Lake Management Committee Report

Curly Leaf Pondweed mapping:  June 16 and 23 Doug Mulville, Greg Heber, and Bob Baker spent approximately 9 hrs mapping the curly leaf pondweed in Lipsett Lake.  The bottom was sampled at 165 sites around the perimeter of the lake with special emphasis on the south end using an aquatic rake attached to a long rope.  We will have Brad Morris, Burnett County Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator, take our data and produce a new curly leaf map of the lake later this summer, so it is too soon to tell if there have been significant changes since the original mapping in 2007.  However, we did find curly leaf in several locations in the north end where it was not present 5yrs ago.

Purple Loosestrife update:  While we were mapping curly leaf pondweed we noticed what appeared to be the distinctive showy flowers of purple loosestrife along the southwest shoreline.  These will have to be checked out and if indeed loosestrife has reappeared, it will be removed and sprayed.  If anyone observes what they think might be purple loosestrife along any Lipsett Lake shoreline, please contact Greg Heber, any of the Lake Association officers/board members, or Bob Baker so that it can be checked out.

Clean Boats Clean Waters boat launch monitoring:  We are still in need of a number of volunteers to staff the public access the weekend of June 30-July 1 and July 7 and 8.  Shifts are two hours, but this is a wonderful way to help protect our lake from the introduction of additional invasive aquatic species beyond the two we already have: purple loosestrife and curly leaf pondweed.  If you have never worked the public landing before, just arrive a few minutes early and the people working the shift before you will gladly train you in.  To sign up to work, just access the sign-up sheet through the Lipsett Lake Blog.

Northwest Lakes Conference:  The NW Lakes was held June 22 at Spooner High School.  Linda Beal, Grace Huth, Jon Huth, Greg Heber, Ruth Baker, and Bob Baker attended.  Their reports on the informative sessions they attended will be appearing in the Association Blog shortly.