Winter Ice Is 10.5"  The Skating Trail is Open

Please remember that the edges ice up later than offshore due to the heat generated from plant decomposition!  The edges and first few feet of ice are always soft until we get a polar vortex and when you know winter is really here!
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Final Dissolved Oxygen Level 2020

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Lake Vegetation Mgmt Plan 

 We worked closely with Lake Restoration and the DNR to get our General Permit renewed for 5 years!  APM's are in process as well.  We can start May 13th this year so we can try to get ahead of the early growing season.  This is a first for our program as well.

 

January 12, 2021
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The Aspirator was turned off to let the lake freeze up. We will be running an  experiments in the next few months.  If you are out walking you will see a fencing go up in the middle of the lake above where one of the the bubblers had run this summer.  We will notify you when we have a date to turn on one bubbler.  Thanks. 
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Photo Credit: C. Bell

 
HERE IS AN AUGUST MOVIE .

Here is a movie file taken by Shavers1 on August 27th.  We've had a serious new outbreak of charra and other weeds. The lily pad treatment as permitted by the DNR is now scheduled for Tuesday August 25th. 


CLICK TO VIEW AUG 27 VIDEO

HOW MANY INVASIVES CAN YOU SPOT IN THIS VIDEO FILE - SHORT

CLICK TO VIEW AUG 24 VIDEO FILE


Here is a new movie file to see the weeds - video taken July 12th, 2020...   CLICK TO VIEW
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http://barr-milton.org/files/9-21-11-webcast-slides.Lawn-Fertilizer.pdf  

University of Minnesota Turfgrass runoff study

• Phosphorus in water runoff, the soil, and grass plant tissue

increased linearly with increasing P fertilizer application rate

• 86% of phosphorus runoff occurred when soil was frozen

• 78% of water runoff occurred when soil was frozen

• 72% of runoff P was water soluble reactive phosphorus – the form most available to plants (algae)

• P runoff can be reduced without affecting turf quality by not

applying P fertilizer when soil test P levels are high

• However, these results should not be extrapolated to infer that no fertilizer of any type should be applied!

• Properly fertilized turf can reduce P runoff

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Meeting Calendar

Next Meeting
Date: February 7, 2021
Noon
Location: On the lake 
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If it snows, we will put up a tent.  We are practicing our social distancing. 

 

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Let's Talk Cattails

Muscrat Populations are up.  They help control the cattails. 

The image of Shavers Lake in the 1905 map below doesn't look at all like it is today.  That's how much we have changed the shape and state of the lake.  We need to be a great steward to protect this watershed from disappearing completely, which has almost happened twice in the past 30 years.   

Narrow-leaved Cattail

T. angustifolia is not native to Minnesota or the United States but is a native of Canada. Eloise Butler introduced the plant to the Garden on April 26, 1913 and again on May 18, 1913 with plants sourced from Kelsey's Nursery in North Carolina. Having been introduced to Minnesota long ago, it is found in many counties across the state. The plant is a predator for native vegetation, it predominates and is invasive. For more info contact Peter
 Picture1905 Map of Shavers Lake

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