(Wahpeton)– Members of the Okoboji Protective Association today called on their president to go to the state to get something done about the size, numbers and speed of water craft on the Iowa Great Lakes.
The call-to-action was issued at the association’s annual meeting at Lakeside Lab.
O-P-A President John Synhorst says it’s been an issue for several years already…but it’s rapidly coming to a head. He says in the past there was some question on whether or not the issue fell under the association’s mission statement. But Synhorst told O-P-A members today he feels it does.
Synhorst says they’ll form a committee of representatives from all lakes area protective associations to draw up a recommendation to present to Department Of Natural Resources commissioners. Synhorst tells KUOO news he’ll be at the commission’s meeting August 9th in the Iowa Great Lakes. Synhorst says the recommendation won’t be ready by then, but he’ll tell commissioners about the efforts to come up with one. Synhorst says the goal is to have something put together D-N-R commissioners can present in the upcoming session of the Iowa Legislature.
