2024 July - December Posts

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General ice thickness guidelines
Update on the Dec 12 Cold Spring City Council Meeting
Calling all Lake Enthusiasts!
Watch for the Lake Turnover Process!
Latest Flowering Rush Report
MN Lakes and Rivers Webinar Recording Now Available
MNLR Sept Post
And Then There Were Seven!
How Well Do you Know Minnesota? Part 5
Lake Level Update
MPR Series On MN Shorelines
Shoreland Owner Training for AIS Prevention
Cold Spring Dam Update
Blue Green Algae reported on the Chain
How Well Do you Know Minnesota? Part 4
A note about the recent rainfall…
Be a Hero Transport Zero - Use Decon Stations
Spring assessment results: Joe Stewig, DNR Fisheries Manager
Notice of Public Meeting
How Well Do you Know Minnesota? Part 3
AIS Activities on the Chain this Summer
See the latest Lake Stewards!
Water Quality monitoring time!
How Well Do you Know Minnesota? Part 2
An update on weed control. 
MPR Article
Be a Hero Transport Zero - Drain Livewell

2024 Jan-June Posts

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🌸 Beer & Blooms 🌸
Lake Steward Program Gains Momentum!
Mechanical Weed Removal Continues
Recap of Annual Meeting and Annoucement of Board Members
Be a Hero Transport Zero - Clean Off Your Anchor.
How Well Do you Know Minnesota? Part 1
Be a Hero Transport Zero - Drain All Water
Response to Weeds on the Chain
Stop the Spread: How to Get AIS OUT of your boat - Webinar
Curly-leaf Pondweed Chemical Treatment on Knaus Completed
Curly-leaf Pondweed Treatment Update
Lawns to Legumes: Your Yard Can BEE the Change
Lake Level Update
Message from MN COLA president Joe Schneider
Minnesota’s Vanishing Natural Shorelines: A Loss that Contributes to Degraded Lake Quality
Response from the DNR about the Cold Spring Dam
2023 Water Quality Report

2023 Posts

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NEW LEGISLATION: Sec. 66 Storing Garbage and Waste On Ice
Sauk River Chain of Lakes Aquatic Plant Management End of Year Report 2023
Healthy Waters Initiative Update
Flowering Rush New Infestation and Innovative Control Project
Cold Spring Property Acquisition Update
2023 Fall Chain Link Featured Story
State of Water: How suburban home aesthetics are scarring Minnesota shorelines
Starry Stonewort discovered in Clearwater Lake
What Will Be Lost
Sauk River Chain of Lakes water-quality solutions start with livestock producers
Aquatic Invasive Species PSA Series #3
Protect the Loons and their chicks
Caution Buoys at Sandy Point
What is that stuff floating on the Chain?
Aquatic Invasive Species PSA Series #1
Are Picture-Perfect Grass Lawns on Their Way Out? 
Northern Lights off Little Cedar Island
'Shoreline-distancing' begins on Lake Minnetonka
Clean In Clean Out
Catfish 2023 Recap
2022 SRCLA Water Quality Report now available
Interesting Article about the Cold Spring Dam
Successful 2023 Catfish Fest
Shady's 2nd Annual Curling Tournament
Knaus Lake Park Proposal Concept

2022 Posts

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2022 Aquatic Plant Survey Final Report Now Available
Are you a Lake Steward? Take the Quiz!
Stearns County SWCD Backyard Habitat Program
Stearns County SWCD Pollinator Habitat Program
2022 Great Northern Harvest Plot