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You are personally invited to an important conference on the creation of the Turtle River Stewardship Program on Wednesday, January 29th at the Great Northern Motel banquet facility in Mercer, WI. The conference is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Iron County Lakes and Rivers Alliance.

For several years both the WDNR and ICLRA have been considering the concept of waters management on the scale of a watershed – lakes, rivers, streams, …

The Bureau of Parks and Recreation Management has appointed Beth Feind the new Property Manager at the Turtle Flambeau Scenic Waters Area. She will begin work at the flowage on Monday November 11th. Beth is currently a Ranger at the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, and before that she worked at the DNR Service Center in Woodruff. I have known Beth for several years and think she will do a fantastic job as the new …

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it will delay reassigning fisheries staff to Ashland by a year.

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At the last Iron County Highway Committee meeting a motion was made to allow ATVs on all Iron County roads.  Some county officials have expressed concern about safety considerations including the danger to bicyclists and motorcyclists with stone on the roads among other things.
 
The motion will be considered at this Tuesday’s (6/18) meeting at 4:00 PM at the forestry building in Hurley.  If you can’t attend, you may  call committee chair Jim Kichak at 715 562-0634 to …

The Annual Membership Meeting of the Turtle Flambeau Flowage & Trude Lake Property Owners’ Association Inc. will take place on Saturday June 22, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., at the Great Northern Hotel (5070 Highway 51) in Mercer, WI.  (Enter through hotel lobby and proceed to the Great Room for the meeting)

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 23, 2018, motion to …

We will be holding our annual membership meeting on June 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM at the Great Northern Motel, 5070 US-51, Mercer, WI. Hopefully many of our membership will be able to attend. Please enter through the motel, (not restaurant) entrance. Also, The Wolf’s Den at the Great Northern offers a varied lunch menu that will be available after our meeting. An agenda will be posted as soon as it is available.

The Property Owners’ …

The Northwoods Land Trust is a volunteer and member supported non-profit organization that conserves land through holding conservation easements, owning and managing donated land, acquiring land or easements, or any combination of these. The Trust functions in Vilas, Oneida, Forest, Florence, Iron, Price and northern Langlade counties.

Since the TFSWA docks are now taken out of the water entirely in the fall to prevent winter ice damage, we will have to wait until the road limits come off and the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest dock crew can get their equipment up here before the docks can go in this spring. That means it’s unlikely the docks will be put in before the fishing opener May 4th.

The DNR Spring hearings will be held in all 72 counties at 7:00 PM on Monday, April 8. Detailed information is available here – 2019 DNR Spring Hearings. The Iron County meeting will be held at the Iron County Memorial Building, 201 Iron St., Hurley, WI 54534.

A fisheries management question extremely important to the TFF is on the agenda. Question 17 asks: Do you favor applying a 12-inch minimum length limit, …