The second annual Northern Indiana Lakes Festival will take place on June 26 at Center Lake in Warsaw from 11am – 5pm. This great family-friendly event is FREE and includes a ski show by Lake City Skiers, exhibits and booths by water-related businesses and non-profit organizations, canoe tours around Center Lake, interactive song & dance performances for children, a water splash & play area, delicious food, fishing, door prizes, and more!

The purpose of the Northern Indiana Lakes Festival is to foster an understanding and love for our lakes and streams among the community by giving people a chance to celebrate them together, to learn about how they work and how they impact our lives.

The Northern Indiana Lakes Festival is presented by Kosciusko Lakes and Streams (KLAS) and the Tippecanoe Watershed Foundation (TWF) in partnership with the Kosciusko County Soil & Water Conservation District, Warsaw Community Development Corporation, Warsaw Community Public Library, City of Warsaw, and the Warsaw Parks & Recreation Department. Lakes Visionary-level sponsors include Indiana-American Water and the Northern Indiana Lakes Magazine.

For more information check out www.NorthernIndianaLakesFestival.org or contact Nate Bosch with KLAS at (574) 372-5100 x6447.

Indiana American Water announced that it is awarding a $3,500 grant to Kosciusko Lakes and Streams as part of the company’s 2010 Environmental Grant Program. Kosciusko Lakes and Streams will use the funds to support the organization’s efforts at the 2010 Northern Indiana Lakes Festival in Warsaw on June 26.

Established in 2005, the company’s Environmental Grant Program offers funds for innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect the watersheds, surface water and/or groundwater supplies in the communities it serves.

Thanks again Indiana American Water for partnering with us and our other planning partners for the Northern Indiana Lakes Festival!

Join the IUPUI Center for Earth and Environmental Science and Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC. For a One Day Free Symposium. The symposium will be from 8 AM to 5 PM on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at Rathskeller Restaurant in the Grand Kellersaal Ballroom in Indianapolis, IN. There will be an evening reception to follow.

The general session presentations will offer a comprehensive overview of blue-green algal bloom issues, including environmental factors, innovative research, policy implications, and outreach solutions. The Symposium will conclude with a panel session discussion.

Lyn Crighton from the Tippecanoe Watershed Foundation will be presenting and Nate Bosch from Kosciusko Lakes and Streams will be attending – will you join us to learn more about this important emerging concern in our local lakes?  Visit www.cees.iupui.edu to learn more and to register by June 3, 2010.

.Kosciusko Lakes and Streams is in the process of updating our community calendar on our website and would like to hear about your water-related meetings and events to include them in the calendar. Just send an email with the following information to KLASinfo@grace.edu: Meeting/event title, when it is being held, where it is being held (please include address), a brief description of the meeting/event, and a contact person for more information (optional).

As part of their conference in March, the Indiana Lakes Management Society concluded their first annual photo contest. Photographs by George Hardie, Sara Peel, Toby Stone, Markie Edwards, and Carrie Sheets were the top vote getters. We have included the top two pictures from the contest in this newsletter. Have photos you’ve taken of your lake? Submit them to the 2010 photo contest – details will be announced soon.

Press release provided by Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

NORTH WEBSTER–To meet the production goals of Indiana’s statewide muskie stocking program, DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife biologists collected nearly 1.5 million eggs this spring from adult female muskies at Webster Lake. The eggs were taken from 35 female muskies and fertilized with milt from male muskies, both of which were captured in large trap nets set at six locations between March 30 and April 6 in the 774-acre Kosciusko County lake. During the eight-day period, biologists netted 128 muskies, including 74 males and 19 additional immature or “spent” females that had already released their eggs. “We set a record this year for the fewest number of days needed for egg-taking,” said Dave Clary, manager of the Fawn River State Fish Hatchery in Orland. “It usually takes 10 to 15 days.”

“The weather probably had a lot to due with our quick success this spring,” Clary said. According to Clary, weather changes and variable water temperatures can cause fluctuations and delays in muskie egg development. Of the nearly 1.5 million eggs obtained this year, more than half (44) were taken on April 3. The largest female muskie captured was 46.5 inches long. Biologists extracted and fertilized more than 600,000 eggs, which also broke the record for a single day egg-take. Once the muskie eggs were fertilized, Clary transported them to the Fawn River Hatchery where they were placed in hatching jars. Just before hatching, the eggs were shipped to East Fork State Fish Hatchery in southwest Indiana, where the newly hatched muskie fry will be fed tiny pellets similar to food for aquarium fish. “The young muskies will be raised throughout the summer at East Fork Hatchery, fed live minnows for 30 days in the fall, and then stocked in various public lakes throughout the state,” Clary said. “They are normally 8 to 10 inches long by the time they are stocked.”

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