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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How Northwoods Lakes Fared in a Summer of COVID-19
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:51
	Publish Date:		2021-01-12 06:00:00
	Description:		Last summer, COVID-19 pushed more people outside and onto Northern Wisconsin’s lakes. For this month's Field Notes, Susan Knight tried to take the pulse of how residents felt about increased boat activity on our area lakes. I was incredibly lucky to be able to spend most of my 2020 summer workdays conducting aquatic plant surveys on area lakes. I was hardly the only one out there – by all accounts, the place to be last summer was on a Northwoods lake. As a member of the Vilas County Lakes and Rivers Association, I was asked to take the pulse of lake activity last summer, for good or bad. I asked eleven Northwoods residents with different backgrounds to answer a short questionnaire about their experiences on the lakes in summer 2020. This highly un scientific survey included a conservation warden, fishing guides, Clean Boats Clean Waters volunteers, a few lake-related business owners, and other lake enthusiasts. I was stunned by the passion and concern with which everyone answered my
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