Rhode Island Beach Access Debate Highlights Rights to Walk Fish and Collect Seaweed

/ Published in Lake & Waterway Management, Resources
Beachfront Property
The issue of beach access is ever present in Rhode Island, but has taken on renewed prominence in the last few years, due at least in some part to a man’s arrest in June 2019. He was collecting seaweed on the beach just east of Charlestown Town Beach. Beachfront property owners had hired a security

Donations Help Fund Weed Harvesting and Lake Maintenance at Public Boat Launches

/ Published in Aquatic Plant Management, Lake & Waterway Management
Mechanical Weed Harvester in Wisconsin
A public boat launch doesn’t necessarily make access to a lake free. There are costs involved in keeping the waters weed free, navigable for recreation and stocked with fish. McDill Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District’s president Krista Olson asks people visiting any lake to utlize the donation boxes. Those donations are very important for

Study Finds Strategic Weed Harvesting Can Remove Phosphorus and Support Clear Lake Management

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Aquatic Plant Harvester Removing Weeds
Intensive in-lake and watershed management caused Kohlman Lake, the northernmost lake in the Phalen Chain of Lakes in Minnesota, to go from a relatively turbid to a clear water state. Aquatic plants responded to the clean waters by growing up to the surface. The change in lake state and a comprehensive water quality monitoring dataset