Summer 2021 Friends of Lynx Lake, There has been a change of plans for this year’s Annual Meeting. We have decided to once again postpone our meeting out of an abundance of caution. We will, however, be holding an outdoor workshop featuring noted naturalist and author John Bates. Allow me to elaborate. Patty and Pete […]
I noticed a few dead balsam firs on our property the other day. A few days later I noticed that other balsam’s on our property had dead needles at the tip of some branches. I called a forester with the DNR and found out the reason for the brown/dead needles is spruce budworm. The link […]
Steve Garritson sent in this photograph of a beautiful walleye he caught last weekend on Lynx Lake. He included the following note: “She was over 25″ and I am sure over 5 pounds even though spawned out. Of course she was released. I have caught different year classes so I think the Lake Association efforts […]
I received the following as a representative of the Presque Isle Town Lake Association and was asked to forward to the Lake Association membership – Fritz. Some of you may be aware that Boulder Junction is currently improving internet broadband access to all its citizens and businesses. The Town of Presque Isle is in […]
Friends of Lynx Lake, As I write this there are snow flurries and a briskness in the air. The wind is coming from the north swirling past the point and creating whitecaps in my bay. If not for the daffodils with their bright yellow and orange helmets standing at attention in my yard, one might […]
About seven years ago, Margaret and I were going out to dinner when we noticed someone walking along the lakeshore in front of our cabin. Thinking they might need some help, I walked down to our dock and found it was a group of researchers studying dragonflies. I would have liked to have stayed and […]
The Presque Isle Town Board is in the process of determining whether to regulate wake boats on Presque Isle Lakes. Wake boats are recreational boats that are designed or modified to generate extraordinary large wakes for activities such as wake surfing, wake jumping, or wake boarding. The extraordinarily large wakes produced by wake boats can […]
Friends on the Lake, 2020 is over. Glad it is. The pandemic drove a huge wedge through our collective normalcy. The civil unrest was an awakening, the political climate was turbulent, and the environment continued to send messages that all is not well. Hopefully, 2021 will be a year to gather again both emotionally and […]
As a reminder, the Lynx Lake Conservation Foundation donated $1,000 to the Carlin Lake Association to help in their lawsuit with the water bottling plant. Happy new year, Friends of Carlin Lake! The last nine months of 2020 have been so eventful that it may be difficult to remember back to good news from […]
The following letter from the Lynx Lake Conservation Foundation was mailed last week. December, 2020 Dear Friends of Lynx and Red Bass Lake, If you are like most people I know, I suspect you can’t wait for 2020 to come to an end, and are looking forward to a better 2021. Hopefully, the distribution […]