Executive Director Letter By Josephine Roberts

CONTENTS

02 Executive Director Letter By Josephine Roberts

03 A Lifetime of Philanthropy Jim & Marge Ternes Make a Lasting Gift to Walloon By Lauren Macintyre

04 Mill Pond Protection Project By Connor Dennis

05 From the Shores of Killarney to the Shores of the Country Club By Lauren Macintyre

08 2020 Shoreline Survey Results

10 The Battle with Invasive SpeciesAround Walloon Lake By Jac Talcott

11 2021 Directory Corrections

13 More Than a Century on Walloon: The Remarkable Beadell Family By Lauren Macintyre

14 Nulsen-Balke-Hargrave Family By Lauren Macintyre

15 Paddling for a Cause

16 Junior Members’ Corner

16 New Staff Bio: Amy Klein, Director of Development & Communications

17 Walloon Lake & Swimmer’s Itch By Russ Kittleson

18 Walloon Hotels & Resorts Word Search Puzzle

18 Member Thank You

19 Recipes By Chef Eric Latcham

20 In Memoriam

Letter from the

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

AHHHH, IT’S SUMMER!

I want to start off by thanking everyone who reached out and commented on the new look and content of the recent Wallooner Newsletters. We are extremely fortunate to have such talented volunteer writers (ahem, Lauren Macintyre and Marianne Barry to name a few standouts) who are able to capture the rich history and passion around the lake. The cultural context and deep heritage of Walloon is so special and makes our work of land and water protection even more important.

I have a couple of notable happenings to report.

The first is the partnership MOU signing with North Central Michigan College (NCMC) that occurred on Tuesday, May 4th.

Hang with me while I go on a little tangent here...

In 2017, I attended a Land Trust Conference in Denver and the keynote speaker was NASA Astronaut Colonel Pam Melroy who had an amazing career going back and forth building the International Space Station. Colonel Melroy’s remarks were profound because she had a literal “10,000-foot view” of Earth. Her most eye-opening comments that have stuck with me, were around the future mission to Mars and how she was sure that this would happen in our lifetime. She relayed that conservation organizations big and small, like the WLAC, are responsible for cultivating the love of exploration in the young people today that will in the future carry out this very important mission.

Here at the WLAC, we protect the lands and waters that are a part of so many first experiences with the natural world. And if you think about it, the mission to Mars and the mission to protect a special little piece of the world like Walloon Lake isn’t all that different. At its core, they are both about using science to connect people to a place. And the views, both spectacular.

I imagine that partnerships like the one we officialized with NCMC this spring, really are just a small step that invests time, resources, and passion so that young people in our community have opportunities to be inspired by the outdoors through the exploration of Walloon’s beautiful and wild spaces.

Josephine Roberts, WLAC Executive Director, and Dr. David Finley, NCMC President, at the MOU signing.

A special thanks to Dr. Jack Postle, his wife Pat whose legacy gift will help fund this partnership, and to Dr. Al Damschroder who played such an integral role in putting the two organizations together.

On another note, contained in this Wallooner is more information on the Mill Pond land acquisition project and the results of the 2020 Shoreline Survey. Now more than ever has our land protection work been so important and so urgent. Our land protection efforts in the watershed are aimed to protect Walloon Lake from over development and for water quality. The extraordinary real estate market right now is working against us. We will need everyone’s help to ensure that critical conservation properties don’t get lost to development. If you are interested in stepping up to help support the acquisition of critical conservation properties let’s have a lakeside meeting this summer season.

All my best, Josephine