They are a kayakers nightmare I’m all for banning them in lakes but it’s too big of an industry now.

Wish they would let me bulldoze my grass and lay down rock.

Yes, but, but … when I want to really get back to nature I go camping.

I was surprised the article didn't go into the potential damage to local docks and other boats. I have a home with a dock in the area where wakeboarders go back and forth all day. The waves are giant and unending and the dock shakes all day long. Big waves pounding anything regularly is a bad situation so common sense tells me something is being damaged or the life span of the dock is being reduced. I obviously didn't do a study but I know boating and big waves = not good.

Not sure how much that article about the mostly natural likes Minnesota relates to the mostly artificial lakes in the Villages and wakeboarding. Those Minnesota lakes have probably had thousands of years to develop their natural environment. I am way older than most of artificial lakes in the Villages.


Good article though. Kudos to the U of MN. Huge school. One of my three Alma maters. I donate small amounts to their law school where I was Class of 1989 every so often. Also dabbled in various languages while working in their law library. Completed some courses in German, Dutch and Italian . And sat in on a few lessons in Chinese and Japanese. Dropped Russian. They did have courses in many languages.


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One thing that I know that is related to this subject is that grass produces much less oxygen than trees and hedges. Also, trees and hedges create more cover for songbirds. Trees and hedges produce a greater cooling effect than grass does. Transpiration by trees and hedges provides a cooling effect for both land and air.

I worry about the fish populations and possible increase in green algae.

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There was a huge lake in Northern Minnesota and central Canada from the melting of the Ice Age glaciers called Lake Agassiz . I wonder if there was an wakeboarding? Maybe not even any ancient Americans there as yet .

Aren’t all bodies of water in Florida just couple feet of brown/green water with weed & predator infested muck bottom. Wake boarding couldn’t do much damage.

Torch Lake in Michigan has wakeboard rules. Then again it’s pristine body of water, that residents living on the lake make sure nothing changes the quality of living on the lake.

Lake Tahoe probably has wakeboarding but it is often very cold and is very deep. One of the things I really miss about the Reno, Nevada area is Lake Tahoe .


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What's stopping you?

I agree, lake Minona should be trolling motor only. Actually be better to back couple thousand years. :BigApplause:

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