighborhood)

1922 Vilas Ave (Vilas neighborhood)

Online information about rain gardens:

1. from Edgewood College Wingra Watershed Project (Madison)
2. from Dane County Lakes and Watersheds Commission
3. from Friends of Basset Creek (Minneapolis)

 

Membership organizations with an active interest in the stewardship of Lake Wingra's watershed:

Friends of the Arboretum

Friends of Southwest Bicycle/Pedestrian Path

Madison Fishing Expo

Muskies, Inc. - Capital City Chapter

Yahara Fishing Club

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City of Madison

 

The City of Madison Government Website

Madison is a city with great civic resources. This site has info on your city contacts, Alderpersons, and city projects.

 

Beach Safety

The City of Madison Public Health Department site includes information about Beach water quality testing.

City Streets: Leaf collection, recycling, road salt and street repairs.

Lake Wingra Shoreline: Nature, Recreation

Edgewood College

Edgewood College, situated on the North Side of Lake Wingra, is central to the FOLW partnership.  The Edgewood community is heavily involved in restoration and education efforts on the lake. 

 

The UW Arboretum

The arboretum is a great place to recreate and learn about ecosystems. Their web site includes tours and events.

 

Henry Vilas Zoo

 

Wingra Canoe & Sailing Center

This personal site includes information about the Center on the shores of Lake Wingra, including their phone number.

Wingra Park and Henry Vilas Park

 

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Publications and studies about the Wingra watershed.

The UW Water Resources Management Practicum on Lake Wingra.  Graduate research on Lake Wingra, as commissioned by the Friends of Lake Wingra.

WDNR's storm water management research and modeling (forthcoming).

Other Watershed groups in Dane County, Wisconsin

Black Earth Creek Watershed Association. 608-795-2336.

Friends of Pheasant Branch The Pheasant Branch Watershed drains to Lake Mendota from the northwest side of Madison's largest lake.

Friends of Starkweather Creek. Contact Scott Taylor.

Token Creek Watershed Association

Upper Sugar River Watershed Association works with residents in our neighboring watershed to the south.

Wisconsin and beyond

River Alliance of Wisconsin

Wisconsin Association of Lakes

Find a map of major watersheds within the county and get information on priority watershed projects like the Yahara-Monona project, which includes the Wingra watershed.

DNR Bureau of Watershed Management Site.

This site from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources includes lots of good information on stormwater.

 

UW Extension Water Resources Center. 

These folks have a lot of great information on how to go about changing your yard and home to be better for the lake, as well as other water-related documents.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Limnology monitors Lake Wingra and the Madison Lakes as part of its Long-Term Ecological Research program (LTER). This LTER data can be viewed with your internet browser.

EPA's Surf Your Watershed website.

Find out more about the upper Rock River Basin, which includes the Lake Wingra watershed. Water from Lake Wingra flows into Wingra Creek, then into Lake Monona, then into the Yahara River, which flows into the Rock River.

The Center for Watershed Protection

These folks are a national non-profit concentrating on protecting urban watersheds.

http://www.americanrivers.org/

 

NatureResources.com

 Listings by state of many organizations related to natural resource conservation in the United States.