Lake Winona Improvement Association

As some of you may know, last year the DOT proposed to replace the Mosquite Bridge (the small bridge on Waukewan Road that passes over Lake Waukewan near the Snake River marsh) with a wider, longer bridge in order to accommodate more traffic that would like to bypass Meredith. It would involve taking some property, and unknown environmental impact on the snake river outlet, as well as irreversible impact to the rural route that Waukewan Road offers to those who…

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House Bill (HB) 1589 – the ‘Clean and Drain’ bill designed to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive plants and animals – was passed had been passed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Following additional advocacy work from NH LAKES the Senate subcommittee and then full Senate voted unanimously to pass the bill. It is now moving to the Governor to be signed into law and made effective January 1, 2017. This new law will require all boaters to…

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The voice of a loon is one of the most haunting sounds in nature, but an iconic sound on Lake Winona. There’s nothing like a summer afternoon in a kayak just watching loons being loons. Over the last few years, however, our loon couple has not generated offspring. Nesting loons face a variety of challenges during their 27-day incubation of eggs. Loon nests are vulnerable to human disturbances, predators, and water level changes that can flood nests or leave them…

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The article, “What is the Geographical Center of New Hampshire?”, was originally published by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. of the The Weirs Times on Feb. 25, 2016. If you search for information on the geographical center of the State of New Hampshire you are apt to find the same statement that pupils in a rural Lakes Region school were given in the year 1923. It is “three miles east of Ashland.” Or the source may say, “three miles east of…

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The LWIA has been awarded a $1,000 payroll grant from the NH Lakes Association for Lake Winona’s 2016 Lake Host Program. Last year, thanks to the efforts of paid and volunteer Lake Hosts, 166 complimentary boat and water craft inspections were conducted at Lake Winona’s boat launch. Statewide, the NH Lake Host program conducted a total of 91,670 courtesy boat inspections and 46 ‘saves’ of aquatic invasive species were made by 786 Lake Hosts staffing 100 boat ramps! For Lake…

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This year’s unusually mild winter resulted in Lake Winnipeasake having its earliest recorded ice-out on March 18, 2016, beating out the previous records of March 23, 2012 and March 24, 2010. The latest ice out on the big lake occurred in 1888 on May 12. In fact, the NH Lakes Association reported that most of New Hampshire’s 1,000 lakes and ponds experienced their earliest recorded ice-out this year. On March 18, Winona still had plenty of ice. A few unusually warm…

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The Lakes Region Conservation Trust (LRCT) announced plans to complete the purchase of the Fogg Hill Conservation Area Expansion (Bascom property) at the end of this month! This project will add 43 acres to the Conservation Area including 1,250 feet of shoreline on Bear Pond and a perfect trailhead parking area for hikers along Piper Hill Road. This beautiful Conservation Area is part of a large block of nearly 1,000 acres that is the largest roadless area in Center Harbor…

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For those of you who have already closed up your camps, or won’t be up until later this month. Here are a few photos to remind you of how beautiful the lake is this time of year.

The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is hosting an free open house (rain or shine) on Saturday, October 10, 2015 to celebrate 60 years of research and discovery. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area of land in the towns of Woodstock and Thornton in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that functions as an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies. It was initially established in 1955 by the United States Forest Service for the study of the relationship between forest cover and water…

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Published in NH DES’s August The Sampler Newsletter By: Amy Smagula, NHDES Exotic Species Program Coordinator Aquatic plants are a common sight in New Hampshire’s waterbodies, and many lake residents, as well as visitors to New Hampshire’s numerous waterbodies, may question the importance and role of aquatic vegetation. Each waterbody may vary in terms of the number, type and distribution of aquatic plants it supports. Over long periods of time, both diversity and distribution of those species can be expected…

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