A Minnesota Star Lake - Associations Praised for Best Practices

There's hardly any spot in the world that's as thinly populated as Alaska. Significant elements from the country are nevertheless dominated by the animal globe. This is also accurate for the massive Katmai National Park in the south of Alaska, where the landscape is marked by glaciers and volcanoes, a a part of that are still energetic. In the bottom in the tops of the Aleutan Variety that are up to 2,000 metres large lies the flat and stormy Shelikof Strait. The hardly available coastal...Read Full Story

Is it a vast conspiracy of vendors dictating to a few well meaning, yet chronically underfunded conservation agencies, and can this omission of information be the final straw we need to demonstrate our collective frustration in a molten pool of self-immolated 6X tippet? For years we’ve been serenaded by all them pale, veggie-loving scientists about our thoughtless spread of Quagga and Zebra mussels. They’re busy bashing our boats in one sentence and damning our caustic footprints in the next...Read Full Story

Zebra mussels from the Caspian Sea, introduced to North America by accident, are becoming a veritable plague releasing toxic chemicals into the Great Lakes, Canadian biologists say.The mussels hitch-hiked to Canada on the ballasts of cargo ships arriving on the continent in 1986. And in the past two decades the thumbnail-sized creatures have spread and are found in more than a third of the Great Lakes.Not content with devouring plankton and indigenous species, the mussels are sucking on toxic...Read Full Story

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday.The five lakes, which contain one-fifth of the world's fresh water and supply tens of millions of people, may be "veering close to ecosystem collapse," the report by the National Wildlife Federation said."Too much food is causing massive algal blooms in Lake Erie and other coastal...Read Full Story

How Does A Lake Association Qualify To Become a "Minnesota Star Lake" The Weeders Digest, a Minnesota based "Lake Association Help Desk" has created a checklist of "Tips To Become a Minnesota Star Lake" and has offered this report:There are numerous lake associations all over the state whose members devote a lot of their time in the volunteer work in order to keep the lakes healthy on a regular basis. However, all those people who participate in looking after the lakes are all volunteers and...Read Full Story