Introduction: Carrol Henderson, Chair; Barb Liukkonen, Jenifer Matthees, and Jan Shaw Wolff. Review by Carolyn Dindorf.

Shore Lore: Michelle Bratager, Chair; Marilyn Bayerl, Leilani Kostreba Peterson, Barb Liukkonen, Jenny Winkelman and Mike Halverson. Additional content contributed by Bill Bartodziej, Mary Blickenderfer, Carolyn Dindorf, Gene Jeseritz, and Gregg Thompson. Review by Mary Blickenderfer, Carolyn Dindorf, and Gregg Thompson. Plant lists reviewed by Welby Smith.

Visual Preference Exercise was adapted from the lakescaping workshop series. It was designed for this application by Jan Shaw Wolff and Carrol Henderson with input from Tim Kelly, Minnesota DNR and David Pitt, University of Minnesota.

Steps & Techniques: Reading your shoreline and Implementing your project: Bill Bartodziej, Carolyn Dindorf, Mike Halverson, Jenifer Matthees, Gregg Thompson, and Jenny Winkelman. Identifying your objectives and Designing your shoreline: Gregg Thompson, Angela Anderson and Carrol Henderson. Section reviewed by Angela Anderson, Carolyn Dindorf, Mike Halverson, Amy Loiselle, Peder Otterson, Leilani Kostreba Peterson and Jan Shaw Wolff.

The Site Assessment Worksheet was adapted from a prototype developed by the Minnesota DNR Division of Fisheries. Other forms and worksheets in this section were refined by Carolyn Dindorf and Gregg Thompson.

Plant Guide: Welby Smith, Chair; Angela Anderson, Leilani Peterson, and Donna Perleberg. Native Plant Communities chapter reviewed by Dan Wovcha. Native plant list reviewed by Mary Blickenderfer. Non-native Invasive chapter reviewed by Ellen Fuge and Jay Rendall.

Native plant species descriptions and narratives were written by Barbara Delaney and Welby Smith (based on information from Appendix A: Plant List originally developed by Julia Bohnen for the "Lakescaping for Wildlife and Water Quality" book). Recommended planting range maps were created by Welby Smith and computer generated by Rolf Dahle.

The Invasive Non-native chapter of the Plant Guide Section was based largely on a Minnesota DNR Division of Trails and Waterways publication under the direction of Angela Anderson entitled: "Minnesota non-native terrestrial plants: an identification guide for resource managers, 2001."

Additional technical input and text review provided by Bob Bystrom, Wendy Crowell, Robert Dana, Steve Enger, Linda Erickson-Eastwood, Carol Hall, Nicole Hansel-Welch, Julie Klocker, Ray Norrgard, Luke Skinner, Mark Tomasek, Chip Welling and David Wright and anonymous reviewers in the DNR Division of Fisheries.

Program content final editor: Jan Shaw Wolff