Register Here:  Winter is still here, but the 2023 season on the water will be here before you know it. Like most of you, MN COLA continues working during these shorter days to help protect our Minnesota waters. Join us at our March Membership meeting to find out what's happening in St. Paul related to... Read more »

Register Here: The Round Robin event is an "open mic, ask any question" event. This is your chance to get your topic on the table and find out what other lake and river professionals and supporters think. Just stay online following the Membership Meeting.

Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a fundamental component of lake ecosystems and low levels of DO make habitat unsuitable for most aerobic organisms like fish.

The CRWD's 4th Annual AIS Forum will focus on enhanced carp management as efforts are ramped up to defend against invasive carp.

Managers facing transforming lakes can benefit by using the RAD framework, a decision-support tool for the walleye recreational fishery in Wisconsin.

Lakes are losing ice cover at unprecedented rates. With reduced ice cover, lakes may stratify earlier which can lead to elevated water temperatures, primary production, and likelihood of algal blooms, some of which may be toxic. Mitigation of greenhouse gases is essential to preserving this ecological, cultural, and economically important resource.

Multiple activities within watershed boundaries impact the quality of freshwater systems and this presentation examines stakeholders' perspectives of governance in the Iowa Great Lakes region. Conservationists' perspectives on the region's environmental pressures, barriers they encounter, and solutions within this system are discussed.

The second volume of the MGLP’s Living document highlights families who live on natural shorelines and have taken a variety of steps to benefit themselves and their lakes. This is an opportunity to hear directly from some of the featured property owners as they share their experiences in conservation.

The overall goal of the  Healthy Watersheds, High-Quality Waters initiative is to keep 100% of the priority healthy watersheds and high-quality waters within them at or better than their current conditions through 2030.

Want to delve a little deeper into the zebra and quagga mussel invasion? Try this webinar put on by the Invasive Mussel Collaborative. It includes two presentations: Mussel squeeze: dissolved oxygen and temperature can “squeeze” zebra mussels out of invaded reservoirs by Rich Miller and Crysta Gantz with Portland State University, Portland, OR Dreissena (zebra and... Read more »