June 2015

NALMS Notes

A Publication of the North American Lake Management Society

What are we Appreciating in July?

June 2015

Steve Lundt, CLM | [email protected]

In this issue ... 1 What are we Appreciating in July? 2 President’s Message 3 Membership in Motion

NALMS Office Notes

4 Conferences & Events 5 NALMS News

News from Our Affiliates

6 Join us this July for the 2015 Secchi Dip-In! 7 Consider a Donation to NALMS

10 Lake Photo of the Month Welcome New Members!



Thank You to Our Renewing Members!

First, we must ask what we are really appreciating. Is it thanks for our daily cup of java? Is it the reliable morning shower? Is it the awareness that your fishing trip depends on a healthy lake? Or is it an understanding that most of the food we eat relies on reservoir water? Yes, it is all of those things, but maybe the true thanks comes from keeping us feeling young by giving us childhood memories of those carefree summer days playing on a lake. We all want to be young again, and we like having reminders of those early lake memories. People need to give thanks to our lakes and reservoirs for those great, childhood experiences. We all know where water comes from and that it’s important to keep clean, but some of us forget how important a lake or reservoir was early in life. Those key youth experiences, fishing, camping, boating, skiing, canoeing, or just being around a lake, provided a permanent image in our brains that are associated with feelings of enjoyment, family, peace, excitement, community, vacationing, newness, and maybe even a deeper connection to the land. Photo: Washington State Library This is what we need to appreciate – lakerelated, childhood experiences that keep us feeling young.

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Coming up next month is Lakes Appreciation Month where folks are asked to give thanks to our hard working lakes and reservoirs. This designation has been around for many years (since 1994) competing with the likes of national ice cream month and tickling month, believe it or not. It is time to really make this national month-long celebration stand out.

Popular summer holidays like Fourth of July and Labor Day are well received. These summertime holidays give us great childhood memories that we hold on to and pass on to the next generation. With Lakes Appreciation Month, this level of excitement to celebrate, eat, and pass on memories needs to be as important. Focusing your lake events around childhood activities will create a better connection for people, young and old. ™

Next question - how do we celebrate Lakes Appreciation Month? Banks don’t need to close, but we do need to make this more mainstream. Food is a good start. How about a slight frosting alteration to those popular New York black and white cookies to make Continued on page 6 ...

NALMS Notes Editor: Steve Lundt NALMS PO Box 5443 Madison, WI 53705-0443 (608) 233-2836 www.nalms.org

Board of Directors Reed Green – President Julie Chambers – President-Elect Terry McNabb – Past-President Mike Perry – Treasurer Sara Peel – Secretary Wendy Gendron – Region 1 Chris Mikolajczyk – Region 2 Imad Hannoun – Region 3 Jason Yarbrough – Region 4 Melissa Clark – Region 5 Brad Hufhines – Region 6 George Antoniou – Region 7 Mike Eytel – Region 8 Todd Tietjen – Region 9 Frank Wilhelm – Region 10 Anna DeSellas – Region 11 Ron Zurawell – Region 12 Nicki Bellezza – At-Large Director Ted Harris – Student Director

Staff Philip Forsberg Director of Programs & Operations Greg Arenz Director of Membership & Marketing If you are having a conference, have a lakerelated question, need advice, are looking for similar lake problems/solutions, have an interesting story to share, or just want to be heard throughout NALMS, please send your material to Steve Lundt at [email protected]. co.us. All newsletter material is due by the last Friday of each month to be considered for inclusion in the following month’s issue. Items included in NALMS Notes do not represent or imply the endorsement of any specific commercial product or service by NALMS.

