Recently awarded the 2011 Non-Profit Business of the Year award by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, Friends of Wilson Lake is more than just a 290+ member organization. President Wynn Muller and wife, Sandy, have worked tirelessly to create an organization to protect and preserve the beauty of Wilson Lake.

Education and helping the public know what should and shouldn’t be done around the water is a large part of its mission. The group provides a boat monitoring program at the lake’s boat landing. They hire students and train them to watch for invasive plants. The students, in turn, teach boat owners how to inspect their boats, she said. For more than 20 years, FOWL members have taken water samples from the lake twice a month. Data is sent to the Department of Environmental Protection, which provides the group with reports on water quality.

FOWL has worked to promote the Lake Smart program among homeowners on the lake. It’s a voluntary, statewide program that helps them see ways to protect the water by what they do on their own property. Over the years, the group has remained steadfast in their mission to preserve and protect the aesthetic qualities, the recreational value and the purity of the water of Wilson Lake and its watershed, for the benefit of Wilton and all of Franklin County. To learn more about additional programs FOWL offers, contribute, or become involved contact Vice President Mary Ryan at 207-645-4878.

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