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Di Schuett sent these photos she took yesterday at the north end of Lake of the Falls showing a little bit of open water, a migratory pair of Common Goldeneyes, and half a dozen swans a-swimming. And, according to the 2021 Hummingbird Spring Migration Map, our tiny feathered overlords are moving into Tennessee today on their way back to our feeders.
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The Rice Lake Association has received a three year, $127,000 Aquatic Invasive Species grant from the Wisconsin DNR to aid in removal of the invasive Curly Leaf Pondweed from their lake. That’s good news for them and for us, but there is still a lot of work to be done to prevent this nasty weed from spreading downriver to Pike Lake and Lake of the Falls. Click here to read the article that appeared in this week’s Iron County Miner and stay tuned for ways you can help when the time comes.
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Click here for the order form for this year’s annual native plant sale. It’s a good chance to purchase trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses that will improve your property and benefit county conservation programs at the same time. Last year we had great success with the wildflowers we ordered. Our hummingbirds were very pleased!
The order deadline is February 26. By the time the plants arrive, all this snow will be gone! Well, probably.
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LOFA members, please read this letter from Iron County Lakes and Rivers Alliance secretary Dick Thiede which updates us on the efforts being made by the Rice Lake Association to get their infestation of Curly Leaf Pondweed (an aquatic invasive species) under control. After hitting lots of roadblocks in the last couple of years, they have a grant application submitted to the DNR that could provide critical funding in their effort, but have hit another snag in that they need a public boat launch on their lake in order for the grant to be considered for approval. The Mercer town board is meeting tomorrow (February 4th) at 5:30 to consider committing to the construction of a boat launch on Rice Lake. It’s necessary that they vote in favor of this for the grant to even be considered. The last paragraph of Dick’s letter has the contact information needed for us to either attend the meeting via Zoom or send an email in support of the landing.
Several patches of CLP were discovered in the Turtle River and in Pike Lake, just downriver from Rice Lake, last year and were hand-pulled by volunteers. Try to image just how much Curly Leaf Pondweed will enjoy living in Lake of the Falls if it manages to get downriver to us. Once it gains a toehold, it will be with us forever. We can support the Rice Lake Association in their efforts to get it under control before this happens!
Please do what you can to support Rice Lake.
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This month’s webinar sponsored by the Citizen’s Lake Monitoring Network is titled Groundwater and Lakes. Something I would like to know more about! The December topic was A Trip to the Bog and it was fascinating. I’m going to be sure to find a local bog and go in June when the flowers are in bloom!
Anyone interested in learning about our groundwater can sign up here to attend the webinar (link expired) live this Wednesday, January 27 at 3:00 pm CST, or you can access all of the CLMN webinars on their YouTube page.
And coming March 8-12 is Wisconsin Water Week, a week of presentations, panel discussions, interactive conversations with experts, and more on the full range of water topics, and all taking place online. This is the reincarnation of the Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Convention which was held annually in Stevens Point, and which had to go virtual at the last minute in 2020 because of the pandemic. Because of that I was able to attend, and it was time well-spent. It should be even better this year!
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