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President’s Message Reed Green, President | [email protected]

NALMS Affiliates – Grass Roots of NALMS I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to visit two NALMS’ affiliate annual conferences over the past few weeks: the New England Chapter of NALMS and the Florida Lake Management Society conferences. The beauty of both NALMS and the NALMS affiliates is, given our different regional cultures, social and political views, and the variety of water bodies, we hold a common bond. We love to be on the water and want to make a difference. We want to make our waters better – protecting, restoring, and educating. NALMS affiliates are a very important part of NALMS, they are the grass-root folks active in their local lake associations and government organizations. It’s always fun to meet people and listen to their stories. I figure I was given two ears, two eyes, and one mouth to do more listening than talking. There are a lot of kind people in Vermont, the surrounding states, and down in Florida. Thank you all for your warm welcome and hospitality. I wish I could have stayed longer to take in some field trips and to visit more. I learned a lot about local lake issues through the many talks and discussions I attended. I do wish that I could get to all the NALMS affiliate meetings but time and schedule constraints get in the way. The background info that surprised me at both affiliate meetings was the longterm commitment and organizational structure of the volunteer monitoring networks. The beauty of volunteer monitoring is that the individuals that actually are in the boats taking measurement take great pride in what they’re doing. They’re well-trained and understand the importance of using consistent monitoring methods and quality control in collecting their measurements and samples – they take possession in what they’re doing and many have been doing it for decades, and a whole new generation of volunteer monitors is stepping in to replace those exiting. At NEC-NALMS, we met in Burlington, Vermont, almost a stone’s throw from Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is located at the base of many sub-watersheds draining all kinds of different land uses, including agricultural and urban. The common water quality issues include nutrient enrichment, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, invasive species, and something we tend to overlook, trash. The last talk of the NEC-NALMS session was presented by Rachael Miller, cofounder and Executive Director of the Rozalia Project. Rachael gave a great talk about marine debris in our oceans, lakes, and rivers. Did you know Lake Champlain has over 7 billion pieces of debris along its shoreline weighing over 515 tons?

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Membership in Motion Greg Arenz, Director of Membership and Marketing | [email protected]

In last month’s NALMS Notes I wrote an article looking at what membership is about from a member perspective. This month I’d like to touch on why your membership, and in particular your membership renewal, is important to NALMS. So why is your renewal important? To begin with it helps NALMS grow. Member retention is the key to growing NALMS. Sure, a massive influx of new members is always great. But if these members don’t stay we will never grow. Why do we need to grow? Well, historically NALMS has done a lot with a relatively small number of very active members. But every additional member amplifies the influence of those efforts. Policy makers and the general public hear so many messages each and every day. Your membership helps amplify our message above the din. Your renewal is also important because it provides stability. With four renewal periods throughout the year NALMS has, or should have, a consistent and steady base of member support. This support provides stability. Now picture a pyramid built from a wide base, layer upon layer, to a peak at the top. Member support is the base of this pyramid. This base supports the next layers up - our educational programs, publications and events. And ultimately member support helps NALMS reach the peak – the achievement of our mission to foster the management and protection of lakes and reservoirs. Lastly, your renewal is important to the health of our mission.

online here or by mail with the form found here. And if you have any issues with those two options you can call me at 608-233-2836. If you aren’t sure when your membership expires just have a look at the NALMS Notes email you received. You can find your membership expiration date in the upper right-hand corner of the email. 

NALMS Office Notes Philip Forsberg, Director of Programs and Operations | [email protected]

It’s been a busy month or so in the NALMS Office. We’ve had a crash course in running the Secchi DipIn and getting our new intern up to speed on it as well. This will be a learning year for all of us when it comes to the Dip-In. In addition to familiarizing ourselves with the nuts and bolts of the Dip-In, we’ve also partnered with USEPA and the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) on a new mobile phone app for entering Secchi data. The app will be beta-tested this July in Indiana and Rhode Island. As I hope you’ve noticed, we’ve also opened registration for our international symposium in Saratoga Springs, New York. We received an impressive number of abstracts and I think this will shape up to be an excellent conference. The local host committee has been working hard for many months to make this a great conference.

