Event Timeline

Annual Campaigns and Events

• Early Trout Season - First Saturday in January to the Friday before the first Saturday in May

  • • • • This is an important time to reach stream anglers. Many fishing organizations hold winter events where you may be able to do outreach. If you know the shops fly fishers and winter anglers use in your area, winter Bait Shop Initiative visits would be smart. We have a stream angler specific outreach card.

• Drain Campaign – First full weekend in June on WDNR's Free Fishing Weekend 

• Great Lakes Regional Landing Blitz – Week around the July 4th holiday

• Snapshot Day - Second Saturday of August

  • • • • Snapshot Day Site Leader Training - May

• Waterfowl Hunter AIS Outreach –  Fall, verify migratory bird season dates

  • • • • Usually begins the last weekend of September in the Mississippi and North hunting Regions and the first weekend of October in the South

        • Can conduct outreach earlier through attending waterfowl hunting-related events

• Exotic Pet Surrender Events - Year round, LMPN partners and volunteers often assist at the local events

Conferences

• Wetland Science Conference - February

• Wisconsin Lakes & Rivers Convention – March or April

• Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference (UMISC) – Fall, even numbered year; location varies

Meetings

• Spring AIS Partnership Meeting - Usually in April

• Fall AIS Partnership Meeting - Usually in October

• Monthly Lake & Rivers Partnership Calls - first Tuesday of the month, topics vary monthly