The Lake Miltona Association (LMA) is a volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.  Membership is open to all who are supportive of our lake preservation mission.  More information about us and our activities are selectable via the menu at the left.  On this page are: Announcements, Contact us information, an overview of Lake Miltona and Photo comments.     

Announcements:

1. The next quarterly LMA board meeting is scheduled for April 14th, 2012 - 9 a.m. at LJ's in Miltona.

2. Annual fundraiser 'Admission Ticket Door Prize' winners on August 20th  were Chuck Ronnebaum-$100, Lynn Glesne-$50, and Cynthia Trudeau-$50. 

3. The annual Fourth of July boat/pontoon parade was on Sunday, July 3 at 1 pm, The winners and a photo slide show are posted on the Events, Boat Parade page. The winners' names are being engraved on a plaque which will be mounted on the wall of LJ's Cafe in Miltona. 
4. Volunteers in Field Work - We Need You! The LMA board thanks all the local volunteers who helped to post the 'No Aquatic Hitchhikers' boards at our three public landings. One of the volunteers was Lynn Glesne, shown at the right.  These signs were developed to help educate transient boaters to avoid transporting zebra mussels and harmful milfoil.
5. The LMA Fisheries Management Team volunteers have posted Walleye size limit signs at various places around the lake. 
6. Zebra Muscles were found in nearby Lake Irene in 2011.  The apparent source was a transported boat lift! Copper Sulfate was being applied in the local area as an attempt to erradicate the pests.  See BULLETIN BOARD, Hot Topics section for a report and information. The figure below provides identification information.

*The Lakes Journal provides nontlly news from the Douglas, Grant, and Pope County lakes area.

Contact Us

See Association Business Items, Board page for the other officers and your area director.

An Overview of the Lake

Lake Miltona is a heavily developed recreational lake located in Douglas County about eleven miles North of Alexandria, MN along the west side of Hwy 29. The lake offers diverse habitat and structure; including extensive shallow flats, submerged islands and bars, and depths down to 100 feet. Water quality and clarity are considered good. Seechi disk transparency is usually ten feet or greater during summer months. 

Lake Miltona supports an abundant and diverse aquatic plant community, including large beds of hardstem bulrush. These aquatic plants provide important spawning and cover habitat for many fish species. They also help to maintain water quality and protect the shoreline from wave and boat traffic induced erosion. 

Primary fisheries management is directed towards walleye. Black crappie and smallmouth bass also contribute to the quality fishery on Lake Miltona. Lake Miltona is also a popular spot for muskie anglers. The lake supports a quality muskellunge population, stocked in alternate years by the DNR. 

The satellite image used for this illustrated lake depiction is from Google Earth.

Photos

LMA members are invited to submit photos for the slide show atop our web pages.  The photos should include the lake or something closely related to the lake.  The general guidelines are that pictures should be format as *.jpg files and cropped into a 170 x 960 pixel size, other sizes submitted will be combined into collages including the contributors name.  Unless noted otherwise, the photos are from LABenson's collection - click  previously shown photos for a pdf file.  

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