As spring approaches, it’s time to give your boat some much needed TLC. After months of being idle in the offseason, boats need some basic maintenance to get them in top shape before they hit the waters. With a few simple steps and some attention to detail, you can ensure that your boat is ready…
If you were a fish in a lake, where would you like to live, hunt, and play? Anglers from ancient times until this day all over the world have been using any means possible to enter into a fish’s domain. Of course, in ancient times, fishing sated a basic human need, hunger. Today, the fishing…
The Land Between the Lakes is just what its name says it is. This land lies between Kentucky Lake on the west and Lake Barkley east on the in far western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee. The lakes run parallel to each other in a southwest to northeast line. The Land Between the Lakes is a National…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the Clean Water Act Rule, a new approach that impacts America’s waterways. This regulation establishes a baseline for all future clean water initiatives, ensuring that these bodies of water are given the same level of protection as those that are larger and more well-known. With these recent decisions,…
Hank the Tank, a 500-pound black bear committing home invasions in the Lake Tahoe region, has obviously proved that black bears in the area enter a state of topor, not hibernation, in the Lake Tahoe winters. Typically, black bears are smaller than brown bears and polar bears are much larger than black bears. However, Hank…
February 23, 2023, 12 p.m: The temperature in Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior is between 7° and 10° F. A mighty blizzard is about to hit Duluth with gale-force winds, blowing most residents to the stores for emergency supplies. Not everyone, though. Surfers were more excited about the size of the waves on the shores…
Geneva Lake and the town of Lake Geneva in Wisconsin lie 100 miles southwest of Milwaukee and 30 miles west of Kenosha on Lake Michigan. Large segments of Geneva Lake freeze over in the winter, and sometimes ice covers Geneva Lake entirely. Ice Castles, the name of the company that creates the Lake Geneva Ice…
When people worldwide think of Nevada, they typically think of Las Vegas. However, up north there is one of the most beautiful mountain lake experiences straddling the California/Nevada state line. Surrounding Lake Tahoe are hauntingly gorgeous forested mountains offering an entirely different and unique outdoor experience. Lake Tahoe itself provides wonderful opportunities for ideal vacations…
Approximately half of the freshwater lakes in the U.S. are man-made at 48%, and the other 52% are natural freshwater lakes. The most popular natural aspects of U.S. states are their lakes, which provide amazing views and vistas, habitats for abundant wildlife, electricity generation, transportation, water usage, and especially recreational opportunities. The largest group of…
When we think about what lives in lake, we usually conjure images of fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds. But some of the most important things that live in a lake are nutrients and microorganisms before we can have the above species. Lakes and ponds are scientifically named lentic systems. Without nutrients and microorganisms, we…