In recent months, the cumulative voice of nature enthusiasts, property owners and boaters alike has grown from isolated grumbling to collective, serious concern about boating wakes on Lake Martin. Conservationists are alarmed over the rate at which boat wakes are eroding the shoreline; property owners are outraged at the extent of damage that large wakes cause to personal and real property; and boaters fire back that they have as much right to recreation on the lake as everyone else.

And it may be that everyone is right and everyone can do something about it.