May 2015 - Lake Alice Association
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May 2015 - Lake Alice Association
Lake Alice Association Newsletter VOL.17, NO.1, MAY/JUNE 2015 www.lakealice.info Mission Statement of the Lake Alice Association: To protect, preserve and improve the integrity of Lake Alice and its eco-systems through education of and communication between concerned citizens. Board of Directors Glenn Mott, President (715)453-7378 (Term Expires May 2017) Fred Brach, AIW Coordinator (262)337-1721 (Term Expires May 2017) Linda Mott (715)453-7378 (Term Expires May 2017) Michael Toelle, Vice Pres/Newsletter Ed. (715)824-5383 (Term Expires May 2016) Andrea Michaud, Secretary (715)453-4883 (Term Expires May 2017) Gerald Bennett (715)493-0336 (Term Expires May 2016) Kris Toelle, Treasurer/Newsletter Editor (715)824-5383 (Term Expires May 2016) George Nelson (815)262-7216 (Term Expires May 2017) Wayne Allen (715)453-8578 (Term Expires May 2015) Lisa Albrecht (608)-469-5509 (Term Expires May 2017) Ron Miller (715)453-8346 (Term Expires May 2016) Julianne Mossak (651)260-6600 (Term Expires May 2015) Annual Meeting And Membership Drive Information In This Issue Page 2 Annual Meeting—June 6th, 10:30 a.m. at Bottoms Up This year’s annual meeting will be held June 6th, at 10:30 a.m. at Bottoms Up, which is located on Highway A. Lunch will be provided along with discussion on various important Lake Alice topics. Topics— Invasive Species, Grants, Membership Drive, Alice In Winterland, Association Finances/Budget, and Election of Board Members Guest Speaker— Dave Seibel, Fish Biologist for Lincoln and Langlade Counties. ****Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan on attending the meeting.**** LAKE ALICE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM By Glenn Mott, Association Board President Why do we have a Lake Alice Stewardship program? The short answer is ―Because We Care‖. We believe that people working together can make a difference. We can protect and restore a healthy ecosystem if we take a long-term, strategic approach. This is the plan that we followed in the 3-phase stewardship plan that we are using on Lake Alice. This plan is intended to be an adaptive plan in the sense that it will grow and evolve. It will be evaluated, reviewed and refined as the years go by and new generations take up their stewardship responsibility. We encourage each property owner or any one that wants to be part of this stewardship to join the Lake Alice Association or contact any of the Directors for further information about the program. HISTORY: 1909 or 1910 Kings Dam was constructed by the Bradley Company forming Lake Alice. 1998 Lake Alice Association first meeting with $10.00 per year dues. 2001 Lake Alice Association officially incorporated. April 2009 Phase I Lake Alice Stewardship program 1. Inventory relevant information on Lake Alice and its watershed. 2. Prepare an initial adaptive management plan. 3. Deliver educational elements that convey information about Lake Alice April 2010 Phase II Stewardship program 1. Aquatic plant management history 2. Aquatic plant community description 3. Water Quality 4. Water use 5. Riparian area 6. Wildlife October 2012 Phase III Stewardship 1. Evaluate Lake Alice use by rare vertebrate animals [loons, bald eagle etc.] 2. Study of near shore littoral zone. 3. Assess the status of wild rice. 4. Frog and toad monitoring. 5. Update status of aquatic invasive species. 6. Update aquatic plant management plan and adaptive management plan. April 2013 Finding the extent of Curley Leaf Pondweed 1. Evaluate the extent of CLP. 2. 2014 Determine the extent of CLP. 3. 2015 Determine how far CLP has died back. July 2014 Early diction and rapid response to Eurasian Milfoil 1. Grant has been verbally approved by the DNR we are waiting for formal approval. Page 3 Walleye Dom Teske 21-3/4‖ Dale Kohnhorst 21-1/4‖ Jake Nelson 20-3/4‖ 2015 “Alice in Winterland” Fishing Winners and Pictures The winning Northern Pike Northern Pike Averi Petta 34-1/2‖ Claude Mackay 31-3/4‖ Fisher Richmond 30-3/4‖ Crappie Jack Lacina 14–7/8‖ Kevin Kahn 13-7/8‖ Cassidee Schoone 13-1/2‖ Perch Troy Schoeneck 12‖ Diane Leverance 11-3/4‖ Joe Haring 11-1/2‖ Proud fisherman displaying his Perch Blue Gill Bob Mootz 9-3/8‖ Pat Cleveland 9-3/8‖ Bob Mootz 9‖ Cash Raffle Winners The cash raffle was a big hit again this year with $6935 worth of tickets being sold. Congratulations goes out to our three big winners. 