The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was recognized with a Sport Fish Restoration Project Award, presented by the American Fisheries Society, for its fisheries research project in Vilas County.
The award recognizes scientific excellence and effective use of federal funding under the Sport Fish Restoration Act.
The project, “Fish Production and Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Long-term Additions of Lake Coarse Woody Habitat,” involves controlled experiments that add fallen trees. These fallen trees are known as “fish sticks,” and were studied in 92-acre Sanford Lake.
The study dove into the importance of these sticks and shoreline forests to prey fish in lakes, healthier ecosystems and stronger fish populations.
