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Anderson Construction |
12 Ring Archery |
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Edinger Construction 448-2238 |
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Eric Nelson Photography and Video701-448-2000 http://www.weddingphotographerfargo.com/ |
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Jan’s Construction and
Cabinets 447-2688 |
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Johnson machine shop and gun barrel
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Justin Miller’s Excavating
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Lang’s Auto Body |
Larrie Cherry Lawn & Driveway |
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Leah Anderson Consulting 448-2220 |
Levey Construction |
Levey’s Plumbing and
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Lone Pine furnished
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Marv’s Bar |
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Mercer Machine |
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Mclean McHenry Mutual |
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McLean-Sheridan RuralWater(701)448-2686 msrw@westriv.com |
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Midcontinent Cable TV |
Miller’s Excavating 448-2240 |
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Mobile Home Lots for Rent |
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Nelson Photography and Video701-448-2000 |
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Norman Johnson machine shop and gun
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North Dakota Ag Mediation Services
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Northland Community Health Center |
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Photographer 701-448-2000 http://www.weddingphotographerfargo.com/ |
Piano Sales and services John Larson 448-2645 |
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Restaurant (Bev’s Cafe) |
Restaurant Bowling Alley For sale! |
Restaurant (701)448-2813 |
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Schaefer Excavating 448-2389 |
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Sunset Acres Mobile Home Park |
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Why
ˇ Affordable housing
ˇ Nice people and great location!
ˇ Quality business web pages to fit
your budget!!
ˇ Wide range of businesses and services!!
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Place to Hunt and Fish
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The Future Of Area Education Facilities
Some things about the projected future are
more obvious than others. For example, take the school enrollment
for area schools and the determining factors for the future of this
enrollment. Because of the expanded and expanding area coal mining,
Underwood’s immediate area family farm and ranches are almost non
existent. The western edge of the TLM school district will for the
most part be the eastern border of the newly expanded Underwood area coal
mining. Not unlike many of the other area
Looking East of Turtle Lake we see another
struggling school district. The
Situated between Underwood and McClusky is the
The TLM School District is sustained by many positive factors including strong area agriculture, strong area industry, thriving Main Street and local service industry including the hospital, clinic, dentist office, grocery store, restaurants, insurance sales, service stations, world wide product sales, product manufacturing, etc. The continued positive influence of area agriculture, area jobs, and the extraordinary area hunting and fishing that the Turtle Lake area offers are among the combined reasons why the city of Turtle Lake (including Turtle Lake’s Main Street) continues to thrive and why, with good management and planning for the future, Turtle Lake and the Turtle Lake Mercer School District should be, could be, in existence until the end of the human existence on this earth. Most of the other bordering school districts can not realistically say the same.
It is no further distance to
Underwood, Riverdale, Coleharbor,
Data to support the fact TLM is
centrally located includes the following. Underwood driving miles to the
TLM education facility is 15 miles, Coleharbor is an 18 mile cross country
drive to TLM, McClusky is a 23 mile drive to TLM, Washburn is a 25 mile
drive to TLM, Falkirk is a 25 mile drive to TLM, Denhoff is a 32 mile drive to
TLM, Butte of which is 32 miles to the north of TLM is already in the TLM
school district, Riverdale is within 33 cross country miles of TLM, Goodrich is
within 39 miles of TLM. Other parts of the equation are
that Drake and Anamoose may someday opt to combine with Velva. Velva is
only 29 miles from Drake. McClusky is 33 miles from Drake and
43 miles to Anamoose and 48 miles to
As of 2007, the statistics
indicate that TLM currently outperforms most area schools in at least some core
area standardized testing subjects including leading the county in K through 12
combined test scoring in mathematics. TLM graduates include doctors,
lawyers, engineers, agriculture, pharmacists, teachers, professors,
physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, LPNs,
dental hygienists, musicians, electricians, mechanics, physical therapists,
accountants, air traffic controllers, career military, business managers,
entrepreneurs, power and process plant electricians, plant mechanics, plant
operators, plant supervisors, building and trades, carpenters, computer
programmers, plumbers, elected officials including State Agricultural
Commissioner, business owners, game and fish related employment,
etc. Read all the print in this and all other
Autumn in Turtle
Lake North Dakota
Breath the fresh cool autumn air, feel the sunshine warming your skin, warming your very being. listen as a slight breeze rustles the colorful autumn leaves. A Swanson’s hawk stand in vigil watch from top of a fence post. In the distance you hear the honking of geese. The geese are close enough and flying low enough that you can hear their wings rhythmically cut the air as they pass over. A goose honks to its mate, making a noise that sounds closer than it should be, louder than one might expect if you had not heard it before. You watch the geese get smaller as they fly toward the horizon but then slow and circle the nearby wheat stubble, no doubt looking for something to eat and a safe place to land. A few minutes later you hear the rolling, purring noise that only a sand hill crane can make as they communicate while they too fly overhead.
It is autumn in Turtle Lake North
Dakota. Some of the locals take it all for granted, while others know
they are in paradise. Hunters and tourists come from all over the
The wheat is in the bin but the remaining short golden straw stands stiff, with a look of velvet softness when viewed from the distance. Large sunflower heads are all bowed in one direction, dark seeds in the middle, surrounded by wilting relatively short somewhat triangular flower pedals that are in various stages of darkening color. No longer bright yellow but now shades of darker yellows and browns. The stalks strain against the weight of the sunflower heads that are now as large as dinner plates, bowing slightly from the weight while the stalk leaves hang withered and dry, shades of darker green and brown.
