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Prairie Lakes Conference Will Take On A Different Look This Year

July 24, 2023 Steve Schwaller

(Wahpeton)– Registration is underway for the Prairie Lakes Conference, which will be held August 9th-11th in the Iowa Great Lakes. Dr. Mary Skopec, Executive Director with Iowa Lakeside Laboratory says this year’s conference will be on the go…

“This year’s conference will be a little bit different. It’s a moving conference so we will start on the evening of August 9th at John Boettcher’s farm, and John and Emily will talk about their conservation practices on their farm and there will be a dinner that night and then the next morning on August 10th we kick off at Mini Wakan shelter. We will do a tour, a riding tour starting up at Loon Lake in Minnesota looking at conservation practices there, and then we’ll come down and we’ll go around Big Spirit Lake and look at a number of different things that the DNR and private landowners are doing to protect the lakes.”

She adds the public is invited to attend…

“They can go to plc.org, Prairie Lakes Conference-dot-org, and I’ll have it linked from Iowa Lakeside Lab-dot-org website as well, and people can register. $100 for the entire three days of conference, and I think it’s going to be really fun, informative and a different view of the lakes that maybe people haven’t seen before.”

The conference leads up to the Okoboji Blue Water Festival slated for August 12th at Preservation Plaza in Arnolds Park.

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