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Finally, we have some good solid ice and can get I’m sure you’ve noticed before, but if you haven’t
our wheelhouses out! Ours has been out for a you hopefully will now, that our membership also
couple weeks but we haven’t gotten any fish to includes some businesses that support Big Sauk
speak of, but I know at least a few that have had Lake Association. Please help us show our
some success. As I write this, we are “hunkering appreciation for their support by patronizing this
down” for the next round of snow, so I’m not sure businesses whenever possible. We all join
when we’ll be able to get out again. together in desiring to protect and preserve this
resource, so we might as well just help each
Few things inspire as much spirited discussion other be successful!
as spraying for curly leaf pondweed (CLP) on our
lake, which is why we committed at our visioning I’ll wait here for a minute while you go get a
session last year to keep you posted. So I’m pencil and the calendar you use. (Cue “jeopardy
going to give you some FACTS that you can music”) Oh...hi! Back already? Okay, now open
know, in order that the many ridiculous rumors the calendar to May and write this in on
that are floating around can be squashed. We’ll Saturday the 23rd “BIG SAUK LAKE ASSOCIA-
assume the lake area is 2,125 acres. Some places TION - ANNUAL MEETING.” There! Now you
say a few more, some a few less, but for discus- have the date saved and we can count on you to
sion lets use that number. In 2018 we sprayed attend, right? Great. Details will be forthcoming
0 acres, in 2019 we sprayed 12 acres, and in 2020 both on Facebook and our website...and we’ll also
it will be less than 5 acres. As a percent of lake have everything in our Spring newsletter which
area that would be 0% in 2018, 0.565% (less than comes out in May.
1%) in 2019, and less than 0.235% in 2020.
Please see map on bottom of page 6. We spray Here’s a quick reminder that we still have a
very targeted areas, specifically for CLP, and couple of the custom Big Sauk Lake cribbage
NOT the native weeds - despite the malicious boards available for $50 each. Inquire by email
rumors. We do an extensive survey each year, to bigsauk@gmail.com.
which is always posted on our website, in order
to determine the areas of concentration. We then As always, thanks for your membership and
go through a process of approvals and permits to support of Big Sauk Lake Association, and we
arrive at how much if any of an area will actually hope to see you on the water.
be treated.
scientific legacy, publish his results. hence, we now use a disk named after him '
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