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​The FREE newsletter for people interested in Wisconsin's lakes 

 
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​​​Current Issue: Volume 50 No. 3 Fall/Winter 2025​​

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Do you have an idea for an article you think our reader​s would be interested in? Submit an article/idea to be considered for a future issue of Lake Tides! Read our guidelines​ and contact the editor at amy.kowalski@uwsp.edu or 715-346-4744.

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​We encourage you to use any past Lake Tides articles for educational purposes (commercial use prohibited). Please credit the source by inserting the line "reprinted from Lake Tides" and include the volume and number as well as any listed authors. Peruse our searchable directory of articles below (please be patient as it may take some​​​ time to load).​​​​

Two Ways You Can Help Keep Lake Tides Afloat:

1) Endowment Fund - For lasting ipmact
Our endowment fund was created to provide long-term support for Lake Tides, including undergraduate fellowships, graduate assistantships, newsletter production, and other essential needs. ​
If you would like to make a lasting contribution, please go to https://give.uwsp.edu/g/wisconsin-lakes​

To read more about this endowment, read our article, Can We Fly this Balloon...Forever?​

 

2) Gift Account - For immediate support
The Lake Tides gift account helps cover current expenses, such as rising postage and printing costs, so we can continue to publish and distribute the newsletter without interruption. If you'd like to help with immediate newsltter expenses, please send a check made out to Extension Lakes with "Lake Tides gift" in the memo line to:
Extension Lakes
College of Natural Resources, UWSP
800 Reserve Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481

Your support helps ensure your Lake Tides newsletter remains a trusted source for lake and watershed news. Thank you for hleping keep this resource strong!


Lake Ripples

​Timely updates about Wisconsin's lakes​ (bi-monthly)


Due to the cost of printing and mailing our long-running, free Lake Tides newsletter (50 years this year!), we will have to decrease publishing to only three issues annually. We still want to connect you with important resources and stories related to our state's precious lakes. Enter, Lake Ripples, your eNews source for timely updates about Wisconsin's lakes! If you know of others who would like this publication, please have them subscribe now - it's FREE! 

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