Every day NALMS members move lake and reservoir management forward. Every month members come together to plan for the future of NALMS. Every quarter members contribute their expertise to our publications. And every year we all get together at the Symposium to learn about what works for lakes and reservoirs. None of that is possible without the continued efforts and support of NALMS members.

We’ve also opened the call for abstracts for the National Monitoring Conference. This will be the 5th conference that NALMS has partnered with the National Water Quality Monitoring Council to put on this biennial conference. The 2016 version of the National Monitoring Conference will be held in Tampa, Florida from May 2 – 6. Being a larger conference than the typical NALMS symposium, we’ll be in the Tampa Convention Center, next door to where we held the 2014 NALMS symposium.

Currently I am working to renew members whose memberships will expire on June 30th. If you are one of these members please be sure to renew soon. You can renew

And of course, you can’t forget that we’re only days away from the Secchi Dip-In and Lakes Appreciation Month, both of which will take place the whole month of July. 

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Conferences & Events Saratoga Springs 2015

November 17 – 20, 2015 North American Lakes: Embracing Their History, Ensuring Their Future

Registration is Now Open! General Conference Information and Registration þ

bit.ly/NALMS2015

Sponsorship Information þ

bit.ly/NALMS2015Sponsorship

Call for Abstracts – 10th National Monitoring Conference Working Together for Clean Water – is the theme of the conference that will be held in Tampa, Florida, May 2 – 6, 2016. The National Water Quality Monitoring Council is requesting abstracts for oral presentations, posters, workshops, panels, short courses, and round table discussions that cover topics related to rivers and streams, lakes, wetlands, coastal waters and estuaries, groundwater, and drinking water. Abstracts are due September 18, 2015. Instructions for submitting abstracts and proposals are available on the conference website at: acwi.gov/monitoring/ conference/2016/

Aquatic Plant Management Society 2015 Annual Meeting July 12 – 15, 2015 • Myrtle Beach, South Carolina þ

American Fisheries Society 145th Annual Meeting

August 16 – 20, 2015 • Portland, Oregon þ

Exhibitor Information þ

bit.ly/NALMS2015Exhibitors

Do You Have a Conference or Workshop You’d Like to See Listed in NALMS Notes?

2015.fisheries.org

Aquatic Plants 2015: 14th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants

September 14 – 18, 2015 • Edinburgh, Scotland þ sites.google.com/site/aquaticplants2015/

 Annual Oregon Lakes Association Conference

Email the details to us at [email protected].

October 3, 2015 • Klamath Falls, Oregon þ www.oregonlakes.org

Saratoga Springs, New York Trivia:

 30th Annual California Lake Management Society Conference

Source: Haunted Places þ www.hauntedplaces.org/saratoga-springs-ny/

Too bad the Symposium will not be in Saratoga Springs during Halloween. Rumor has it there are many haunted places in and around Saratoga. An old casino, mansion, and hotel are known to be haunted in downtown Saratoga Springs. Plus, Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer in 1885 just up the road from Saratoga Springs and you can still visit the cottage. 4

apms.org/annual-meeting/2015-annual-meeting/

October 15 – 16, 2015 • Ontario, California þ www.california-lakes.org

 2015 Washington Lake Protection Association Conference October 26 – 28, 2015 • Walla Walla, Washington þ www.walpa.org/annual-conference/

 NALMS Affiliate Organizations NALMS Notes

NALMS News Call for Board Nominations

2015 NALMS Awards Call for Nominations

NALMS is seeking candidates that will add diversity and breadth to the Board and its committees. Nominations are being accepted for the following Board positions:

Each year NALMS recognizes individuals, organizations, and programs, corporations and projects that have contributed to the Society and to the science of lake and watershed management. Presented at the annual NALMS international symposium banquet, these awards were established to encourage the advancement of NALMS’ goals by recognizing outstanding efforts of our colleagues and encouraging similar activities.

