Volume LII | Issue 2
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CONTENTS 02
Letter from our WLAC Board President
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2022 Calendar of Events
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Clean Boats = Clean Water
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Nature Via Water
By Michael Hatch
Mill Pond: A Lasting Legacy By Lauren Macintyre
Classic Cottages of Walloon: Part Two By Lauren Macintyre By Russ Kittleson
Move Your Wake, Respect The Lake By Connor Dennis By Jac Talcott
Ways to Give Ellis Woods Expansion Project Over a Century on Walloon: The Wilhoit/Ice/Smith Family
Letter from our WLAC
BOARD PRESIDENT Dear Friends, Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. A cliché but also an understatement when describing the alignment of converging pressures we must overcome here at the WLAC. With property values ascending new heights, the quickening of generational succession, and of course the COVID demand and supply-chain inflation on all our minds, these macro forces are felt by many. Combining these forces plus the unique challenges that impact our small Up North community, makes it critical that we all work together and contribute our boldest solutions. This season, the WLAC Board of Trustees and staff are embarking on developing a long-range vision and intrepid 5-year strategic plan (2023 - 2028). Paramount to this process is a basic agreement of what we are all working for: protecting Walloon. Perhaps this is best illustrated by understanding a “worst-case scenario.” BEFORE
By Lauren Macintyre
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The Crooked Tree District Library: A Walloon Lake Treasure Member Thank You Recipes By Chef Eric Latcham
In Memoriam
ANNUAL MEETING Please join us for our first in-person Annual Meeting since 2019. We will be honoring a notable Wallooner with the Damschroder Award this year along with a special keynote presentation, Walloon: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
August 4th, 2022 at 4:00pm The Talcott in the Village
AFTER
The photos included are from a case study recently presented by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on advancing shoreline best practices on inland lakes. The first is an aerial photograph from 1938 of a small wetland area of Lake X (unnamed here so as not to shame anyone). Exhibited is a healthy, ecologically productive and undeveloped shoreline/wetland/lake interface. Seventy-six years later in 2014 (in one lifetime – let that sink in), you can see the lakefront development and overcrowding that has occurred on Lake X. Across the seven decades documented in these photos, 48% of this lake’s productive shoreline wetlands were destroyed, contributing to an ever-decreasing water quality. The cumulative impacts of harmful shoreline alterations, non-point source pollution, run-off from impermeable surfaces and overloading the environmental carrying capacity is a sure way to expedite the inevitable demise of a lake.
