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2023 - 2024 News Items

Feb 12, 2024 -         This is a comprehensive Steep Rock Project Update by Jeff Bonnema MNRF Project Coordinator. Presentation

was made to the Citizens Advisory Group of the Int’l Rainy-LOW Watershed Board on Feb 12, 2024.242

Feb 23, 2024 -        A comprehensive description of wolf fishing behavior in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem

• This paper describes Lake Sturgeon Research that RLC supported at Lakehead University . Co-authors are RLC members.
• These recently published papers describe Wolf research in Voyageurs National Park. RLC supported the work:

- Evidence that wolves use cooperative ambush strategies to hunt beavers.

- Differential provisioning roles, prey size, and prey abundance shape the dynamic feeding behavior of gray wolves.

   Author Thomas Gable

2023 Watershed Forum Proceedings Report - Get Your Copy!

The Proceedings Report of the 2023 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum is available for download at the Foundation’s website: 

https://www.lowwsf.com/forum-proceedings. A spirit of joyful reunion marked the 2023 International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum as we celebrated the event’s 20th anniversary and welcomed the return to an in-person symposium after two years of online delivery. Once again, Minnesota North College – Rainy River, in International Falls, Minnesota was the venue for researchers, resource managers, policy makers and members of the public for the two-day symposium March 8-9. 

2023 Flood Update

An International Joint Commission(IJC) public report will be available by Spring covering implications and recommendations for future water level management . A Powerpoint presentation overview of the historic flood event prepared by the local International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board can be viewed via the following links – IJC 2022 Post Flood Report & IJC Summary of 2022 Post Flood Report

2023 Rainy River Basin Flood Information

Click Rainy River Basin to see flood information.