Talk:Devils Lake (North Dakota)

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support The name "Devils Lake" is the proper name of this lake, as well as the nearby town and the basin which the lake is a part of. The United States Geological Survey page for the basin and lake confirm this. In addition, citations in the above article from peer-reviewed journal articles confirm that "Devils Lake" is indeed the common naming convention for the lake. As such, the page should be redirected from Devil's Lake (North Dakota) to Devils Lake (North Dakota). MikeGruz (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: * It is the wrong name in any case; it should be Devil's Lake.
*:The missing apostrophe in the name of the associated city is the result of a U.S. Post Office push early in the 20th century to eliminate apostrophes from all post office names.  The same consideration does not apply to the name of the lake.
*:I don't have time to fix it now, but will later if nobody beats me to it.  Gene Nygaard 15:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong name 

message: I listened to a program on NPR and they described Devil's Lake (Or Devils Lake, if you prefer) as being saline. In fact the pricipal opposition to draining the lake's water is based on the concern's that the lake's salt content would be harmful towards river water. Piercetp 17:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And the 1:250k USGS Topo Map reads "Devils Lake" (then a line break) "Salt". 82.36.26.70 10:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it really freshwater? 

message: I noticed that this article is in a category of articles regarding endorheic lakes.  Is it now not an endorheic considering it now has at least one outlet?  Or are the rules not incredibly strict and the article is considered to be of interest to those who are looking up endorheic lakes?
Minshullj 04:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding is that the outlet has never been allowed to run.  Also most endorheic basins are only "endorheic until X" - the current lake level as observed this morning actually has it being non-endorheic because it is high enough to flow into the Sheyenne Contributions/12.52.96.200 (talk) 14:59, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

text: The man-made outlet has run but only a few days.  You are mistaken.  The lake has never come close to a level of 1458 which is the base level that the lake will naturally run from stump lake to the Sheyenne River.--Benjaminlately (talk) 08:25, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Update:  They have doubled the capacity of the outlet by installing two more pumps, but I am unsure how much they are being used. (Benjaminlately (talk) 16:01, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endorheic? 

message: I think that the "data" from the study should be removed from the last paragraph "Data from the first year of sampling indicates that fish in Devils Lake are healthier than fish in other waterbodies in the region. Highlighting the lack of knowledge about biological communities outside of Devils Lake, two alien parasite species were found in Lake Winnipeg, the Asian tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi and the blood dwelling trematode, Sanguincola occidentalis." because it is very specific without any supporting references at all. In fact, I think that most of the information in the paragraph could have easily been made up, and on such a controversial issue at least one source should be required.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.172.171 (talk) 09:14, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last section paragraph of  "Outlet Controversy" 

message: Runaway Devils Lake; In the wake of climate change, a North Dakota lake swells without regard for people or property and with no easy fix in sight.  99.109.125.114 (talk) 01:57, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Global warming]] in the [[American Scientist]], resource 

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