Restoration Projects
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:16 am
With a couple new lakes on the western lake shore, I figured I'd help inform what is going on around these lakes, and maybe start some dialogue about how MMA can get involved in the future with these fisheries. With the right habitat I feel these new lakes can thrive, and will have nearly enough natural fish to eventually reduce the burden on the hatchery, freeing up resources for even more population restoration projects.
First is Mona Lake, they even put a helpful little blurb on their site about muskies (including a pic of one of our more outspoken old members )
Also check out the links throughout their site under the threats to the watershed, and special projects
http://www.monalakewatershed.org/index. ... l-projects
Muskegon Lake's website isn't that great, but there are numerous areas of concern they are working on. There is a little info on what they have done and what they want to do under the "Our Work" heading. Ill also throw out the Wild Rice plan, and how that went. It started as a failure in somewhat humorous fashion, but from the people I have talked to, is something they aggressively want to succeed in restoring to the watershed.
http://muskegonlake.org/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=29
http://www.mrwa.org/project-wildrice.htm
White lake. It seems as though they are nearly finished with the cleanup of White Lake, but there is certainly some shoreline restoration that can still be done. This past year there was some major dredging and removal of excessive and contaminated sediment near the mouth of the river. The new focus is cleaning the name/image of the lake, now that the cleaning of the lake is nearly complete.
http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/aoc/whitelake/index.html
With the new opportunities for us to fish, these are also some excellent opportunities for the MMA to get involved. With the new regulations this year, the preservation of fish populations is in place, and maybe this is an opportunity for us to put the restoration and education parts of the mission statement into action?!?!
First is Mona Lake, they even put a helpful little blurb on their site about muskies (including a pic of one of our more outspoken old members )
Also check out the links throughout their site under the threats to the watershed, and special projects
http://www.monalakewatershed.org/index. ... l-projects
Muskegon Lake's website isn't that great, but there are numerous areas of concern they are working on. There is a little info on what they have done and what they want to do under the "Our Work" heading. Ill also throw out the Wild Rice plan, and how that went. It started as a failure in somewhat humorous fashion, but from the people I have talked to, is something they aggressively want to succeed in restoring to the watershed.
http://muskegonlake.org/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=29
http://www.mrwa.org/project-wildrice.htm
White lake. It seems as though they are nearly finished with the cleanup of White Lake, but there is certainly some shoreline restoration that can still be done. This past year there was some major dredging and removal of excessive and contaminated sediment near the mouth of the river. The new focus is cleaning the name/image of the lake, now that the cleaning of the lake is nearly complete.
http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/aoc/whitelake/index.html
With the new opportunities for us to fish, these are also some excellent opportunities for the MMA to get involved. With the new regulations this year, the preservation of fish populations is in place, and maybe this is an opportunity for us to put the restoration and education parts of the mission statement into action?!?!