BLACK LAKE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

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Black Lake Preservation Society

2025 Outlook

Our Guiding Principles are:

the right time to preserve and protect a lake is when it is healthy because there are few practical ways to restore a lake once it is impaired,
to maximize our impact, we cannot repeat, recreate, or replace what other groups have done. There are over 1,000 lakes of 100 acres or more in Michigan and similar numbers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. There are solutions out there that can be leveraged toward our needs
you cannot "outsource" your responsibility to protect the lake by simply writing a check to a group that takes responsibility for the lake's health. The vast majority of land around our lake is private property and all property ownerns must care enough to listen, learn, engage and adapt if our goals are to be met.

Lake Water Quality Learnings

Click the box below to view the presentation summarizing our water quality findings through our work with Kieser & Associates.

Who We Are

Our sole MISSION is to protect and preserve the ecology of Black Lake, its tributaries and watershed through advocacy and program development; we don't aim to replicate or compete with the recreational or economic development interests of other organizations.

Let's Keep Black Lake Natural!

BLPS Strategy Overview:

Click the box below to view a summary of the BLPS Strategy and outlook.

Our 2025 Focus is Water Quality

Many of the issues of interest to Black Lake stakeholders have their root in sources of nutrients: Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), weed expansion, zebra mussel population changes, changes to the sandy lake bottom, and water clarity. Excess nutrients can accelerate the aging of a lake in all of these ways, but it was our experience with HABs that lead us to take determined action; 1) urging the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council to apply for a Watershed Management Plan on our behalf, and 2 hiring a professional environmental consultant - Kieser & Associates (K&A).

Click on the box to the left to view a summary of K&A findings to date in the words of Mark Kieser himself!

Join the conversation on our Facebook page or email us with your ideas and interests. Click on the icon below to go to the Black Lake Preservation Society group page in Facebook.

BLPS Facebook Group

2024 BLPS Annual Progress Report

Scroll through or download the document below for a more detailed look at the activities of the BLPS in 2024.

How to Use Our BLPS Member Tools

This website and our Facebook page are for sharing our conservation oriented goals, plans, experiences, learnings, and ideas and we invite you and your like-minded or curious neighbors to join the conversation and be part of something positive. Please bookmark our website and follow our Facebook this page. Also, consider supporting us by joining/renewing your membership here at the Membership page or volunteer your time here at the Contacts page. Our impact is only limited by our collective people, time, and money.

WEBINAR ARCHIVE

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