• President-Elect • Treasurer • Region 2 Director – New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico • Region 6 Director – Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and all non-US / non-Canada members • Region 10 Director – Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington • Region 12 Director – Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Yukon • Student At-large Director – North America and beyond Nominations are due August 18, 2015. Visit the NALMS website for details on submitting nominations.

NALMS Awards will be presented this year at the Society’s 35th Annual Meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York. Nominations are being accepted in the following categories: Leadership and Service Awards • Volunteers (individuals or groups) • Education and Outreach (individuals or groups) Special Appreciation Awards • Secchi Disk Award (individual NALMS member) • Jim Flynn Award (NALMS Corporate member) • Friends of NALMS Award (individuals or corporations) • Lake Management Success Stories (individuals or organizations)

News from Our Affiliates What are NALMS affiliates up to these days? State and provincial lake management groups do fun things. Let NALMS and others know what you are up to. You spend a large amount of volunteer time to put on great events, might as well share them. Ohio Lake Management Society (OLMS) CLAM (Citizen Lake Awareness & Monitoring) program is the state’s volunteer lake monitoring effort. Ohio Lake Management Society provides an opportunity for people in Ohio to take an active role in learning about lakes, water quality, and watershed management. This program covers it all and has some really great resources including HAB material and tutorial videos on monitoring.

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• Advancements in Lake Management Technologies (individuals or organizations) Nominations are due August 15, 2015. Visit the NALMS website for details on submitting nominations.

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The SecchiDip-In

Join us this July for the 2015 Secchi Dip-In!

New Secchi Dip-In Intern

Rope vs. Tape Measure

My name is Lauren Salvato, and I am excited to introduce myself as the new Secchi Dip-In intern for NALMS. My previous experience with nonprofit groups includes Food and Water Watch, Operation Smile, and Transition Networks. I recently moved to Indiana from Albuquerque, New Mexico where I grew up and completed my Bachelor’s in Environmental Science and Sustainability. I am a dual Master’s candidate of Public Affairs and Environmental Science at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. My goal is to work in the public sector influencing environmental regulation and policy. I am very passionate about water-related issues and am excited to be working for NALMS. I hope to keep the Secchi Dip-In program running smoothly and increase its presence across the nation. Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions ([email protected]).

How do you take your water clarity reading, with a disk attached to a marked rope or attached directly to a tape measure? There are pros and cons to both. The rope needs to be marked and remarked, and the rope can stretch over time. The tape measure is more exact but the tape tends to weaken near the end of the tape and can break leaving you with a sad image of your disk floating to the lake bottom. Either way, just make sure you inspect your Secchi disk each time you go out to take a measurement. It is important to maintain any field equipment in order to take safe, reliable water quality data. 

Dip-In Basics

What are we Appreciating in July?

The Secchi Dip-In monitors water transparency, which provides so much information. Transparency is sensitive to changes in nutrient levels and to changes in the temperature structure of the lake. Transparency and turbidity can be measured by a variety of instruments in most every aquatic habitat.

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• Participants take a Secchi measurement on one day during the month of July. • Participants monitor lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, rivers, or streams, however they must already have the equipment and training to do so. Most Dip-In participants are members of an established volunteer or professional monitoring program. • When 5 or more years of data have been gathered on a site, it is used to determine trends in transparency. The Dip-In currently tracks over 2,000 waterbodies for trends in transparency.

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Find the Dip-In on the Web The SecchiDip-In

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them look like a Secchi disks? Shoreline clean ups make people feel good but so does sugar. After food comes entertainment. Make sure your July events include fun lake stuff; July 4th fireworks, boat rides and parades, fishing derbies, or community shoreline events will help solidify strong Lakes Appreciation Month memories. And don’t forget to include the Great North American Secchi Dip-In as part of your Lakes Appreciation Month celebration. This is a great way to make any July event an official Lakes Appreciation Month event. So finalize your Lakes Appreciation Month events, get people excited about experiencing their childhood, provide new memories for kids, shoot off some fireworks, find a celebrity to take the official Dip-In reading, and start baking those cookies – all in the name of Lakes Appreciation Month and staying young.  NALMS Notes