The cattails are thick, soft color browns and tans that rustle with every breeze, in tight but irregular spacing, … framing sloughs and pot holes. The dark brown cattail seeds holding tight to their cylindrical shape, providing one of the many contrasting but natural colors of a North Dakota Autumn that is shared with those who take the time to notice. The blue sky reflects from the glassy smooth surface of the early morning slough. The muskrats stir the reflection with their wake as they slowly glide across the surface of the water, spending much of their time building their huts in the shallow water. Colorful mallard ducks, wood ducks, Northern Pintails, Reheads, Canvasbacks, Scaup, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal, and many other species of ducks are content to continue to call these sloughs and pot holes home but will soon join the migration south. Hundreds if not thousands pretty but unpopular yellow headed and red winged black birds fly past, as they too have started their migration.
As the sun sets the rooster pheasants can be
heard sounding out one last cackle before they bed down in the cattails and
heavy brush for the night. Deer can be seen in the distance as they
venture out in the early evening, looking for green grass, fallen fruit and
spilled grain. The full moon will soon give light to the night while the
great horned owl asks Who, who…who, who? Sit long enough and you
will hear the coyotes yipping and then howling for a few minutes before they
start to roam. How far does one have to travel to experience these sights
and sounds? During any given fall, this can all be heard and seen
from the edges of the city limits of
The fall fishermen are out in force too.
They stay closer to home as the weather cools but there are still many choices
for dropping a line. There are however, 18 fishing lakes within 25 miles
of town. There are three lakes within a mile and four fishing
opportunities within a mile if you include the canal. And yes, many of
the locals do include the canal in their list of great places to fish.
Driving the canal road during any given summer evening, one might find a
fisherman at every cement canal bridge for at least a mile in both directions
from
The local kids have named some of these bridges. The bridges with names are of course their favorite summer swimming holes. There is Hanson’s bridge, with a silhouette view of the wildlife club and framed by overhear power and phone lines that have dozens of lures tangled and hanging from them. Hanson’s bridge is most popular for the younger kids and worrisome for parents because it is within easy traveling distance for those on foot and on bike.
Then for the most daring, and who have a
drivers license, there is the locally famous Evans’s bridge. Evans’s
bridge is a terrifyingly high bridge located several miles south of
Not exactly sure what kids from big cities do to occupy themselves but a typical youth in and around the Turtle Lake area works for a local bee keeper either robbing honey or extracting honey, works for a local business or work on their parents farm or ranch. In their free time they participate in sports, church youth group, swimming, paintball gun wars, some play a musical instrument, some sing, many including the girls go hunting and fishing. The required hunter’s safety course for youth hunters is likely to include as many girls as boys. Driving through the nearby country one is sure to notice the remaining magnificently large barns that dot the landscape. These grand structures are a reminder of the proud heritage of those who founded this land and those who have followed.
The city of
It Is The People!
It’s the people. More than
anything it is the people that make
Agriculture is still very much a part of the
area economy and very much a part of the local way of life here in
Perhaps not everyone that currently lives in
the Turtle lake area is employed through agriculture but agriculture and the
influences of agriculture are likely much of what all of the modern day
inhabitants love about the
When I attended high school at TLM during the seventies, I did not have much of an agriculture back ground but I was elected as the Reporter for the Turtle Lake- Mercer FFA and awarded the Star Agribusinessman award for my work as a student mechanic at Haas Chevrolet and International Harvester implement dealership. These honors and awards had as much or more to do with my ability to write as it did with anything else that I had to offer at that time.
During the 1980’s the drought and low
grain prices took a tremendous toll on
This web page is a continuation of that
original Explore Turtle Lake Project effort to preserve the communities that
serve the Turtle Lake Mercer area. This web pages’ associated guest
book has entries that date back to 1999, while the main content and theme of
this page dates back several years prior to that earliest guest book
entry. The Explore Turtle Lake Project
has had a hand in writing and originally funding most of the content of four
hugely popular Explore Turtle Lake booklets, the original and current main
three Turtle Lake web pages and most of the other web pages that still
represent the various positive aspects of the Turtle Lake and Mercer
area. When a person or organization takes on a project of this magnitude
there is hope that the project will become self sustaining and that those who
are influenced by the project will be a large part of that continuation of goal
and theme. As a result of the success of
us advertising what we have to offer here in
Occasionally we hear of or read an inaccurate
description of
Charles Bowden showed up on a college campus in
As a former TLM FFA Reporter, I am proud to report that TLM, the City of Turtle Lake, TLM area agriculture and the TLM FFA are still in existence today. The TLM FFA is representative of our past, our present and the future existence of the Turtle Lake Mercer area. The TLM FFA has a long and distinguished history, complete with state and national honors and awards. I would very much like to link a TLM FFA history web page here or publish TLM FFA accomplishments on a web page if someone would take on the project of accumulating and typesetting this info to a pc format. E-mail me at doncullum@yahoo.com
