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10 Tips for Improved Lakeshore Stewardship from US EPA

• RIDEM to provide training to volunteers to help boaters inspect their vessels in order to prevent the spread of invasive species (click here for information, click here for a flyer to share).
• RIDEM accepting grant applications for projects to control invasive plants in RI lakes and pond (click here for info).
• GoLocal Providence highlights Rhode Island's Most Polluted Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs - Is your favorite among them?
  (Learn more)
• Check out our new webpage on managing geese in your community (click here or from the menu to the left).
• Save The Lakes to receive citation from the RI State Senate - Tuesday, June 25th (2013)
• Save The Lakes pilots a Boater Education/Inspection Program to help raise awareness of aquatic invasive plants (October 2011) - click here to learn more
• Save The Lakes on TV - click here to view
• Senator honors Save The Lakes (6/10/09)
• Save The Lakes joins Facebook - Become a Fan!!
• Landscaping at the Water’s Edge: An Ecological Approach A Manual for NH Landowners and Landscapers Now Available - click here for more info and link to order form.

Articles and other information

• Goslings are cute - but feeding them (or their parents) not only leads to problems for your lake and lawn, but it illegal in RI
  (Click here for 5 Reasons Why Feeding Waterfowl is Harmful).
• Learn how you can manage your stormwater to keep YOUR lake off that list (Rhode Island Stormwater Solutions)
• Is your green lake making you blue? Learn more about harmful algal blooms (cyanobacteria) from the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) or URI Watershed Watch's links to many cyanobacteria resources (URIWW).
• Lake-friendly Gardening - Lawns (UVM Cooperative Extension)
• Leaf Raking and Lakes (Flier adapted from the Candlewood Lake Authority)
• Save The Lakes goes to war for state's freshwater resources (Providence Journal article - 7/19/08)
• What's in the Pond? A look at freshwater plants and their management (Course materials from URI Watershed Watch and RI Natural History Survey sponsored course)
  

For More Information Contact:

Save the Lakes * 61 Wood Road * Chepachet, RI,  02814 * Tel: (401) 568-4267 * Internet: info@stlri.org

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