Happy Thanksgiving from MLSA

Wishing you a wonderful holiday. Cheers to all our hard work for Michigan's lakes and streams in 2024 and to more to come! If you missed the email, read our message and subscribe to get all the important news about our lakes and streams each month. It's free and we...

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Look out for the Lame Duck

By Paul J Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director In a previous article (see “Listening To Legislators”) in the June MLSA Newsletter, we speculated that the “Lansing Landscape” would slow in terms of legislative action. Though many important water protection and environmental...

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MLSA Membership makes a great gift!

Membership includes a subscription to our magazine, The Michigan Riparian. Individual members may also be eligible for reimbursement of early registration fees from successfully completing the Introduction to Lakes online course through MSU. Each year, MLSA provides...

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Planning your 2024 giving

by Melissa DeSimone, MLSA Executive Director I want to take a moment to make the case for the Michigan Lakes and Streams Association in your annual giving plans. There are many worthy humanitarian causes to give to each year and sometimes it is easy to overlook giving...

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Upcoming Events


PFAs Summit

December 3-5, 2024 – Event Website

The Stewardship Network Conference

January 23-24, 2025 – Event Website

64th Annual MLSA Conference: The Future of Michigan’s Water

April 25-26, 2025 – Please plan to join us in Muskegon!

Annual Conference Webpage (check here for continuing updates)

Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium

May 12-16, 2025 – Event Website

Check out our Event Resources Page for our previous events and materials.

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