Fall Road Clean-Up

Hey Bad Medicine Lake residents and visitors, join us for the Lake Association and Lake Foundation Fall Road Clean-up on Hwy 37!

We have scheduled this Fall’s clean-up for Saturday morning October 18, at 9:00 AM. Meet us on Red Top Road to get your road section assignment, garbage bags, safety vests, and latex gloves (if you desire). We’ll have the highway broken down and marked in ½ mile segments. Doing one ½ mile segment on both sides of the road typically only takes 30 – 45 minutes. You’re welcome to one or more ½ mile segments. AND, you are more than welcome to do a section on a different day either the week before or the week after our scheduled date. If this fits into your schedule better, just give us a call and we’ll let you know which segments are available. If you’d like, we’d be glad to meet you to give you garbage bags and vests. We hope you’ll join us this year and help with this worthy cause of keeping our environment clean. See you there on Oct. 18 at 9:00!

John and Karen La Fond

218-573-3709

PS: the inclement weather date will be Oct. 25 at 9:00 AM

Board of Directors Meeting October 23, 2025

The next BMLAA board meeting is Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 7pm. Prior to each meeting, an email is sent to all BMLAA members with the opportunity to request a Google Meets link to the meeting.

2025 BMLAA Annual Membership Dues

Dues are only $20 per person and are used to help pay for AIS monitoring at the public landing. Dues should be sent to the address on the membership form. Please share this form with any new neighbors so they can be added to the BMLAA email list and directory.

AIS Monitoring

In 2024, Becker County budgeted 500 hours of inspector time for Bad Medicine Lake. Additional funding was provided by Forest Township and BMLAA, resulting in a total of 950 inspections hours completed. A total of 1,292 inspections were performed. Almost a quarter of boats entering Bad Medicine were last used on a designated infested waterbody. For additional details see this summary of 2024 AIS monitoring results.

While membership dues help, they are insufficient to cover BMLAA’s share of the AIS monitoring cost. Becker County covers 500 of the 950 hours of AIS monitoring. The cost for the remaining 450 hours is split between Forest Township and BMLAA. BMLAA’s share of the cost is $3,375. Please consider a donation to help cover this cost. Donations can be sent to the address on the membership form.