Question about lake water terminology: Nov 19, 2009
The term "internal loading" refers to release of phosphorus from sediment in the lakes and from dead aquatic plants as they decay. Essentially, the beds of the lakes in the Chetek chain are likely very fertile, with phosphorus stored up in the sediment from both recent and historic runoff. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Ice retreat creates new CO2 store Nov 18, 2009
Retreating ice in Antarctic has allowed tiny aquatic plants to flourish and absorb 3. 5 million tonnes of carbon from the ocean and atmosphere annually. (BBC News -- Science)
Officials want input on Silver Glen Springs Nov 10, 2009
Concerns include damage to aquatic plants from boat and human foot traffic as well as pollution from the boats. The spring is considered critical habitat for the endangered Florida manatee. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Calls to protect China's polluted lakes Nov 3, 2009
In addition, nearly 90 per cent of China's lakes have eutrophic water rich in nutrients - often linked to pollution - that cause excessive growth of aquatic plants, reducing oxygen and often killing off animals. Taihu Lake in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for example, has been massively polluted by dumping of sewage as well as industrial and agricultural waste, and is now plagued with algae. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Wyoming briefs Nov 2, 2009
A cow moose dribbles water from her long snout while foraging on aquatic plants in Grand Teton National Park recently. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent). (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
PCB dredging stops for now Oct 29, 2009
Next spring, scuba divers will start hand-planting aquatic plants on the new river bottom to speed up the restoration, said General Electric Co. spokesman Mark Behan. GE has been conducting the cleanup under the direction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Albany Times Union)
Aquatic invasives: Not just a summer problem Oct 22, 2009
I recall the Clean Boats Clean Waters people and Water Guards educating us at boat landings, reminding us to make sure to drain all water from boats, motors, bilges and live wells, and to clean all aquatic plants, animals and mud from boats, trailers and equipment before going to another waterway ... But isnt that transporting aquatic plants, which is illegal under the new NR 40 ... This exception allows for the use of emergent vegetation in constructing a shooting or observation blind and... (Forest Republican, WI)
Restoration of Red Brook in Wareham, Plymouth nearly complete Oct 18, 2009
Farther upstream, where a dam had been removed two years ago, aquatic plants bloomed in the water along with native grasses, and the project had the look of completion, said Nick Wildman, the Red Brook project manager for the Riverways Program. Fish come here to spawn. (Boston Globe)
October a special month in the north Oct 11, 2009
It is an area rich in aquatic plants, waterfowl and wild rice. The muskrats were building their grass and mud lodges. (Forest Republican, WI)
How to Make a Bog Garden Oct 9, 2009
Creating a Flowerbed for Marginal and Aquatic Plants. This is an easy to follow tutorial on putting in a bog garden for water plants and other aquatic life. (Suite101.com)
With once-exotic Canada geese, familiarity can breed contempt Oct 9, 2009
Canada geese are diurnal (active during the day), herbivorous (plant eaters) and graze on grasses, roots, tubers, seeds, grains, nuts, aquatic plants and algae. They may occasionally supplement their diets with aquatic insects or other invertebrates. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Did hitchhiking toxins kill fish? Oct 4, 2009
Last week, a long-awaited 18-month state environmental review of Marcellus shale drilling issues in New York said that floating and submerged aquatic plants could be transported by a variety of equipment used in the deep shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing processes to crack the shale layer and release the gas it contains. "Invasive species may potentially be transferred to a new area or watershed if unused water containing such species is later discharged at another location," the report... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A Short Introduction to Oil Prices and Oil Inventories Oct 2, 2009
---there is even a plant being built in Florida to produce ethanol from citrus rinds left over after juice is made and aquatic plants dredged out of canals. Range Fuels is just completeting a plant in Soperton GA to produce 100 million gallons/yr of ethanol from wood logging and milling waste when full capacity is reached. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Pine Lake district receives $17,000 grant from DNR Sep 25, 2009
The project includes studies of the lakes watershed, aquatic plants and water quality. The studies are being completed through the combined efforts of the Wisconsin DNR and Onterra, LLC, a lake management planning firm based in De Pere. (Forest Republican, WI)
Aquarium, city ink 30-year contract Sep 18, 2009
