Long Lake protection tour scheduled
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:38 PM CDT
Special to the Herald - If you have a home or cottage on Long Lake or another lake near by, help protect your lake’s water quality and fish and wildlife habitat by providing a good buffer of trees, shrubs, flowering plants and groundcover along the shoreline.
Rain gardens are another way to help preserve water quality by slowing surface runoff to the lake. These are the new trend in stopping water runoff from roofs, driveways, patios, and other hard surfaces. Runoff can carry excess nutrients, soil, and pollutants from the land to the lake and affect water quality and bank stability.
Lakeshore property owners can learn more about shoreland protection options such as rain gardens and shoreland buffers.
A shoreland buffer and rain garden demonstration site tour is planned from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 25 at Morris-Erickson County Park, State Hwy 40, Long Lake.
Spend the morning visiting the four demonstration sites around Long Lake by pontoon boat. Find out what a shoreland buffer and rain garden look like, what it takes to establish each, and what native plants are and why we use them. It’s great way to get ideas for your own shoreline or native plant garden.
The event is free, but register to reserve a spot by contacting Amanda Kostner at ahilger7@yahoo.com or (715) 645-0316.
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