This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• Thank You Becky!
• Fish Shelters Project – On Schedule!
• Shorelines of Inland Lakes, A Very Important Aspect of Assessing Lakes
• Update: DeWitt Marine’s Permit Application
• Road-End Legislation: SB 778 Becomes Public Act 56
• 2012 Aquatic Plant Survey
• Shanty Creek – Grass River Sedimentation Project Update
• Possible Volunteering Opportunities
• TLA/GRNA Charity Golf Tournament

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

1. Announcement of a new Executive Director, Leslie Meyers
2. TLA’s grants to local science teachers
3. Possible solution to the TCE plume problem
4. Lake Trout subspecies discovered in Elk Lake
5. Grass River Sedimentation Project
6. Fish Shelters  Project
7. Launching another Science Education grant program

A hard copy of TLA’s JULY Newsletter is being mail to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• Grass River Sedimentation Study: progress report
• Removal of Eurasian watermilfoil from Torch Lake
• 2011 Summer Interns, Grass River Sedimentation Project
• Brianne Lunn: From TLA Intern in 2003 to Graduate Student, Fisheries Biology
• Fracking Education Event, Successful Golf Outing, new Star Buoy signs

A hard copy of TLA’s April 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• New Grass River Sediment Project

• Butch’s Marina Cleanup

• 2010 Water Quality Monitoring Results

• Bay Harbor CKD Leachate Problem Update

• DNR Director to speak at Annual Meeting

A hard copy of TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• DNRE’s clean up of gasoline from old leaks at Butch’s Marina

• TLA support of efforts to upgrade rules governing Fracking

• Preliminary findings from TLA Membership Opinion Survey

• TLA’s awards 2011 grants to local schools for environmental education

• Confirming TLA’s concern about proposed Forest Home Twp Park

A hard copy of TLA’s October Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

• 2010 Summer Internship Program, Cladophora green-algae survey

• Eurasian water milfoil in Torch Lake

• 2010 E.coli test results, tributary monitoring

• Lake trout from Torch Lake: Fish Consumption Advisory

• Loon Research Program

• Bay Harbor, cement kiln dust leachate problem: Update

This issue contains the following articles:

• 2010 Summer Internship Program, Cladophora green-algae survey
• Central Lake High School’s Envirothon Team, 7th in State
• Boat Props causing lake & river bottom damage
• TLA and MSU: Mini-Symposium on water quality protection
• E.coli test results
• Swimmer’s Itch, Bay Harbor CKD Leachate Update, and Burning Boat

Articles in this issue include…

* High School Interns wrap up their internship project
* Phragmites
* Dead Ducks from Diazinon insecticide misuse
* 2009 E.coli monitoring results
* Environment Education Outreach Program: 2nd Year
* Update on Bay Harbor CKD leachate issue
* Derek Walton’s observations in Ecuador (one of TLA’s 2005 Summer Interns)
* Joint Educational Event and fish stocking in our lakes