opened in 1995 and houses more than 20,000 aquatic plants and animals. About 750,000 guests visit the aquarium each year. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
McKinney: Ready for an EcoAdventure? Sep 11, 2009
"Several aquatic plants are really unique in that their root systems can take pollution and break that pollution down into safe organic compounds. They're great filters, all the wetland plants, and their little root systems do a huge clean up job on our water.". Examples of vegetation and wildlife attendees can look for are rushes and sedges along with willows, and frogs, turtles, and wading birds. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Harris weed project should have 'minimal' impact Sep 10, 2009
It typically outcompetes native aquatic plants and can grow an inch a day until it has filled the water column. On shallow lakes, it can completely take over. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Rediscovered 1855 book offers a novel view of Florida Sep 7, 2009
A typical excerpt from "A Trip to Florida for Health and Sport: The Lost 1855 Novel of Cyrus Parkhurst Condit," shows the author's experience of an unspoiled Florida:"The stream or creek was a hundred yards wide but almost completely choked up with bonnets and other aquatic plants. They forced the boat slowly through this mass of plants and leaves, hoping to find a channel. After a short distance, the creek narrowed and had a clear channel in the center. Orange and cabbage palmetto trees hung... (Florida Today)
Researcher to give invasive species talk Sep 2, 2009
Wilde will discuss how research now implicates invasive aquatic plants and associated cyanobacteria species as links in an emerging fatal disease that primarily affects raptors and waterfowl. The program, which is open to the public, starts at 7 p.m. in the ENSAT Building at Sandy Creek Nature Center, 205 Old Commerce Road off U.S. Highway 441 north of the Athens Perimeter. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Seeing The Tree From The Forest: Predicting The Future Of Plant Communities Aug 30, 2009
(July 13, 2005) The way aquatic plants respond to plant disease and climate change may have applications for managing land-based agriculture, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society. (Nov. (Science Daily)
Fellsmere company expects to rake in green with algae farm Aug 25, 2009
They would use indigenous algae and other tiny aquatic plants, including diatoms, angiosperms and cyanobacteria. PetroAlgae has identified 150 species that work in their system. (Florida Today)
Open Forum: LID helped clean up Crow Wing Lake Aug 22, 2009
Our lake was overrun with two exotic aquatic plants, curlyleaf pondweed and coontail, probably introduced by way of our public landing. Enjoying boating or swimming out from the shoreline was near impossible. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
New aquatic plant life at Schildberg Aug 14, 2009
DNR officials were planting five cages of aquatic plants and the cages help keep fish and other water creatures from eating the plant life. ADVERTISEMENT. (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
Shoreline buffer one way to help fish, stop phosphorus Aug 13, 2009
Cahow fears the overabundance of aquatic plants, which cause daily pH and oxygen swings, could potentially kill off mass quantities of fish if their growth continues unabated. At the CLPA meeting, one thing was certain: members wanted to know how they could help improve water quality. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Southwestern travel notes Aug 11, 2009
Anglers and boaters converged on two East Texas lakes in July to find and remove invasive aquatic plants that threaten to curtail recreation at Texas lakes if left unchecked. At Lake Quitman, north of the city of Quitman in Wood County, volunteers from the American Anglers Club from Temple and Killeen, the Grand Saline Bass Club and the Lake Fork Hawg Hunters removed seven dump-truck loads of water hyacinth from the lake. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Dragonfly Mating and Reproduction Aug 11, 2009
Some damselflies and dragonflies, including the two primitive Anisotrophomorpha species, lay their eggs in the stems and leaves of sedges, rushes, and aquatic plants. Many that use aquatic plants have saw-like ovipositors that slice through the outer tissues of these structures and allow the eggs to be inserted below the stem surface. (Suite101.com)
Indoor Water Features Aug 10, 2009
Aquatic Plants Add Life to Small Water Features. Many who have owned fish tanks may think of simply as an addition to a tank, a place for fish and other animals to hide. (Suite101.com)
• Wild Observations: Beavers in the bog Aug 6, 2009
First off, they don't eat fish, rather they eat a variety of plants - bark, roots, grasses, and aquatic plants like the water lily. They build dams to create pools of still, deep water for predatory protection from bears and wolves and to float food and building materials across spans where it would be crazy or impossible to drag them. (Juneau Empire)
Across the Pond and Beyond : Water lilies: lovely to look at, lethal to lakes Aug 1, 2009
