News & Reports
We will be holding our annual membership meeting on June 23,10:00 AM – noon in the Great Room at the Great Northern Hotel, 5070 US-51, Mercer, WI. Hopefully we will see many of you there, please enter through the hotel (not restaurant) entrance. The Wolf’s Den at the Great Northern offers a wide lunch menu that will be available after our meeting. A tentative agenda for the meeting is as follows:
- Elections for president, vice-president, and 3 directors. Randy Schubert has agreed to run for President, and Jeff Malison for vice-president. 3 current directors have agreed to run for re-election – Diane O’krongly, Jean Burns, and Jim Kohl.
- Presidents update on recent activities include:
- Turtle Flambeau Flowage Stakeholders meeting
- Search for volunteers:
1. chair of membership committee;
2. set up and run an association Facebook page;
3. establish a cloud-based system for the storage of association records - Update on the web site and blast e-mails
- Proposed ATV trail through the TFSWA
- Water level committee update – Jim Moore
- Fish management update – Jim Kohl
- Water quality committee update – Mike/Beth Myers
- Invasive species update – Randy Payne
- Announcement by Mike Hittle on his book on the history of the TFF. Books will be for sale and Mike will be available to sign books
- Presentation by Randy Payne on the UW-Extension Lakes Annual conference
- Presentation by Zach Lawson on proposed change in walleye regulations for the TFF
Several weeks ago, our members Hank and Jan Carstens spotted 4 adult elk in the Popkos Circle area of the TFSWA. Sorry, no pictures are available, but Hank has been an avid hunter of deer, moose and elk, so I’m sure that we can trust their report.
UW-Extension Lakes announces June aquatic plant identification workshops.
Learn More: https://www.uwsp.edu/
An information based survey on swimmers itch across all of North America is being conducted in 2018.