Tracking Minnesota's loons' migration to the Gulf of Mexico and studying the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the birds have been revealing. Click here for more information from the Star Tribune.
Rick and Diane Zaske took their last boat ride for the sesason-Nov 15, it looks like this might be our last boat ride around the lake. We only saw 4 small docks beside ours on the lake and one other small boat. The loons all seem to be gone finally. We saw a couple small flocks of mallards. What a beautiful day! The forecast is for very cold this weekend here so I finally took my dock in today. Does this shoreline look familiar Mark, Barb, and Paul?
While Jackie Schumacher and her family were up over the weekend hunting, she was able to capture this picture of a young loon still on the lake.
'Aquatic Invasive Species' was the main topic for Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Jeff Forester key note speaker at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Summit.
"The relationship between a public who was looking to protect lakes in their entirety, and all the ecological services connected to those lakes, the tax base, as a source of drinking water, the way of life that lakes support, has grown increasingly strained. With each lake that becomes infested with zebra mussels, public impatience has increased. This same tension is evident in other areas of natural resource management."
The rest of the article can be viewed here.
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