1st place- $1,000- Surewood Forest 2nd place- $500- Steve Hommerding 3rd place- $250- Peggy Lindholm Page 4 Thank You to all of our Sponsors— Without the help of our sponsors ―Alice In Winterland‖ wouldn’t be possible. Please take the time to thank the following local and non-local businesses. Your patronage would be appreciated and be helpful for our continued success. A Touch of Gold Ace Hardware AJ Sports Bar American Family Insurance American Legion Aquatic Arts Fishing Pro Shop Augie’s Collectables Bambino’s Italian Eatery Bearskin Inn Ben Franklin Berkinsee Campground Besse's on Clear Lake Bethel Excavating Billy Bob's Bootleggers Bottoms Up Bar & Grill BP Gas Station-Tomahawk Breaman Ford-Merrill Bridge Inn Calhoun’s Auto Repair Carquest Cerny’s Greenhouse Chuck’s Sports Shop Clover Club Cockatiel’s Bar & Grill Crossroads Mobil Station - Rstore Culver's - Merrill Diel Insurance Dr Bobbie Voermans & Dr Grace Zuiker @ Allied Health Ebel’s Family Center Edgewater Country Club Edward Jones Erv’s Sales and Service Family Traditions Four Corners Fuzzy's Auto Geiss Meats Generations Funeral Home Gin Mill Great Lakes Foods Happy Snapper Harrison Oasis Heritage Chevrolet Hilgy’s LP Gas Holly’s HomeTown Feed Mill HT Enterprises Ingman’s Parkway Pub Ingman’s Service Jackie’s Hair Salon Kevin Urmann State Farm Ins King’s Dam Kwik Trip-Merrill Lake Aire Best Western Lincoln County Cycles Lincoln County Sports Club McDonald’s Mike & Joannes Walleye Lodge Muskie River Lodge Nelsons County Market Nimmer Swimmer Nokomis Pub & Eatery North Country Yamaha Northwoods Pub Nut-Zee's Bar & Restaurant Oakridge gifts Oaks Pub Old Towne Mall O'Reilly Auto Parts PCA Mill of Tomahawk Piggly Wiggly-Merrill Pine Pointe Resort Pine Tree Supper Club Pomps Tire - Rhinelander Quirt Family Dentistry-Merrill R & K Pub River Valley Bank Rivers Edge Road Lake Pub and Grill Robert Imm Dentistry Rodeo Saloon Rodeway Inn and Suites Sammy’s Subs Scarlet Garden Schaefer's Wharf Sew Pieceful Quilting Shell Gas Station ShopKo Shorthorns Silverbirch Supper Club Snap-On Tools Somo Beach Club Somo View Standard Merchantile Strikers Tomahawk Bowl Strokers on 86 Subway Sure Strike-MS Manufacturing Surewood Forest Surewood Forest Campground The Cheese Shop The Liquor Store The Thirsty Giraffe Tom and Mary Fahey Tomahawk Battery Tomahawk Building Supply Tomahawk Community Bank Tomahawk Family Restaurant Tomahawk Furniture Tomahawk Lodge Tomahawk Pellet Stove Junction Tomahawk Sports Tomahawk Surplus Store Tomahawk Warehouse Liquor Town and Country Realty Twin Bay United Steelworkers Local 460 Vieguts WalMart-Merrill WI Valley Improvement Co. Wild North Saloon Page 5 2015 “Alice in Winterland” Financials RECIEPTS EXPENSES General Raffle Card Raffles Food & Beer Fish Registration Donations 4010.00 2905.00 1048.00 3050.00 1275.00 $ 12,288.00 TOTAL PROFIT: $7571.79 General Raffle Prizes Card Raffle Prizes Food & Beer General Expenses Fish Prize Money CASH RAFFLE SALES 1ST,2ND,3RD PLACE PRIZE MONEY PRINTING/MAILING PROFIT 1355.84 600.20 611.99 1398.18 750.00 $4716.21 $ 6935.00 -1,750.00 -264.70 $4920.30 THANK YOU: We would also like to extend a big thank you for all of the volunteers at this year’s Alice in Winterland. Thanks for all your hard work! Please visit our website, www.lakealice.info for more pictures from this years event. What a great time! New Fish Regulations for Lake Alice The entire Northern Wisconsin seeded territory has new bag limits for the 2015/16 fishing season. Below is a quick summary of the new regulations for Walleyes. Please see the DNR Fishing Handbook for further information. Walleye Bag Limit 3 fish total per day 2 times bag limit is the total possession limit per fisherman No walleye under 15 inches or between 20 - 24 inches may be kept One fish over 24 inches may be kept per day Page 6 LAA Applies for WDNR Funding to Address Eurasian Watermilfoil By Dr. Dean Premo, White Water Associates In its mission to maintain the health of the Lake Alice ecosystem, the Lake Alice Association (LLA) has applied for a WDNR Early Detection and Response Grant. If funded, this project will address a newly discovered population of the aquatic invasive species (AIS) called Eurasian watermilfoil (EWM). The LAA is working with the environmental consulting firm White Water Associates on this project. White Water has worked with the LAA since 2009 on various lake stewardship projects. Last summer (2014), the Lincoln County AIS coordinator discovered a small patch of EWM. This was the first know occurrence of EWM in Lake Alice. With assistance from lake steward Fred Brach, White Water staff immediately visited the site to locate and document EWM in the vicinity of the original find. Fred Brach also worked with White Water biologists Angie Stine and Caitlin Clarke to investigate all of Lake Alice for additional EWM. Although no more EWM was found, Fred showed Angie and Caitlin some purple loosestrife plants (another invasive species) on the margins of Lake Alice. The Lincoln County AIS coordinator was informed of these plants and will remove them. Later in the summer, White Water biologists hand-pulled 56 pounds of EWM from the originally identified