Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General
Chapter NR 193 - Surface Water Grant Program
Subchapter V - Aquatic Invasive Species Control
Section NR 193.65 - General conditions

(1) INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT. Projects funded with a grant awarded under this subchapter shall employ an integrated pest management strategy. Integrated pest management is an ecosystem-based management strategy that focuses on long-term suppression of pests or their damage and considers all of the available pest control practices. Integrated pest management projects shall be informed by current, comprehensive information on pest life cycles and the interactions among pests and the environment. A project that employs an integrated pest management strategy shall include more than one management practice.

(2) MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. Practices eligible for inclusion in an integrated pest management strategy include prevention, biological control, biomanipulation, nutrient management, habitat manipulation, substantial modification of cultural practices, pesticide application, water level manipulation, mechanical removal, population monitoring, and other available pest control methods approved for grant-funded projects. Pesticide application may be approved only when other available pest control methods are considered and when pesticide applications are conducted with the goal of removing only the target species.

(3) MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. The department may require monitoring activities or an assessment of management outcomes as a condition of the grant award.

(4) PUBLIC BOATING ACCESS. Management of a prohibited species or a pioneer population under this subchapter is considered a resource protection service and does not require public boating access under s. NR 1.91(4). Large-scale and small-scale population management projects require minimum public boating access as set out in s. NR 1.91(4).