The Town of Phelps is sponsoring a LPL grant to study Smoky Lake, in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP). Project activities include: 1) Citizen participation - stakeholder survey and planning meetings (2-4); 2) Water quality sampling and analysis; 3) Updated bathymetry map; 4) Watershed assessment; 5) Shoreland and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment; 6) Collect and synthesize existing lake data; 7) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, community mapping and substrate mapping); 8) Data analysis; 9) Develop LMP.