President’s Message ... Continued from page 2

The top items were microfoam (52%), microplastic (33%), and plastic sheeting, small plastic, glass pieces, large plastic, small foam, large foam, food wrappers, paper/tissue/ receipts, etc. (15%). This is not an isolated problem, it’s in every lake, reservoir, river, stream, and wetland.

including Brad Hufhines, Region 6 Director are working on getting an Arkansas affiliate established. Everyone watch out, we’ll be having a NALMS International Symposium in Arkansas sometime soon? In the meantime, those that are involved, stay involved. Those that are not get involved. 

I can relate personally to the efforts Rachael and others are doing to clean up trash. I’m involved in cleaning up Fourche Creek Bottoms, a 1,800-acre bottomland wetland in the heart of Little Rock, Arkansas. Over 70% of Little Rock (my home town) drains into Fourche Creek Bottoms. Between last fall and March 14, 2015, Friends of Fourche Creek picked up 1.36 tons of recyclables and 3.93 tons of trash out of the wetland! We’ve all heard that wetlands are good filters for sediment and nutrients, but they’re also filters for plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups, tires, and lumber. We even found a drone in one of the trash booms (that’s me in the front of the canoe). I encourage everyone to get involved in your local lake, reservoir, stream, river cleanup events. It’s a good way to meet people with similar interests and share what NALMS is all about.

Consider a Donation to NALMS

I had a great time at FLMS in Naples, Florida. The issues at FLMS include many of the same issues in New England – nutrient enrichment. What was impressive in Florida was the recent change from agriculture to urban runoff that is now loading the rivers and lakes. As a result, a number of TMDLs and nutrient criteria standards have been legislated. In many cases, the underlying geology is rich in phosphorus which complicates things quite a bit.

G. Dennis Cooke Symposium Fund

What is most encouraging after attending both NECNALMS and FLMS is the quality of students coming out of the various universities and colleges. Students are engaged and getting involved in limnology and lake management. Thank you all, the university faculty and staff that are passionate about educating and preparing our next generation of lake professionals and managers! Our students are our future! Let’s encourage and support them. Bottom line, I encourage everyone to get involved in their local NALMS affiliate organization. If you don’t have a local affiliate organization, create one. I and others in Arkansas

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In 2015, NALMS will focus our efforts at protecting lakes and their watersheds improving our environment, local economies and overall quality of life. NALMS will match your tax-deductible donations to the Eberhardt Student Fund, the Cooke Plenary Fund and general fund donations (Lake Givers Club) up to $25,000. You can donate at any time by simply visiting the donation page on the NALMS website at http://tinyurl.com/qzm36dw.

Eberhardt Memorial Student Fund The Eberhardt Memorial Student Fund supports travel grants for student presenters to attend the Annual Symposium. Awards may cover the costs of registration fees, travel, and/or overnight accommodations. In 2014, nine students received travel assistance to attend the Tampa Symposium thanks to NALMS member donations to the Eberhardt fund.

The G. Dennis Cooke Symposium Fund provides a way for individuals and organizations to join NALMS’ effort to facilitate the exchange of information on managing lakes and watersheds. The fund was established in November 2012 through a gift from G. Dennis Cooke, the first president of NALMS and Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University. The returns from this fund support themed sessions and plenary speakers at our annual Symposium.

Lake Givers Club The Lake Givers Club provides a way for individuals and organizations to make a significant contribution towards the management and protection of lakes and reservoirs. Contributions to the Lake Givers Club support NALMS’ educational publications, programs and operations.  7

Lake News & Information 12 Dams over the Next 12 Months

Disappearing Lake Powell

Source: Weather.com þ www.weather.com/travel/news/worlds-most-amazingdams-20130110#/6

Source: The Guardian þ www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/17/lake-powelldrought-colorado-river

Dams illustrate both the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one-sixth of the world’s electricity and irrigate one-seventh of our food crops. Combined they cover a land area the size of California. One dam will be highlighted each month in 2015. There are about 57,000 large dams world-wide but that would take 4,750 years to highlight.

