Be informed about Water Quality

Due to Covid-19 rules events in general  can change quickly. Please check for cancelations before traveling to events and meetings. 

Clear Lake Township Meeting's

The new meeting location is now at the Clear Lake City Hall (sold the old town hall last year and currently building a new town hall). Also, due to the COVID-19, they are holding our monthly board meeting via teleconferencing until further notice.

Covid-19 is exponential in it's growth pattern. A pattern in nature where growth starts out small (linear) and reached a "knee" where the growth is explosive until the food source is used up.

Minnesota is close to that "knee" and we have a chance of slowing the problem before it "explodes" where the US in general is an example of trying to control after the "knee" is past.

A good example is Eurasian watermilfoil (EWM) found in Rush Lake in 2013-14 which was expected to have exponential growth and become unable to navigate within 8 years. We are 7 years into that infection and through intense management have less EWM than 2014. (0 plants in 2020! )

Working together we can manage invasive's we have done it before by planning. If we go 5 years without EWM the DNR considers it eradicated. 

For 7 years volunteer & paid divers have hand pulled surveyed plants. Extra effort done checking the entrance to Briggs to prevent spreading to other lakes. Chemical treatment done where hand pulling was not practical. - Contact tracing and isolation of the infection becomes easier as time goes on provided you don't let up til it is gone.

 Not letting up makes it over with sooner....