Join us on July 16 at Cinder beach Day-Use Area to celebrate sockeye salmon reintroduction to the upper Deschutes River Basin and Suttle Lake, meet with US Forest Service personnel and other OLA members. Join an open-lake swim, check out on-going monitoring at Suttle Lake and enjoy the scenery. 

Reserve Friday, Oct 14 and Saturday, Oct 15 for our joint conference with the Nez Perce Tribe. One day will be dedicated to celebrating sockeye salmon reintroduction and other issues focused on the Wallowa region.

We will have the run of the lovely Wallowa Lake Lodge: please consider the Lodge and/or its cabins for accommodation. We’ll also make remote attendance via Zoom available. Look for our Call for Abstracts for presentations to fill the second day of our conference as well as registration information.

Our 2022 OLA Graduate Scholarship Recipient is Kathryn Queen. Kathryn (Katey) is an MS student at the Institute of Watershed Studies at Western Washington University working under the supervision of Prof. Angela Strecker. She is interested in high montane lakes, which are important features scattered across the Cascade Range. 

Learn more about Katey...

OUR MISSION

OLAs Mission is to promote the understanding, protection, and thoughtful management of lakes and watersheds in Oregon. To fulfill this mission, OLA holds lakes conferences and workshops, publishes the Lake Wise newsletter, advocates for lakes in the legislative arena, and offers graduate student scholarships. 

OLA strives to be a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all members, students, event participants and community partners. We encourage participation by all regardless of age, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, color, race, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. OLA recognizes a diversity of perspectives is important to tackle the complex issues facing Oregon’s lakes and watersheds.

Join OLA to contribute your voice for quiet waters.

In this issue:

• Lake Appreciation Month celebration at Suttle Lake, July 16
  
• Fall 2022 OLA Conference Announcement: October 14/15 at Wallowa Lake 
• 2022 OLA Scholarship recipient: Kathryn Queen 
• Lake Abert Conservation
  ➢ Recent attention in the media and state government
  ➢ Discussions between conservationists and Chewaucan locals
• CyanoHABs Corner
  ➢ New microcystin toxicity data from mouse oral dosing
  ➢ New research on cyanotoxins and their Dolichospermum producers in Detroit Reservoir and other Oregon lakes
• Oregon Lakes in the News ➢ Waldo Lake history 
• New OLA 2-page statement on Lake Abert status and conservation goals

• Members Only Newsletter Archives
• Advertise in Lake Wise
• Projects and Policy Statements - NEW items added 2/22/2022

RECENT EVENTS

2021 Fall Conference Series

The Oregon Lakes Association held our Annual Lakes Conference as a series of online, Wednesday afternoon sessions this fall.  Three sessions were included:

• CyanoHAB modeling and monitoring. Wednesday, November 3rd from 2:30-5 pm
• Lake physiology and management and OLA Business Meeting. Wednesday, November 10th from 2:30-5 pm
• Our beautiful lakes: past and present. Wednesday, December 1st from 3-5 pm

Presentations covered a wide range of topics including desert lakes, climate change, paleolimnology, remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms, water quality modeling, and lake management (Agenda and Abstracts).

Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon (Ron Larson photo). Visit our Projects page to find out how OLA is advocating for Lake Abert and other waterbodies in Oregon