COVID-19 can’t stop everything, including learning new things about our lakes.
Legacy of the Lakes Museum and the Douglas County Lakes Association will present “Water Talks,” a virtual speaker series devoted to stewardship of lakes.
On the second Tuesday of every month this summer at 7 p.m., a water expert will give a Zoom presentation on topics ranging from caring for the shoreline to local lake history.
The series kicks off Monday, June 8, with John Linc Stine, executive director at Freshwater – a public nonprofit organization that strives to preserve freshwater resources and their surrounding watersheds. He will present “Like Politics, All Water is Local.”
Here’s a description of his talk: We say it all the time “our lake…”, “my stretch of shoreline…” or “our aquifer.” There’s an obvious reason we talk about water in this way. We will always understand water quality and care for it based on what we see and do every day. Not surprisingly, protecting and restoring water can only happen when people see it as their civic responsibility, kind of like voting for elections.
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Linc Stine will describe how water is protected or polluted in and around Alexandria, Douglas County and the neighboring area and encourage participants to take local action for water stewardship.
Linc Stine joined Freshwater in March 2019, following a 40-year public service career where he started as a student worker in 1978 at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and worked for 25 years. He moved to the Minnesota Department of Health in 2005 and joined the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in 2011, retiring in January 2019 as the longest serving MPCA commissioner.
A self-proclaimed “water governance guru,” he’s enforced virtually every water management law and regulation for Minnesota’s lakes, rivers, wetlands, watersheds and groundwater. At Freshwater, John is focused on inspiring present and future generation’s efforts to protect, conserve and steward freshwater.
“Water Talks” is free to the public, but advance registration is required. More information and registration can be found at legacyofthelakes.org/water-talks/.
Other upcoming virtual presentations include: July 13 – “Cabin and Lake Home Shoreline Management,” Aug. 10 – “Our Magnificent Lake History” and Sept. 14 – to be determined.
