Mother Nature Flexing Her Might on Forest Lake Shoreline

First question is - "How do we fix this?"  It looks mounds in a pasture.

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This is a crazy looking shoreline, and it's all due to ice pushing up the shoreline and leaving behind piles of rocks and shoreline lifted and scrunched.

How does this happen?  From KARE 11 - Ice ridges are formed when we have weather like what we have been having the last few weeks.  Ice melts, and warms during the day, then it refreezes, expands, and pushes up the shoreline.  Residents who have been there for decades say that they have never seen anything like this before.

"Never really seen anything like this," Beth Toutges, a lifelong resident of Forest Lake, said. "Not this bad, not even close."

Dan Scollan from the DNR had to stop by as well just to see how bad it was.  No one could believe that it was this extreme.

"This is the most severe that I've seen," Scollan, area hydrologist for the east metro area of the Twin Cities, said. "I've heard it from residents as well, that this is the worst they've seen in decades."

I've been around lakes when the ice pushes up around the shoreline.  It's kind of crazy to see. And it seems the bigger the lake, the more spectacular the ice will be.  Think about Mille Lacs and Lake Superior.  I've seen, as I'm sure many have, pictures of the crazy ice sculptures that Mother Nature creats.  But this is a new one for Forest Lake.

So now, the city is going ot have to fix this situation and then come up with a plan for this not to happen again.  Apparently if you plant some trees and some other natural vegetation which seems to help prevent something like this from happening again.  At leat keeping it from becoming this extreme.