Posted on June 17, 2017 by Lake of the Falls in Mercer, Wisconsin
The minutes from the latest Board of Directors meeting have been added to our About LOFA page for anyone who’s interested in reading them. It was a pretty good meeting! Also, there is now a link on the About our lake page to the Citizen Lake Monitoring reports (water testing for clarity and temperature) past and present for Lake of the Falls and First Black Lake, plus reports from other area lakes; scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see these.
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Posted on May 14, 2017 by Lake of the Falls in Mercer, Wisconsin
The 2017 Summer Newsletter was mailed out to all of our members last week. Here is a copy in case you missed it. Enjoy!
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Posted on April 27, 2017 by Lake of the Falls in Mercer, Wisconsin
Another sure sign of Spring! Here is the Conservation on Tap schedule for the coming year. Print one for yourself and one for a friend. It looks like an interesting line up. Hope to see you there!
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Posted on January 9, 2017 by Lake of the Falls in Mercer, Wisconsin
This is from the Iron County Land & Water Conservation Department’s Facebook page:
“The Native Plant Sale Brochure is ready! Hot off the press! Be sure to get what you need to create a beautiful native garden that will attract butterflies, birds and bees. NEW this year is our Pollinators Pack! You’ll save $2 on this offer and will receive 8 6-packs of grasses and wildflowers that will attract pollinators. Get your orders in while supplies last. To get your order form visit our website www.ironcountylcd.org/plant-sale and click the link for the brochure or call us at 715/561-2234 and we’ll drop one in the mail to you.”
You can click here for a direct link to the brochure. The deadline for orders is February 24. Michael & I have ordered plants through this sale in the past and have always been really happy with them.
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Posted on October 26, 2016 by Lake of the Falls in Mercer, Wisconsin
MORE FISH!
Earlier this month we received this email from Zach Lawson, Fisheries Biologist with the Wisconsin DNR:
We stocked 4,454 walleyes (in Lake of the Falls) the last week of September average size about 7-8”. We won’t be in LOF in the spring targeting walleyes for a couple of years, but we are seeing a few fish in that 12-17” range in some of our other survey work out there so that is encouraging. I am also getting some reports from folks that are catching fish in that size range too, which should be some of these stocked fish from the last few years. It is nice to see some progress and these fish just stocked should keep trickling up into the adult population! Hopefully they will start doing it on their own in a short while here – we’ll keep an eye on it.
MORE ELECTRICITY!
Last week a team from Xcel Energy installed new replacement electric cable under the north end of the lake to feed power to the Voyager area and the residences on West Lake Road. Crews worked for 5 days straight on the shore and in the water in an effort to improve the reliability of our electric service. Mike M. got these photos:
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