Because the water lily has been around for as long as we all can remember, and it does often produce beautiful white or tinted pink blossoms, it hasn t been thought of as one of the exotic, non-native, invasive aquatic plants ... Water lilies were introduced into North America as far back as the late 1700s as ornamental aquatic plants in estates with their own ponds. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)
Green water, chemicals: lake worries and theories Jul 30, 2009
Nor will herbicides bioaccumulate in fish, he adds, nor will they kill monocots (the majority of aquatic plants fall into this category) if designed to eliminate dicots ... Besides, when someone wants to kill aquatic plants, they have to try harder than that, Damman adds ... When water is clear, aquatic plants are winning the competition for sunlight and food. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Invasive mussel found in Mass. lake Jul 9, 2009
Also, as the lakes become clearer, some aquatic plants grow that benefit other fish, ultimately changing the natural ecosystem. At Laurel Lake, the discovery has disappointed some people who now cannot boat on the scenic lake. (Boston Globe)
Volunteers get feet wet with aquatic plantings Jul 8, 2009
Holes were drilled into the logs at six inch intervals, into which were plugged bulrushes and sedges, in hopes of rejuvenating the native aquatic plants that once flourished there ... Last fall, Clean Water Alliance coordinator John Wills and urban conservationist Steve Anderson collected seeds from bulrushes, cattails and other aquatic plants native to the Iowa Great Lakes region. (Sioux City Journal)
Keeping weeds at bay in Saratoga Lake Jun 29, 2009
Nuisance aquatic plants being harvested from Saratoga Lake on Wednesday. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union). (Albany Times Union)
ACROSS THE POND AND BEYOND: Heed the signs at Hobomock Pond Jun 16, 2009
Because hydrilla is one of the most dreaded aquatic plants, the DCR jumped right on this problem and took over immediately to try to control and, with any luck, eradicate this extremely invasive and destructive plant before it chokes out Hobomock Pond and anything living in it ... Many of those tank plants bought a few years ago were invasive, exotic aquatic plants. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)
Pond workshop offered by Penn State May 31, 2009
The Penn State Cooperative Extension in Somerset County will host a pond management workshop to help owners better manage their small and large ponds (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Lerin Hills sewer plant gets TCEQ approval (102) May 27, 2009
Testimony in the case suggests that one of Woods primary concerns is the potential that the sewer treatment plant could discharge large amounts of phosphorous into Deep Hollow Creek which, in turn, could cause excessive growth of aquatic plants in a pond Wood and his family use for recreational purposes. Wood declined to say how much he has spent for attorneys and technical experts to contest the permit, but he did confirm reports that he has shared expenses with the Tapatio Springs Resort. (Boerne Star, TX)
Insight Into Evolution Of First Flowers May 19, 2009
19, 2007) A team of University of British Columbia researchers has re-classified an ancient line of aquatic plants previously thought to be related to grasses and rushes. The discovery clarifies what may be. (Science Daily)
There’s No Shortage of Ag-Related Issues and Concerns (3) May 17, 2009
These bills propose changes to current laws regulating the placement of certain boats, boat trailers and equipment in navigable waters with aquatic plants attached. No one wants to see invasive species (zebra mussels etc. (Agri-View, WI)
Column: Battling pond algae May 16, 2009
Also there is usually a lack of other aquatic plants that would otherwise absorb the nitrates and phosphates and deprive the algae of food ... Planting some aquatic plants will help, especially lily pads which provide shade as well as absorb the nutrients. (Cassopolis Vigilant, MI)
Lake Waco To Receive Eco-Enhancement May 12, 2009
Beginning Tuesday, representatives from the three entities as well as other volunteer groups will be adding native aquatic plants, vegetation, and hybrid Striped White Bass to the lake. It is a combined effort to boost the aquatic habitat of Lake Waco. (KWTX.com, TX)
Lake Association seeks help with millfoil May 3, 2009
LWIPA also instituted a Clean Boats, Clean Waters campaign utilizing volunteers to check boats being launched and brought in at Lake Wissota boat landings to make sure they are free of clinging aquatic plants, as that is how Eurasian Water Millfoil spreads. LWIPA and Chippewa Rod and Gun Club members contributed 517 volunteer hours to the program in 2006 and another 816 hours in 2007 and 514 hours in 2008. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water Apr 28, 2009
