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 Mark your Calendars! The LMSA Annual meeting will take place 
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2024 - 9:00 AM Glenn Community Center 

Annual Meeting Speakers:
Lake Michigan Water Levels and Climate Change
Speaker: Roger L. Gauthier

Roger retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit office as a Senior Hydrologist in 2002 having spent nearly 30 years with the federal government focusing on Great Lakes hydrology, hydraulics, and geographic information. In 2002, he became a Program Manager with the Great Lakes Commission, a binational state/provincial compact agency, managing regional data coordination, habitat restoration and atmospheric toxic control programs. After retirement from the Great Lakes Commission in 2011, he was elected to chair Restore Our Water International, a binational advocacy group with members in the U.S. and Canada, focused on improving management of water levels on the upper Great Lakes. Roger is a founding member and officer of the Straits of Mackinac Alliance a non-profit charity focused on protecting the waters of the northern Lakes Michigan and Huron. He is also a Director of the Les Cheneaux Watershed Council in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

"Plant Materials To Limit Beach and Bluff Erosion"
Speaker: Deane Wassink (aka the “Duneman”)
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Born with an extreme curiosity about how things work, grow, and interact, Deane was trained in agriculture, forestry, theology, and elementary education along with greenhouse and field perennial plant propagation and production. This many faceted background came together when Deane immersed himself in the production and installation of American Beach Grass for stabilizing the shores of the Great Lakes and the East Coast. His company, Olde Paths Perennial Farm, Inc. was established in Holland, Michigan in 1988. It became the leader in the dune grass industry for the last 20 years supplying and installing over 80% of all dune grass on the Great Lakes. You can learn about dune grass and read stories and poems of the lakeshore that Deane has written at www.mydunegrass.com. Two of Deane’s sons bought the family business in 2023 and Deane is now semi-retired consulting for his sons and pursuing his other varied interests.

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