News & Reports

The Annual Membership Meeting of the Turtle Flambeau Flowage & Trude Lake Property Owners’ Association Inc. will take place on Saturday June 26, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., at the Pines Restaurant, 5234N Hwy 51, Mercer, WI, 54547
Meeting will be held in the Beer Garden

AGENDA

Preliminaries

Call to order, introduction of Board members, agenda
Self-introduction of members, Determination of Quorum
Minutes of the Annual Membership Meeting of June 22, 2019, motion to approve
Treasurer’s Report, motion to approve

Elections
Shown below are positions/offices …

The Rice Lake Association of Mercer, WI, has received a grant to remove curly leaf pondweed from the lake in order to prevent/minimize downstream contamination in the Turtle River Watershed. If this invasive weed is not controlled it will ultimately infest the Turtle Flambeau Flowage.  This year’s project is tentatively set to start around May 24th.  It focuses on hand pulling of the plant.  There are 20 paid positions at $15/hour for 80 hours available. 

The Iron County Department of Forestry and Parks has posted a link to a Public Opinion Survey for developing their next 5-year plan for Outdoor Recreation, 2021-2025. You can go here to see the link – https://www.ironcountyforest.org,

or go directly to the survey here – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8Z6QJYR

A total of 157 lakes throughout 27 northern Wisconsin counties were surveyed. I would like to thank you all for your efforts to help with LoonWatch’s 2020 Wisconsin Loon Population Survey.

A slide show entitled “Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area Guided Auto Tour Part 1”, developed by board member Diane O’krongly for FE University.

Our most recent newsletter has been mailed out to members, and is now posted here.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced Dec. 15 that adding the monarch butterfly to the federal list of threatened and endangered species is warranted but precluded by work on higher-priority listing actions.

From Beth Feind, Property Manager, Turtle Flambeau Scenic Waters Area, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Parks and Recreation

Docks- We plan to remove docks October 16-18th. If we cannot remove all of them on our own that weekend we will be using the assistance of the NHAL crew, removing the rest by the end of the month.

Murray’s Landing- Rock has been added, per my request, by the Town of Sherman, to help prevent more washouts to the parking lot and …

The WDNR will soon begin to update the Wisconsin Walleye Management Plan. The public can provide online input into the plan, and residents of Iron County can apply to participate in an upcoming Zoom meeting on October 13.

Road limits have been lifted and all State docks on the Flowage are in as of Monday, May 10th. A big thanks to the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest Crew for their help with equipment and manpower that was needed to get the rest of these in!