Our fall 2023 meeting is in the books. We met primarily over Zoom on Sat Oct 28th for a little less than 90 minutes, though two of my neighbors joined me at our lake home (thanks for the bars, they were delicious!).
Primary discussion was about changes in local AIS, notably how Starry Stonewort was found this summer in one of the lakes in SW Hubbard County. We went through the AIS response that their lake association, the DNR, and some private treatment companies enacted once detected. Their overall response was fairly fast and can help serve as a blueprint if we ever have a similar finding in our lakes (hope we will not!). We also discussed some local road development proposals. And spent some time talking about the outlet of 11th Crow Wing (that feeds 10th) being plugged up with branches, sticks, and leaves. Later that afternoon, this was cleared and quite a bit more water started flowing downstream to 10th. And we talked about a few of our normal topics as well.
John Paasonen took a Zoom recording of the meeting and sent me the link (THANKS John!). We started the meeting with introductions at the 11 minute mark. And were done with introductions at the 14 minute mark. If you click the link below, you will then just have to enter the following password, 9j$GAZi%