Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates Blog

Minnesota Seasonal Recreational Property Owners Coalition, MSRPO Executive Director Jeff Forester announced today that MSRPO will be called Minnesota Lakes and River Advocates to reflect the broader constituency, purpose and mission it now serves.

MSRPO can offer a solution so that our member organizations have minimum disruption to Lake Association or COLA operations during this difficult time of transition. MSRPO is the only statewide organization whose sole focus is lake issues. We are working to make sure that lake associations get the support they need and lake issues continue to advance.

On May 3, 2012 at about 5:00 PM Governor Mark Dayton signed HF 2164,  into law, advancing protection of Minnesota's lakes and rivers from aquatic invasive species (AIS) like zebra mussels and Asian carp.

The Legislature recessed for Easter/Passover break on April 5th and will reconvene Monday April 16th. We expect that they will move quickly to wrap up. Legislative leadership hopes to finish all their work by the end of April.

Two of our issues are still in process, Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) and Taxes.