For many years the MN DNR made about $800,000 in grants to lake associations to help them manage aquatic invasive species (AIS). But in 2016 they cut the grants in half, to $400,000. The next year they ended them altogether.

SF 1062, authored by Senator Rich Draheim, and joined by Senators Rudd, Ingebrigtsen, Jensen, and Eichorn would, if passed into law, provide $1 million of General Fund money in 2020 and 2021 for matching grants to lake associations for controlling aquatic invasive species. No more than 10% of the funding may go to a single lake association.  This is nothing within the $49 Billion dollar budget proposed.  

Please click TAKE ACTION to send our Senator an email asking them to support this legislation.  While AIS is a statewide problem, for too long the costs have been the burden of lake associations such as ours.  LLIA deserves support in the work we do to protect Long Lake for the public good of a healthy ecosystem.