Warfarin, which also is a common rat poison and pesticide, is so effective at inhibiting growth of aquatic plants and animals it's actually deliberately introduced to clean plants and tiny aquatic animals from ballast water of ships. "With regard to wastewater management we are subject to a variety of federal, state and local regulation and oversight," said Joel Green, Upsher-Smith's vice president and general counsel. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Barron County wins 2013 Farm Technology Days Apr 28, 2009
Supervisors also passed an ordinance banning the transport of aquatic plants and invasive species. Signage warning boaters to clean their crafts will be placed at boat landings. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Rodent cuisine Apr 13, 2009
Scientific name: Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris Can grow to 130cm long (more than four feet) Can weigh up to 45 kg (100lb) Eats grasses and aquatic plants Able to remain under water for up to five minutes. Her customers, however, were less reticent about their taste for the salted rodent. (BBC News)
Fox called an endangered river Apr 12, 2009
Some very small particles drift downstream, blocking the light that aquatic plants need to grow and encouraging algae growth elsewhere. Pollution of urban rivers like the Fox causes problems all along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, the report says. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Caring for Tropical Freshwater Aqua... Apr 6, 2009
Live aquatic plants can also be a big help in a tropical freshwater aquarium because the plants also help utilize the ammonia and lower the waste levels in the tank. The plants also give shy or frightened fish ample hiding places which reduces the amount of stress the fish experience and keeps them healthier. (Suite101.com)
Aquatic plant removal may require permit Apr 3, 2009
Before you remove aquatic plants from a public lake, check with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources ... State law requires that residents of a public lake who want to chemically control or physically remove aquatic plants along more than 25 feet of their shoreline, a total surface area of more than 625 square feet, or at water depths greater than 6 feet, must first obtain a written permit from the DNR. Residents who treat less than the specified amount do not need a permit ... This... (Brownstown Jackson County Banner, IN)
Growing Live Aquarium Plants Apr 1, 2009
Whether they are gracing the tank of a new fish tank hobbyist or the aquarium of a seasoned tropical fish keeper, aquatic plants play an important role in the home aquarium ... Fish Benefit from Healthy Aquatic Plants ... Fish also love aquatic plants because they provide places to hide and breed. (Suite101.com)
Murky Waters Mar 28, 2009
More than 500 species of aquatic plants, fish and invertebrates have been found in the river. There are at least 39 mussel and 84 fish species in the river. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Water fight in Plymouth Mar 14, 2009
Results of an ongoing water-monitoring study conducted since the plant opened in 2002 show nutrient levels in the Eel River have risen, along with algae and aquatic plants, the association said. The studio's plan involves extending a pipe from the plant to connect not only the studio complex, but two secondary schools, a golf course and recreation facility, and some private homes, all of which now rely on septic systems. (Boston Globe)
Phosphorous and our water Feb 24, 2009
That's where we're at with a lot of our lakes - lots of aquatic plants, little fish activity, low oxygen supply until you reach a (eutrophic) point where the lake's dead. early decline is quite steep. (Dowagiac News, MI)
A Class of Their Own Feb 23, 2009
On a recent day, the youngest children gathered around the small pond in Helmer's backyard, collecting water samples and aquatic plants for study. In the former living room, an older group struggled with the intricacies of urban planning -- where to put the power plants, whether to build a highway, how big to make the municipal hospital -- by playing a complex computer game called SimCity 2000 on the school's five new Macintoshes. (Time.com)
Nutrient pollution chokes marine and freshwater ecosystems Feb 20, 2009
Human activities have greatly increased the abundance of these nutrients, causing the overproduction of aquatic plants and algae. Nitrogen pollution is largely derived from agricultural fertilizers and emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. (EurekAlert!)
Good news, for now, for Wequaquet Lake Feb 17, 2009
We had that concern because [the original] study found the pond squarely in the mesotrophic [middle of the road] range, said Barnstable Conservation Administrator Rob Gatewood, adding that increased reports of algae blooms and nuisance aquatic plants also was concerning. We were pleased, encouraged by portions of the new report that found no water quality impairment of the lake. (Yarmouth Register, MA)
Submerged Plants as Natural Water P... Feb 17, 2009
Aquatic plants are important to the water garden or pond both in beauty and in function. These submerged plants are called "oxygenators" because they add oxygen to the water garden during the day and absorb carbon dioxide during the night. (Suite101.com)
