Maine Lakes and Lake Stewards of Maine collaborated for another series of webinars in the Winter and Spring of 2025. This year’s webinar series covers a variety of topics that should interest anyone with a passion for lake protection. Click here to see 2025 recordings. 

Maine’s lakes are just as iconic as our rocky coastline. But lakes don’t just provide outstanding recreational experiences – they provide essential wildlife habitat and clean drinking water for thousands. Colin Durrant from the Natural Recources Council of Maine talks with Susan Gallo, the executive director of Maine Lakes, to learn more about lakes and ponds in Maine, what makes them so special, why we can’t ignore the risks facing them, and what we can do about it. Click here to listen to the podcast, Preserving the Value and Benefits of Maine's Lakes and Ponds.

Registration is open for the 2025 Lake conference

The annual lakes conference theme Lakes at the Edge can be interpreted many ways. Many of our lakes are on the edge of rapidly deteriorating health. They are at the tipping point where just a little more phosphorus in the water will tip them toward recurring algal blooms. Many are at the edge of the carrying capacity for development in their watersheds, where runoff from poorly managed roads, roofs and driveways may push their health to, or over, the edge. And of course much of lake conservation work takes place at the literal lake edge. What can we do in the shoreland zone and surrounding uplands f our lakes that keeps them healthy?

2025 Lake Conference
University of Maine Farmington
June 13, 2025
8:00 am - 4:30pm

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