• Offers innovative and low-cost strategies not found in the technical literature
• Describes step-by-step approaches to implementing lake improvement projects
• Includes cost-effective strategies for protecting and restoring the shoreland area
• Contains approaches applicable for shallow lake management programs
• Includes over 700 diagrams and photographs

The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993.

Completely revised and updated, now published by Lewis Publishers, this guidebook contains over 300 ideas and projects including step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face everyday. Coverage includes shoreland buffer installation, fisheries management, reducing nuisance algal growth, controlling exotic aquatic plants, lakeside wastewater treatment systems, small scale dredging, and more.