I had the opportunity to testify yesterday in front of the Natural Resource Finance Committee on behalf of a bill Connie Bernardy is sponsoring to request $1,000,000 of grant money support to lake associations to support our fight against AIS. If this comes to fruition, it will certainly help support our milfoil management plan and whatever else may come our way.

Jeff Forester from Minnesota Lakes and Rivers also joined us to provide his perspective of why this should be approved by the committee.

Big thanks to Connie for sponsoring this and hopefully we have some good news to share as this is reviewed by our legislators.  

Just want you all to know we're working to maximize the effectiveness of your annual contributions to LLIA through utilization of grant programs.  In this case, even helping to get the grant created!

Watch the testimony by clicking HERE.