Filled in 1963, Lake Powell’s original 1,900 mile shoreline has steadily dropped. The bathtub ring of calcium carbonate is as much as 100 feet above the water level. The lake is currently at 45% of capacity. Hidden treasures of natural arches and ancient ruins are starting to be exposed again. Boat challenges have increased with boaters running into more rocks just under the surface. The lake level is basically dependent on the amount of winter snowfall in the Rocky Mountains. What does all this mean for the dry, arid southwest? Will the lake ever fill back up again? Recent studies show that the Colorado River basin is the most over allocated river in the world. And it is not just surface water, groundwater levels are also quickly dropping.

Grand Coulee Dam (Washington State) One of the world’s largest concrete structures, Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River reaches 550 feet high and measures nearly a mile in length from end to end. Since it opened in 1942, the dam remains one of the nation’s largest producers of electricity. You can even watch a nightly laser light show on the face of it.

Word of the Day – “Supraglacial” Lake Source: msn.com þ www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/mystery-of-greenlandsdisappearing-lakes-solved/ar-BBkEkMg?ocid=DELLDHP

Supraglacial lake is a lake that forms on top of a glacier. These types of lakes are common in Greenland where recently scientists have discovered why some of them can disappear in a matter of hours. Imagine 12 billion gallons of water disappearing in less than two hours. The way they can drain so quickly is because of large, temporary hydrofractures that form under the lake that drain the water quickly to the underlying bedrock beneath the glacier.

Geese Control using Dogs in Ohio State Parks Source: Toledo News NOW þ www.toledonewsnow.com/story/29269933/ohio-geese-control-usesdogs-to-clean-maumee-bay-state-park-beach

Trained border collies are being used at Maumee Bay State Park to scare away geese and seagulls in order to help clean up the swim beach area. The birds are not harmed and the harassment teaches them to move away from the area. The dogs are used three times a day. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and EPA are both involved with this pilot project.

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Buried Treasures at the Bottom of the Lake Source: Mandatory þ www.mandatory.com/2015/06/09/10-hidden-treasures-you-could-stillfind/

Spain’s colonization of Central and South America was fueled by the country’s desire for gold. The New World had lots of gold, and the King of Spain wanted it all. Hernán Cortés was their man on the ground, and one night in 1520 things slipped away from him. The Spaniards had been holding the Aztec king Moctezuma II hostage, but on June 30 he died, sending the capital of Tenochtitlan into chaos. Cortés and his men had to retreat, leaving behind a massive amount of treasure. When they returned the next year, all of the gold was gone. The most popular theory is that the Aztecs threw it into Lake Texcoco, where it was buried in the silt and then built over by what is now Mexico City. 

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You Decide Read this item and then decide for yourself what you think about it. Should trash cans be provided at a park around a lake? Should lake visitors be responsible for carrying out their own trash? Free carry in/ carry out with no trash cans vs. paying an agency to do trash service. Or is the bigger question, money vs. trash? Is a trash problem a sign of laziness or lack of thought or care for others?

Register Now for NALMS 2015! www.nalms.org

Source: KREM (Spokane, Wash.) þ www.krem.com/story/news/local/spokane-county/2015/06/10/trashpiles-up-in-medical-lake-without-garbage-bins/71040302/

Read the article and give it some thought. You think it would make sense to provide simple trash cans at a lake park but you would also think that people should be fully capable of leaving the park the way they find it, without their trash piling up behind them. What side are you on when it comes to trash collection? If you provide trash cans, someone has to pay to have them serviced, people will still litter, and more trash might end up at the lake because it encourages people to leave trash behind. No trash cans and people will just leave their trash on the ground or it might encourage them to be more consciences of their trash and take it with them or bring less trash with them to the park in the first place. Trash management is a big deal. When most people, especially kids, think of water quality they think of trash in or near the water. 

