Naturalizing your shoreline is the most important contribution you can make to enhance water quality, maintain fishery resources, and provide wildlife habitat.
With the elevated water level, a number of lakeshore owners are seeing soil erosion. While we explore avenues to address water levels, there are things we can do to help prevent future erosion while improving the quality of the lake.
1. Riprap: Shoreline Alterations: Riprap (state.mn.us)
2. Soft Armor or natural vegetation buffer: Shoreland Restoration — Whitefish Area Property Owner's Association (wapoa.org)
Do I need a permit? | Minnesota DNR (state.mn.us)
"A healthy shoreland supports a diverse community of fish and wildlife by providing native vegetation that fulfills their habitat needs where land and water meet. Native vegetation provides important water quality functions by slowing and filtering water runoff as it moves to the lake or stream. Shorelines with a diverse mixture of native plants extending inland as well as offshore of the bank are more resilient to wave and ice erosion. Our lakes, streams and wetlands need healthy shorelines to reduce runoff, filter pollutants, and provide important habitat functions that benefit fish and wildlife."
