We want to meet with you! In each newsletter we will announce a date for a monthly virtual meeting that anyone can join with a link. We will have some general topics ready but really want to hear from you and allow you the time and space to network with other members....
Our goal for 2020 and beyond is to make sure your membership dollars are working harder for our mission. In an effort to reallocate funds for the important work we all believe in, we have closed our Stanton office. We can still be reached at (989) 831-5100 and...
By: Paul J. Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director EGLE (formerly DEQ) regulators want to revise how the environmental risk from spreading livestock waste on farms is evaluated as part of a new “draft” general permit for industrial scale agriculture businesses known as...
The Michigan Waterfront Alliance (“MWA”) was created by officials of the Michigan Lakes & Streams Association, Inc. (“MLSA”) over 20 years ago as an adjunct organization to MLSA. For a variety of legal and other reasons, MWA was established to pursue lobbying...
By: Paul J Sniadecki, MLSA Board DirectorRep. Jon Hoadley and Sen. Sean McCann have recently introduced legislation seeking to expand Michigan’s bottle deposit law to all beverages except milk containers and provide funding to address contaminated sites.HB 5306 and SB...
Are you looking for a way to network with other lakes around Michigan? Join us for discussion on Facebook, we now have a MLSA member group! Follow the link: Michigan Lakes and Streams Members, click + Join Group, answer the membership questions, and standby for...
MLSA and the Michigan Chapter North American Lake Management Society (McNALMS) are pleased to announce the 2020 Lake Research Student Grants Program. The purpose of the program is to promote student efforts to work on inland lakes and/or with lake communities to...
by Paul J Sniadecki, Board Director Results are in! Dr. Jo Latimore, MSU, announced that volunteers in Michigan’s Exotic Aquatic Plant Watch (EAPW) searched 38 Michigan lakes this summer. The “terrible trio” of Eurasian watermilfoil, curly-leaf pondweed, and...
by Melissa DeSimone, MLSA Executive Director Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) coordinators from all corners of both peninsulas gathered together this week in Gaylord, Michigan. While the snow fell outside, coordinators, steering committee members,...
by Paul J. Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director If you are a human being, ”seeing spots” before your eyes is many times a sign that you might need prompt medical attention. If you want to protect Michigan waters from further Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) contamination and...
Attendees at the 15th Annual MiCORPS Conference report that NO end of the CLMP/VSMP program was announced on November 19, 2019. If the future of the valuable program, was “hopeless” then the conference would have most likely explained how any...
Nick Assendelft, EGLE Public Information Officer, AssendelftN@Michigan.gov, 517-388-3135 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FOR GREAT LAKES PROPERTIES ONLY, INLAND LAKES ARE NOT COVERED BY THIS EXPEDITED PROCESS ) (MLSA Editor’s Note) The Michigan Department of Environment,...
Congratulations to Paige Kleindl on the defense of her thesis project titled, “Shoreline Restoration and Source of Nutrient Enrichment Impacts on Macrophyte and Epiphytic Algal Communities.” Paige was MLSA’s student recipient of the 2018 Megan E. Cook...
by Paul J Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director The October MLSA eNewsletter carried Part 1 of the news about Quinn Hughes and Tyler Clair, both seventh-graders at Minnetonka, MN – Middle School West, and their science project titled “Microplastics in Our Water; a...
By Melissa DeSimone, MLSA Executive Director In what made for a wonderful experience, MLSA President, Mike Gallagher, and I were able to attend the graduation for this program and meet the 19 individuals who participated in this year’s LSLI. These are people dedicated...
By Paul J Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director The summer of 2019 saw a large bridge installed on Lobdell Lake in Argentine Township near Fenton, MI. The bridge owner connected a private lakefront property off of Whitehead Drive to the property owner’s island in the lake...
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Excerpt from a MI Environment Article, see link below Check out the new Michigan Shoreland Stewards Video Series that focuses on helping inland lake property owners understand what they can do on their property to protect their inland lake. The videos are designed to...
Registration is now open for McNALMS’ annual Lunch and Learn program on Harmful Algal Blooms: Ecology, Impacts, and Management Options. This year’s session will feature two experts, Dr. Ann St. Amand of PhycoTech and Dr. West Bishop of SePRO Corp,...
By: Paul J Sniadecki, MLSA Board Director MiCORPS CONFERENCE BEGINNING SOON The 15thAnnual MiCorps volunteer monitoring conference will take place Oct. 23 at the Kettunen Center. Conference sessions will focus on citizen science for coldwater resource protection, use...
