News & Archives
2023 - 2024 News Items
Feb 12, 2024 - This is a comprehensive Steep Rock Project Update by Jeff Bonnema MNRF Project Coordinator. Presentation
was made to the Citizens Advisory Group of the Int’l Rainy-LOW Watershed Board on Feb 12, 2024.242
Feb 23, 2024 - A comprehensive description of wolf fishing behavior in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem
- This paper describes Lake Sturgeon Research that RLC supported at Lakehead University . Co-authors are RLC members.
- These recently published papers describe Wolf research in Voyageurs National Park. RLC supported the work:
- Evidence that wolves use cooperative ambush strategies to hunt beavers.
Author Thomas Gable
2023 Watershed Forum Proceedings Report - Get Your Copy!
The Proceedings Report of the 2023 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum is available for download at the Foundation’s website:
https://www.lowwsf.com/forum-proceedings. A spirit of joyful reunion marked the 2023 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum as we celebrated the event’s 20th anniversary and welcomed the return to an in-person symposium after two years of online delivery. Once again, Minnesota North College – Rainy River, in International Falls, Minnesota was the venue for researchers, resource managers, policy makers and members of the public for the two-day symposium March 8-9.
2023 Flood Update
An International Joint Commission(IJC) public report will be available by Spring covering implications and recommendations for future water level management . A Powerpoint presentation overview of the historic flood event prepared by the local International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board can be viewed via the following links – IJC 2022 Post Flood Report & IJC Summary of 2022 Post Flood Report