By Baylee Bessingpas, Minnesota GreenCorps Member The Roosevelt and Lawrence Area Lakes Association (RALALA) is the National Loon Center’s featured Lake Association for the upcoming 2026 Loons & Lakes Festival! As the festival draws closer, we wanted to share more about this organization and highlight some of the work they
By Baylee Bessingpas, Minnesota GreenCorps Member For this week’s blog, we are featuring an interview with local shoreline restoration expert Laura Mendoza of Great Roots LLC! Great Roots LLC serves the greater Brainerd Lakes and Aitkin areas and primarily takes on restoration projects between the months of April and October.
By Baylee Bessingpas After a long and cold Minnesota winter, the season of growth and a return to life is finally in sight – spring has sprung! Before we know it, a close look at the worn browns of last season’s fallen leaves and dried up grasses may wield a
Memorial Day weekend and all the weekends that follow are busy times for lake country waters. We’d like to reshare the advice written by our 2022 Community Outreach Intern, Ava, on how we can all enjoy these beautiful waters while having a loon and lake friendly weekend. When taking your first step
By Ava Rohleder, Community Outreach Intern Putting my time interning at the National Loon Center into a few words is not easy. Throughout the summer, while explaining my role within the foundation to others, the most common response I received is “Wow, you are so lucky!” This is an understatement.
By Ava Rohleder, Community Outreach Intern, National Loon Center The National Loon Center received a call on June 21st from a caring Minnesotan in Walker, MN who found a Common Loon “resting” on a Leech Lake shoreline. After observing the bird for several hours, Chip Leer determined that something was