sites. The new grant will assist the LAA to continue this work in 2015 and 2016. The team of White Water biologists and LAA volunteers will continue to monitor for EWM and hand-pull any that are encountered. White Water biologists will conduct a point-intercept aquatic plant survey in all of Lake Alice. White Water conducted this type of survey on Lake Alice back in 2010. The new survey will allow the lake scientists to determine how the aquatic plants in Lake Alice may have changed over the years. This is an important way to determine if AIS like EWM and curly-leaf pondweed are being detrimental to the native plants. The grant will also allow White Water to include all of this new information in an updated version of the Lake Alice Aquatic Plant Management Plan. Finally, the WDNR grant will allow the LAA to host a workshop for lake volunteers and other interested people, with emphasis on the plant community of Lake Alice. The workshop will include hands-on experience in identifying plants including EWM so that volunteers can continue to monitor the status of the plant community. Lake stewardship in this new millennium is an ongoing effort in vigilance when it comes to potential impacts like AIS. When a new population is encountered early, it can sometimes be managed by fairly simple efforts. The more Lake Alice users that can identify problem species and report them to authorities, the more likely that early detection and speedy response can be conducted. Please see AIS photos on the back page— Eurasian Watermilfoil and Purple Loosestrife Page 7 Why Is The Association Running a Membership Drive? By Michael Toelle, Association Vice-President The mission statement of the Lake Alice Association is ―To protect, preserve and improve the integrity of Lake Alice and its eco-systems through education of and communication between concerned citizens‖. In order to complete our mission we need to increase our membership base. Currently, the association has 200 memberships which consists of full time lake residents, summer residents, businesses, and even off-water individual who frequently use Lake Alice for recreational purposes. Over the last 5 years the association board has written numerous state grants to improve the quality of the eco -system on the lake. While completing the grant funded lake studies, several eco-system issues have been identified such as: Purple Loosestrife plants, a small amount of Eurasian Watermilfoil, Rusty Crayfish, and about 40 acres of Curley Pond Weed. To remedy these issues it will take funding, manpower, and expertise. We do realize the vast backgrounds, talents, and connections individuals on the lake have and in order to tap into all resources we want to work with and educate as many individuals as possible. The old phrase ―strength in numbers‖ applies as to combat the issues the association will need a strong membership base. Membership dues are only $10.00 per year which includes two newsletters loaded with information. Please consider joining your association by filling out the membership form below. MEMBERSHIP FORM Lake Alice Association Memberships run from July 1st to June 30th of the following year. When you receive your May newsletter the expiration date will be reflected on your mailing label. If you receive your newsletter via email, you will receive a separate email letting you know when you are due for renewal. Members may renew for up to 5 years at one time at a cost of $10 per year. Renew your membership or pass this form on to a friend or neighbor and encourage them to become a member. Send the membership form to: Kris Toelle at the address below. Make checks payable to ―Lake Alice Association‖. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM Name_____________________________________________ Mailing Address______________________________________ City ___________________________State ______ZIP _______ Email address:____________________________________ I have enclosed $ __________ to renew my membership for ___________ years. Mail renewals to: Michael and Kris Toelle 2850 Tomorrow River Road Amherst Junction, WI 54407 Above photos taken by White Water staff on Lake Alice during the summer of 2014 Left—This is a picture of the Eurasian Watermilfoil that was hand-pulled by White Water biologist Angie Stine. Right—This is Purple Loosestrife plant along with several other we found in Lake Alice wetlands in 2014. Lake Alice Website The Lake Alice Association website, www.lakealice.info , is a valuable tool used to post information and communicate with association members. Please visit the website for more information on grants, projects, Alice in Winterland Fundraiser and general association information. Amherst Junction, WI 54407 2850 Tomorrow River Road Lake Alice Association Newsletter Editors Michael and Kris Toelle