Water: A bigger picture
Those who live on and advocate for lakes can easily (and appropriately) obsess over everyday demands. What’s happening with the Secchi readings? Will we get that new invasive species grant? How can we do more to protect natural shorelines? But now and then it’s useful to step back and see water in the big picture:…
No Clues
Please feel free to share this post with your personal netowks and to subscribe to this blog. Birch Lake froze on November 30, pretty much typical if our year-by-year record is to be trusted. This time is different, though. Usually I get to enjoy watching the ice slowly form, a sheet gradually spreading out from shore…
Mother water
Please feel free to share this post with your personal networks and to subscribe to this blog. I recently met an old friend for lunch at a place on the far west side of Manitowoc. I can’t be that close to my home water—Lake Michigan—without paying a visit. The attraction is like gravity. I drove…
Preserving shorelines
When it comes to safeguarding valuable and sensitive lands, shorelines generally top the list. And shorelines are a high priority for the Northwoods Land Trust, dedicated to permanently conserving natural parcels of land in Vilas, Oneida, Forest, Florence, Iron, Price and Langlade counties. Last July, the land trust reached a milestone with its 100th conservation easement.…
The Lake Guy on TV: Watching the Lakes Freeze
Please feel free to share this post with your personal and professional networks, and to subscribe to my blog. A highlight of my year on the lake is watching the ice form, a process that generally covers a few weeks from mid-November into early December. It takes quite a few days to make a complete…
The search for the Luny Frog
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A good influence
On a late-summr evening I hooked and landed a smallmouth bass on Birch Lake, where I live. It was only an 8-incher, but it was significant because I caught it using a fly rod and a bass bug. And I owe this event largely to my 13-year-old grandson, Tucker Kulow, of Plymouth. I’d neglected my…
Dave Greschner: Outdoors with soul
Please feel free to share this post with your friends and personal networks and to subscribe to this blog. Many people write about the outdoors. Some can make readers feel like we’re actually out there, on the lake, in the woods, wearing the boots or snowshoes. Far fewer also help us appreciate the why of…
A scary invader
Please feel free to share this post within your personal and professional networks and to subdscribe to this blog (it’s free!). I grew up in a small town on Lake Michigan and saw firsthand the proliferation of zebra mussels there. They encrusted hard surfaces and clogged water utility intake pipes. Their shells built up in…