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June 2025

Scott Brown
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Michigan’s Inland Lakes: Vital Economic Engines

Created by the glaciers that gradually receded from North America’s Great Lakes region more than ten thousand years ago, inland lakes grace Michigan’s unique landscape like sparkling jewels. Thousands of inland lakes of all shapes, sizes, and depths play a distinctive role in making Michigan a beautiful place to live, work, and engage in water-borne recreational activities. In addition to enhancing the natural beauty of our freshwater-centric state, inland lakes contribute an extraordinarily valuable array of economic benefits to Michigan by:

  • providing high quality recreational opportunities for millions of our fellow citizens and visitors to our magnificent state
  • enabling lucrative inland lake dependent business opportunities for thousands of entrepreneurs
  • supporting premium lakefront living lifestyles and enhanced riparian property values that benefit hundreds of local communities and public schools
  • enhancing the aesthetic appeal and therefore the economic viability of near-by villages, towns, and urban areas

Moreover, by enabling popular water-borne recreational activities such as boating, fishing, and waterfowl hunting, our inland lakes play a vital role in helping to promote and sustain market driven economic expansion by stimulating the demand for new lakefront and/or near shore businesses as well by contributing to the prosperity and growth of nearby communities. Generating tens of billions of dollars in annual economic activity, our natural treasure of thousands of high-quality inland lakes are vital economic engines that will ultimately play an important role in helping to create and sustain the robust “blue” economy that will help ensure a productive and prosperous future for coming generations of Michigan’s citizens.

Scott Brown
In News

Successful May 21st 2025 Lake Awareness Day Event Seeks to Draw the Attention of State Officials to the Vast Economic Contributions of Michigan’s Inland Lakes

For the third consecutive year, a collaborative partnership planned and implemented Lake Appreciation Day was dedicated to helping educate officials from Michigan’s Governor’s office, State Senate, and House of Representatives in regards to the immense ecological and economic value of our inland lakes and their vital role in contributing to Michigan’s ‘blue’ economy and culture. The need for the Governor’s office and the state legislature to begin working together to enact state laws intended to protect the long-term ecological viability of our inland lakes while at the same time significantly increasing public investment in statewide programs implemented to help preserve and protect their increasingly vulnerable aquatic ecosystems is emphasized to those in attendance. It is also important to note that those in attendance at the late morning, early afternoon event enjoyed a catered lunch.

Participants in the Wednesday, May 21st 2025 Lake Awareness Day that was held at the corporate offices of Karoub Associates located near the state capitol building in downtown Lansing included Senators, Representatives, and/or staff members representing Michigan’s state legislature, state natural resource and environmental protection agencies, inland lake conservation focused non-profit organizations, and lake management focused commercial businesses that each hold a vested interest in preserving and protecting Michigan’s vast treasure of inland lakes. Participants in the 2025 Lake Appreciation Day program included:

2025 Lake Appreciation Day event planners are committed to a plethora of scientific evidence that strongly suggests that the long-term capacity of many of Michigan’s extraordinary inland lakes to continue making vital contributions to our economy and culture are contingent upon the capacity of state government to enact state laws focused upon:

  • Protecting both the short and long-term ecological health of our inland lakes and wetlands;
  • Establishing and administering a statewide septic system code;
  • Increase funding to establish and expand MDNR and EGLE programs dedicated to inland lake stewardship, restoration, and aquatic invasive species prevention and management;
  • Establishing and administering alternative sustainable means of increasing funding for inland lake conservation and aquatic invasive species prevention and management efforts;
  • Educating riparians and near shore businesses with regard to the need to implement inland lake Best Management Practices and encourage their pro-active involvement in inland lake restoration projects.
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