Clitherall Lake Association
Our Mission:
We are the custodians of Clitherall Lake.
We pledge to all who love this special place that
We will protect,
We will enhance the quality of our lake water,
Its environs and its fishery;
We will preserve the quality of our life here
for all generations yet to come,
forevermore.
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Latest News updated 10/11/24
Please Note! - The hazard markers have been removed for the season.
The minutes of the September CLA Board of Directors meeting and the Treasurer's Report are now published on the Meetings page.
The September and final AIS, ‘How Well Do You Know Minnesota?’ video has just been released. All 5 of the ‘How Well Do You Know Minnesota?’ videos can be viewed below.
How Well Do You Know MN? Part 5 - Waterfowl Hunters
How Well Do You Know Minnesota? Part 1- Don't Release.
How Well Do You Know MN? Part 2- AIS Early Detection.
How Well Do You Know Minnesota? Part 3 - Cleaning Stations
MPR reporter Kirsti Mahron aired a three part series on MPR Morning Edition exploring how suburban style development of Minnesota's lakeshore is impacting water quality and wildlife. The series also looks at solutions and actions shoreline owners can take to reverse these disturbing trends. Lake associations are a big part of the solution.
To launch this great series, MPR News Host Angela Davis had an hour long call in interview with MLR Executive Director, Jeff Forester and Lake Steward Committee Co-Chair for Gull Chain of Lakes Association Dorothy Whitmer about being a Lake Steward.
"According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, we’ve lost about half of the state’s natural shorelines. And researchers say natural shoreline continues to disappear at an alarming rate.
When we lose natural lakeshore, it affects the lakes we love. Mowed shorelines allow seven to nine times more pollutants to enter the lake than one with native plants."
MPR News Host Angela Davis and her guests explore what we can do to prevent shoreline erosion, improve water quality and create more habitat for wildlife.
Listen to the interview, Protecting Minnesota's vanishing natural shorelines
You can also read about and listen to MPR's entire 3 part series
Trouble by the water: Minnesota's vanishing natural lakeshores
Want to Learn How You Can Protect Your Shore?
Order the Shoreland Guide to Lake Stewardship Here
News from the 2024 Annual Meeting
Beth Franklin and Chris Dietz were elected, while Alan Storry and Steve Adams were re-elected to our Board of Directors at the annual membership meeting on July 13.
The minutes of the annual meeting can be found on the Meetings page.
Some lake association members had questions and concerns about swimmer's itch. Here is a link to a document from the Michigan Swimmer's Itch Partnership that provides a great deal of information about this issue. Thanks to Chris Dietz for providing this information.
A few hats remain after the Annual Meeting.
Facebook message Alan Storry or email us using the Contact Us page to order. $20 each.
Long-time Clitherall Lake property owner and CLA member Jeff Stabnow was recently awarded a "Lake Steward" sign from Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates for his shoreline restoration work.
The Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates Lake Steward Program provides the resources necessary to educate lakeshore homeowners on environmental sustainability through proper shoreline maintenance, and facilitates shoreline restoration projects with materials personalized for each region.
For more information on this program, go to their website.
Important information about membership renewal for 2024
We emailed membership forms to those members that had provided us email addresses, however, the way that we did it caused many mail systems to place it in the spam or junk folder, or worse yet, block it completely and may have added our email address to a blocked senders list.
If you did not receive any emails from us, please check your junk or spam email folders. Also, check your mail settings to see if ClitherallLakeAssociationMN@gmail.com is on your blocked senders list. If so, please remove it.
Another good way to make sure that you receive our emails (there will not be many) is to add our email address into your email contacts.
We apologize for the mistakes and promise that we are working to improve.
Forms have been sent to members that we do not have email addresses for via U.S. Mail.
The membership form is also available for download from our website.