Invasive Species Question – Best Way to Remove Carp? What is the best way to remove carp from a lake? One component of an invasive species is that they are hard to get rid of. With carp, what is the best way to remove them from a lake to help improve water quality? There is netting, poisoning, bow fishing, fish shocking, and maybe even TNT. Are there other ways and are there special techniques that produce a higher yield in removing carp? If you have suggestions or experiences, please send them to NALMS, and they will be shared in the next electronic newsletter. In addition, has anyone measured the water quality benefits after removing carp from a lake? Please share what you know about getting rid of carp. June 2015

You shop. Amazon gives…to NALMS You shop on Amazon right? Well now you can help NALMS at the same time with AmazonSmile. When you shop at smile.amazon.com you still get all the same low prices and wide selection you’ve come to expect from Amazon. Only now 0.5% of your purchase price can go to NALMS. The average online order these days hovers around $70. So on average about 35¢ per order could come to NALMS to enhance our programs and further our mission. That may not sound like much but every penny can make a difference. And when you add those pennies up, say, over 1,000 NALMS supporters making two purchases a year, the total comes to $700. Not too shabby. Now imagine those 1,000 supporters got a couple of friends to join in as well. Now we’re rolling at $2,100. You can help us get going by getting set-up today – here’s how: 1. Go to smile.amazon.com. 2. Log into your account or create a new one. 3. Look up and select “North American Lake Management Society” when prompted. 4. Shop until you drop. 5. And don’t forget to tell your friends and family!

Website of the Month þ www.toxicalgaenews.com

Harmful algal blooms are all the craze it seems like thanks to Toledo’s situation last year. Here is a great website that many state agencies are using to help with learning how to deal with HABs and with getting the messaging right for the public. Toxic algae even have its own hash tag and Twitter account.  9

Lake Photo of the Month Cedar Lake Indiana by Frank Gruhlke.

To be considered for NALMS' Lake Photo of the Month please submit your photo to the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) Flickr Group. Photos should focus on the lake and be geotagged or include the name or location of the lake in the title, description or tags of the photo.

Welcome New Members! Julie Blackburn Sarah Burnet Vicki Burns Pierre Chagnon

Janel Chap Gene Cole Lisa Griffin John Manske

Marie Williams Britney Wells

Thank You to Our Renewing Members! Matt Albright, CLM Janet Andersen Terry Anderson Aqua Cleaner Environmental, Inc. Arrowhead Lake Association Barbara Barry Ralph Bednarz Victor Bierman Mike Blankinship Eugene Braig David Buetow Richard Chase City Utilities of Springfield Kelly Cline Colorado Lake & Reservoir Management Association (CLRMA) John-Mark Davies

Li Ding Daniel Engstrom Rolland Fulton Seyoum Gebremariam Jennifer Graham Ray Hanowell Bill Harding, CLM Highland Lake Watershed Association Patty Hoch-Melluish Russ Hoffman Mark Hoyer, CLM Laura Hubbard George Izaguirre Janis Markusic Chris Mayne, CLM Kevin Menken Ohio Lake Management Society

Ted Peters Chuck Pugh Bruce Richards, CLM Jason Smith South Tahoe Public Utility District Kasie Stambaugh Pam Tyning Patricia Vanderland Washington State Lake Protection Association Water Resource Services John Wilks Gene Williams Lois Wolfson Rob Zisette

Update Your Contact Information NALMS members can now go online to correct their own contact information and are encouraged to do so. Please tell your friends and colleagues who are NALMS members to check and update their records. If they are not getting LakeLine, Lake and Reservoir Management or NALMS Notes something is wrong. If they don't have access to fix their own contact info, they can call the NALMS office at 608.233.2836 or email Greg Arenz at ([email protected]) to make changes. This goes for postal service mail as well.

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