Some shoreline residents of Duck Lake, Michigan aren’t keen on the continued use of chemicals to treat invasive aquatic plants for fear of unintended consequences.
Green Lake Township has for years collected a special assessment tax to pay for Eurasian watermilfoil treatments in Duck Lake, an effort to keep the species’s signature mats of floating vegetation from building up. But not every lakeshore resident thinks it’s worth the trade-off, given other plant species are now gone and certain algae have appeared.