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The Iowa Great Lakes Association is committed to the Lakes area and its watershed. We promote environmental improvements and are an active influence in promotion for environmental health and quality-of-life in the Iowa Great Lakes.

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Arnolds Park Amusement Park opens

May 20, 2013
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Arnolds Park Amusement Park opened on Friday night, May 17, for several hours! The Park was packed with people ready for summer to begin! Plus, the Legend Roller Coaster is new and improved and lots of people waited to ride on it. The Amusement Park is open this weekend and then opens Memorial Weekend on…

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Okoboji Launch Event held in Omaha

May 9, 2013
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Launch Okoboji 2013 – party in Omaha to celebrate the beginning of the 2013 season. Party given by Denny and Diana Walker at the Jet Linx airplane hangar. Over 150 Omaha lake owners attended. Kazarellis catered the event with KUOO live streaming music. Goodie bags…

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31st Annual Great Walleye Weekend

May 6, 2013
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Fishermen from all over the Midwest came to the Iowa Great Lakes this weekend to try and get a valuable tagged fish! See the full album on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.520896031308220.1073741826.285576484840177&type=1&l=34d5b02b7b

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Presence of Zebra Mussels to impact gillnetting operations

April 12, 2013
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EXPLORE OKOBOJI – APRIL 11,2013 The discovery of zebra mussels in some of the Iowa Great Lakes is changing how the Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducts its annual gillnetting…

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Electric Fish Barrier Ready to Protect Iowa Great Lakes

March 1, 2013
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Posted: 02/26/2013 SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa – The electric fish barrier that will keep Asian carp from entering the Iowa Great Lakes through the Lower Gar Lake outlet is in place…

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Proposal to cut lake funding

February 19, 2013
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By Brandon Barb, Spencer Daily Reporter Staff – THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 2013 Funding for Iowa lakes projects could be cut drastically in the 2014 fiscal year if Gov. Terry Branstad’s budget proposal…

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