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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 ~ 4:30pm
Online via Zoom

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Join with your new Executive Director, board, and fellow members across the state for your 2025 Annual Membership Meeting on December 9 from 4:30-6:00pm!

Learn about what we’ve accomplished in the past year as well as hear about the exciting plans for 2026.

ALL ARE WELCOME, including non-members! 

Attendance is FREE but you must register to attend via Zoom.

Join us for the Wisconsin Lakes Annual Membership Meeting, …

Wisconsin Lakes and the Last Wilderness Alliance are calling for urgent state action to halt the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) via the ballast systems found in wake boats.

AIS management already costs MILLIONS of dollars annually in Wisconsin. Evidence shows that wake boats contribute to this problem by transferring invasive species between lakes.

The Problem with Ballast Systems

Studies confirm that ballast systems, which are filled with lake water to weigh down wake boats to create …

Over the last few years, wake-enhanced boating activity has been a hot topic for many landowners, lake groups, recreationists, and town boards.  In the last year, it’s been an increasingly big concern for many Iron County residents.  This is a complicated issue with lots of questions to be answered.  In an effort to provide a time and space for folks to come get educated and allow for questions and answers, I have organized a wake-enhanced recreation forum. …

Turtle Flambeau Flowage & Trude Lake Property Owners’ Association, Inc.

Annual Membership meeting
Saturday June 21, 2025, at the Mercer Community Center, 2648 W. Margaret Street, Mercer, WI
10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Call to Order:
Attendance:
Members and Board members introduced themselves.
Minutes of June 22, 2024, meeting
Treasurer’s Report

Elections (vote on):

Secretary – Todd Jirous
Treasurer – Roger Nelson
Director – Jeff Wilson
Director – Troy Tipton
Director – Open

Presentation

Mary Jung and John Richter – Wake boats and their impact …

ACTION ALERT: DNR to Hold Aquatic Plant Management Rules Revision Roadshows

Agency provides four opportunities for public comment on changes to NR 107 and NR 109, the administrative rules covering aquatic plant management.

The Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources is pursuing revisions and changes to the administrative rules governing aquatic plant management in the state. This is similar to an effort to update the rules a few years ago. That effort ended when, in the midst of attempts …

Northwoods Six-County Lakes and Rivers Meeting to highlight benefits and risks of herbicides for AIS control

RHINELANDER, WI — Eurasian watermilfoil and other nuisance vegetation is spreading in northern lakes. Are herbicide treatments an answer? Or are they too risky?

A panel of experts will explore that topic at the annual Northwoods Six-County Lakes and Rivers Meeting on Friday, July 11, Nicolet College in Rhinelander.

“Herbicides are commonly used to control invasive species as well as native species …

Eurasian watermilfoil (EWM; Myriophyllum spicatum) was detected in the Turtle Flambeau Flowage in the summer of 2023. During 2024, staff from the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation (Burke Center) at Northland College and the North Lakeland Discovery Center conducted point intercept aquatic plant surveys to document the extent of EWM presence within portions of the flowage and to provide updated data on the flowage’s overall aquatic plant community. Additionally, the Burke Center monitored …

The Wisconsin Conservation Congress offers citizens the ability weigh in on natural resource matters each year through its Spring Hearings. Citizen offered questions are put up to a vote by participants in the hearings, and those that pass eventually are provided to the Natural Resources Board, Dept. of Natural Resources, and the Legislature as suggested paths forward on an issue. WCC resolutions are advisory only.

While the in-person meetings took place this past Monday, citizens can …

“Protecting Our Waters: We’re All Connected” is the theme for the annual Northwoods Six-County Lakes Meeting, set for Friday, July 12, at Nicolet College.

Lake association leaders and members along with the general public will convene to learn about and discuss our interconnected water resources and our human connections to each other and to our lakes, streams, wetlands and groundwater.

A committee with representatives from Oneida, Vilas, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, and Iron counties is at work developing …