As we prepare for a new membership year, we’re excited to share updates that make it easier than ever to manage your Protect Lake Beulah (PLB) membership. Whether you’re renewing, updating your information, or exploring our new tiered membership options, we’ve streamlined the process to give you more clarity and control.

This guide walks you through the most common membership tasks — from logging into your profile to adding secondary members — so you can navigate everything with confidence.

Summer is just around the corner and the birds are chirping! As we prepare for the 2026 season, we have some exciting announcements for our Protect Lake Beulah (PLB) members.  

For over 30 years, PLB has operated with a single membership classification and dues structure. During that time, we have worked hard to stretch every dollar and focus our resources where they matter most—protecting the beauty, ecology, and long-term health of Lake Beulah.

Do you have cabin fever after our COLD winter?  You might want to consider tapping your Maple trees soon!  Did you know that Wisconsin is the 3rd largest producer of maple syrup and maple products among US states?

I am an amateur, as this will only be my 3rd year tapping my maple trees.  I’m happy to share what I have learned and hope that others will consider tapping and/or offer their expertise!

When I sat down to write this post, I warmed up my mind by looking through some photos  I have of our beautiful lake in winter. Seeing it covered in ice and snow reminds me of the year-round beauty of Lake Beulah! Even the ice itself reminds me of a painter’s canvas.

As we head into the holiday season and a new year, let’s commit ourselves to protecting Lake Beulah—our shared treasure—for generations to come. Together, we can ensure its waters remain clear, its shores resilient, and its community strong.

Educating myself on this issue for the past 4-5 years, I have learned so, so much. The one thing certain to me today as I write this letter – Wake Surfing is causing damage to our lake, its vegetation and its marl bottom! We now have secured a wake surf boat for conducting testing to better understand the effects of wake-enhanced surfing to our lake. We have incorporated divers (retired firefighters) who live in our community and share the same love for our lakes. They manage the park at Booth Lake, another lake where this topic is very controversial.

Lake Beulah‘s population of bluegills is strong and healthy; size and structure is excellent with many 8 to 10 inch bluegills being caught. Fishing pressure for bluegills is heavy; recommendations would be to only harvest as many bluegills as needed versus taking full limits. Observations on shallow water spawning bluegills, those spawning along the shorelines in less than 3 feet of water is the same as the last few years where shallow spawning bluegills have been disappearing. Recommendations for shallow spawning bluegills which are the easiest to target and catch, would be to limit targeting and harvesting those fish as they are a specific strain of bluegill and it would be helpful to let them reestablish themselves.

The old joke about the inevitability of death and taxes is funny because it’s true. Most of us want to delay both as long as possible. But many of us also want to make a difference for those people and things that we care about, and Lake Beulah is one of these for me and many of my friends.

As a Protect Lake Beulah (PLB) Board member for seven years, the end of my service this fall has me thinking about giving back and protecting this gem of a natural resource for future generations. That’s why I have proposed the establishment of Protect Lake Beulah Legacy (PLBL), a separate entity structured as a 501(c)(3) to capture donations large and small (including bequests) for investment that will grow over time and provide an annual income to Protect Lake Beulah to fund its evolution and initiatives.