Three Lakes Association

TLA January ’12 Newsletter

Please click HERE to view TLA’s January 2012 Newsletter.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

1. Announcement of a new Executive Director, Leslie Meyers
2. TLA’s grants to local science teachers
3. Possible solution to the TCE plume problem
4. Lake Trout subspecies discovered in Elk Lake
5. Grass River Sedimentation Project
6. Fish Shelters  Project
7. Launching another Science Education grant program

Presentations from Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed Meeting

Click in the left image to download the presentation regarding fish fish shelters.

Click on the right image to download the presentation regarding the Grass River restoration assessment.

Thanks to Jim Argo

THANK YOU pilot Jim Argo for flying TLA interns and mentors around Grass River and its three tributaries (Shanty, Cold, and Finch Creeks) on Friday, August 12th to take aerial photos of specific areas that represent possible opportunities for reducing the rate of sediment accumulation in Grass River.  Photo: left to right; Becky Norris (TLA mentor), David Witt (Central Lake High School), Jim Kelderhouse (NMC student & Grass River Natural Area Intern), Carrick Conway & Erik Youmans (Central Lake HS), and pilot Jim Argo.

Review the highlights of TLA’s first 45 years

Click HERE to view a recent presentation covering the highlights of Three Lakes Associations first 45 years.

TLA’s JULY Newsletter

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A hard copy of TLA’s JULY Newsletter is being mail to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• Grass River Sedimentation Study: progress report
• Removal of Eurasian watermilfoil from Torch Lake
• 2011 Summer Interns, Grass River Sedimentation Project
• Brianne Lunn: From TLA Intern in 2003 to Graduate Student, Fisheries Biology
• Fracking Education Event, Successful Golf Outing, new Star Buoy signs

45th Annual Meeting – July 21st

TLA’s 45th Annual Meeting

Thursday, July 21st, 5 to 9 PM
Presentation by Rodney Stokes, Director Michigan DNR
Please mail your registration to Becky Norris by June 15th
$23 per dinner

Click HERE to download the registration flyer.

TLA April 2011 Newsletter

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A hard copy of TLA’s April 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• New Grass River Sediment Project

• Butch’s Marina Cleanup

• 2010 Water Quality Monitoring Results

• Bay Harbor CKD Leachate Problem Update

• DNR Director to speak at Annual Meeting

Natural Shoreline Workshop for property owners on inland lakes, April 15th, Boyne Mtn Resort

As part of Three Lakes Association’s efforts to protect natural shorelines, please consider registering and participating in a workshop for property owners on inland lakes, April 15th, 1:00 to 4:30 PM, at Boyne Mountain Resort.  Click HERE to down load the flyer to learn about the workshop and the process for registering.

In anticipation that this Workshop will contain some practical information for owners of property on lakes who may be interested in improving their shoreline, Three Lakes Association (TLA) is offering to reimburse the registration fee of $35 for the first two TLA members who attend the workshop and who would be willing to summarize key highlights from the Workshop at TLA’s Board meeting on May 10th.   Please send a copy of your registration form to TLA Office, P.O. Box 689, Bellaire, MI 49615

TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter

Click HERE to view TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter.

A hard copy of TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• DNRE’s clean up of gasoline from old leaks at Butch’s Marina

• TLA support of efforts to upgrade rules governing Fracking

• Preliminary findings from TLA Membership Opinion Survey

• TLA’s awards 2011 grants to local schools for environmental education

• Confirming TLA’s concern about proposed Forest Home Twp Park

Fracking: Three Lakes Association joins 33 organizations to urge regulatory upgrades in rules

Current rules in the State of Michigan to protect water quality when using new hydrologic fractionation technologies to help extract natural gas from deep oil-shale formations contain risky exemptions and lack public transparency.  On November 17, 2010 Three Lakes Association joined 33 organizations in recommending changes in Michigan’s rules to upgrade the assessments of huge volumes of ground water needed to frack a well, to disclose the identity of the chemicals used, and to disposal of spent fracking solutions. Click HERE to review the sign-on letter.