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three undergrads are sitting in a boat, wearing life jackets, looking at the camera. They are near picnic point on Lake Mendota with lake plant sampling equipment in the boat.
Photo of Trout Lake Station summer undergraduates posing in front of bog. They are wearing rain gear and all in a group looking at the camera.

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Trout Lake Station Overview

At Trout Lake Station, we steward water preservation by supporting responsible research and training that has local impact and global relevance.

Trout Lake Station (TLS) is a year-round field station operated by the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin Madison that has been supporting environmental and limnological research, training, and outreach in the Northwoods of Wisconsin since 1925. The station is located on the south shore of Trout Lake in Vilas County. The main laboratory offers visiting researchers access to labs and office space for their research needs. The station has meeting facilities including a library, a large 60-person conference room and a small meeting room. TLS also has housing for up to 47 people on site.

Click here to learn more about station use and to complete the appropriate reservation form:  Feel free to contact Gretchen Gerrish (ggerrish@wisc.edu) if you have questions.

 

For more information on the region and our long-term research programs visit:

Read Trout Lake Station Newsletters starting in 2021 and all Center for Limnology newsletters from 1987.

The Land

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Trout Lake Station occupies ancestral Ojibwe land, located within the Ceded Territories of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribes and in close proximity to the sovereign nation of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

After decades of endured violence and displacement from their homelands, the Ojibwe people were forced to provide access to the Ceded Territories in the treaties of 1837 and 1842.

At Trout Lake Station, this history and the recognition of ongoing colonial practices will inform training, partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge toward the stewardship of water for future generations.

— Requested by partners on our Wild Rice project, composed in reference to the UW Madison language, edited and discussed by UW Center for Limnology Principal Investigators and Trout Lake Station staff, and presented to the Lac du Flambeau council on Sep-12-2022. It was received with appreciation and some discussion of how the partnerships are looking and some specific project discussion.

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Drawing of Trout Lake Station showing road into station and cabins

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