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Put a plan in Place.  Ensure there's enough science and management expertise.  Unite and coordinate actions binationally—communities, researchers, policy makers.

A Sustainability Plan

Put a plan in place — A sustainability plan for the Rainy-Lake of the Woods Basin.  A plan with internationally-agreed objectives, targets and actions needed.  An international framework to oversee the plan. 

Sounds reasonable, right?  We been working towards this goal and many of the pieces are now in place.

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Supporting Research Partnerships

We're working to ensure that there is enough science and management expertise and resources focused on the Rainy-Lake of the Woods Basin, now and for the future.

We need to continue to stimulate research and management program building and capacity internationally.  We build and support strategic research and management partnerships among governments and indigenous peoples, non-govermental organizations, private sector entities and individuals.

Examples of these partnership include:

  • The establishment of the International Multi-Agency Arrangement (ongoing)
  • The Historical Nutrient Budget and Lake Thermal Modeling Study (ongoing)
  • The Lake trout Strategic Project — Predicting dissolved oxygen concentrations in Lake Trout lakes: Developing new tools for a multiple-stressor world (ongoing)
  • The 2014 Rainy-Lake of the Woods State of the Basin Report ( pdf Full version (11.32 MB) )  ( pdf Overview version (1.92 MB) )
  • The 2010 Preliminary Phosphorus Budgets and Water Quality Models for the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River ( pdf Overview version (3.38 MB) )
  • The 2009 Rainy-Lake of the Woods State of the Basin Report ( pdf Standard resolution (8.94 MB) )

Watershed Forum

Since 2004, the annual International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum has been a strategic incubator for cross-border research, management collaboration, networking and communication.

The Foundation leads a partnership of agencies to organize the Forum each year.  Attended each year by upwards of 160 research and resource managers, the Forum is the "hub" for all groups working to ensure the future ecological integrity of the waters of the Rainy-Lake of the Woods Basin.

  folder Forum Proceedings Archives

International Coordination

Unite and coordinate actions binationally — Imagine there are no borders. Erase the borders and have one lake, one watershed, shared management.

This is what the Foundation and its international partners have achieved on Lake of the Woods. We have built a platform for the future, to work together on joint research, management and protection of Lake of the Woods throught the International Joint Commission, the International Multi-Agency Arrangement and our International Watershed Coordinator.

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November 9, 2023

Watershed Forum Info and Abstract Deadline Reminder

International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum
March 6–7, 2024, Minnesota North College - Rainy River campus, International Falls, MN.

Abstract deadline: December 15, 2023  see: Abstract Submission

Where to stay:  AmericInn, International Falls. Group rate: $98 USD per night plus tax (reserve by February 24).  For researvation details see: Where to Stay

Registration:  Registration opesn January 4, 2024.  Registration details, including cost will be available later this fall.

More Info? At the Foundation's website:  www.lowwsf.com/watershed-forum 

November 9, 2023

Call for Nominations: 2024 Kallemeyn Award and 2024 Wilson Stewardship Award

 Nominations are now open for the:

  • 2024 Kallemeyn Award recognizing professional achievement in research or resource management
  • 2024 Wilson Stewardship Award, recognizing environmental stewardship

Nominations for both awards close December 15, 2023 - please get your nominations in early! Award presentation will be at the 2024 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum, March 6–7, in International Falls, MN

October 11, 2023

2023 Lake of the Woods Fall Algae Bloom Most Severe Since the Early 2000s

The view from space is compelling and confirms what we have seen firsthand on Lake of the Woods at the end of September. The cyanobacterial bloom (aka blue-green algae) on Lake of the Woods is tracking towards being one of the most severe since 2002.

By late September, a massive bloom extended across 2,800 km2 or 73% of the lake’s surface.  The bloom was extremely intense with satellite-derived measures of chlorophyll-a concentrations exceeding 60 µg/L over most of the southern and middle basins of the lake.

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