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August 2009

Calling all Paddlers ~ Please send in your surveys!

LCC and the University of Vermont are collaborating on a recreational study for the Lake Champlain Paddlers Trail. Surveys were sent this summer to all LCC members who receive our annual Paddlers’ Trail guidebook. Thanks to everyone who has…

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Lake Champlain Algae

LCC volunteers have been hard at work collecting water samples to identify algae blooms around Lake Champlain.  This summer has been relatively quiet.   The thick pervasive bloom often seen in the lake’s northeastern bays has been less prevalent than…

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Loon Monitoring on the Lake

If you see lights out on Lake Champlain in the next few weeks it’s probably not UFOs. The Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program will be conducting night time surveys of loons on Lake Champlain. Researchers have found that going out at night with…

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Missisquoi River Muskie Restoration Efforts

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department gave its recently-established muskellunge restoration effort a boost in August when it stocked 250 four-month old muskellunge in the Missisquoi River Delta. The fish were donated by the New York State Department…

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Lake Look ~ The Chazy Reef

Imagine sitting in a lounge chair with your feet in the water looking out over a tropical sea. The sun blazes away and the reefs around you teem with life. There was a time, nearly half a billion years ago, when the area we now call Lake Champlain…

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Nature Note: Dragonflies and Damselflies

Their names can evoke spine-chilling fear - bog haunter, pond hawk, shadow dragon, widow skimmer - or elfin magic - jewel wing, aurora dancer, sedge sprite. They are the subject of old wives tales about sewn lips of misbehaved children or their…

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