This months musing: how many floating cattail bogs have you seen?  

Are we at a record lake level? No, but close. 

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.

 

May 2019

This years Weed Control Program to be started earlier this  year.  We've submitted our APM permits to Lake Restoration for processing.  

​With the high water we should have we're hoping to get a jump on lake management activities earlier in the season.  
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Don't fertilize your grass too early in the spring! We don't want excess "P" in the lake. 

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

2019 Membership Form  

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Fill out a form on the contact page so we can introduce ourselves.

Meeting Calendar

Next Board of Directors
Date: TBD
​7:00pm
Location: TBD
 

​Click here for information.

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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