October 4, 2019 | Article
October 4, 2019, Adirondack Explorer | Lawmakers are working on legislation to address road salt application by state crews, Assemblyman Billy Jones told an audience Thursday at a road salt summit in Lake Placid.
October 4, 2019 | Press Release
October 4, 2019 | Warren County and the Town of Hague have earned the Sustainable Winter Management (SWiM®) Program certification for reducing the use of road salt — and its runoff into Lake George and other waterways — while maintaining safe driving conditions.
October 4, 2019 | Article
October 4, 2019, Lake George Mirror | Thanks in part to The FUND's annual day-long salt conference, designed originally for the property maintenance contractors, highway superintendents and the public
employees responsible for applying de-icing agents to roads, driveways and parking lots, the use of road salt has started to drop in the Lake George watershed. It’s now time to export the Lake George model to communities
throughout the Adirondack Park.
October 4, 2019 | Article
October 4, 2019, Lake George Mirror | At the September 24th Lake George Park Commission meeting in Bolton Landing, Dr. Rick Relyea, director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute and the Jefferson Project, said their goal is to make
Lake George the smartest lake in the world.
October 1, 2019 | Article
October 1, 2019, Saratoga Living | Elizabeth Sobol of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center gives the Jefferson Project at Lake George a much-deserved shout-out in the water-focused feature article.
September 27, 2019 | Article
September 27, 2019, Lake George Mirror | Dan Stec, who represents the Lake George region in the New York State Assembly, has been named co-chairman of the Assembly Republican Conference’s Task Force on Water Quality.
September 26, 2019 | Article
September 26, 2019, The Post Star | The fifth annual salt summit, while traditionally held in Lake George, is being moved to Lake Placid this year in hopes of reaching other municipalities and businesses.
September 24, 2019 | Article
September 24, 2019, The Post Star | The algae collection was a part of The Jefferson Project, a water-quality monitoring and mapping effort carried out by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Fund for Lake George and IBM.
September 23, 2019 | Article
September 20, 2019, Lake George Mirror | Now in its fifth year, the King George Fishing Derby is achieving what its creators intended: a boost in tourism and more funds for invasive species protection.
September 23, 2019 | Article
September 20, 2019, Lake George Mirror | The Lake Champlain Basin Program, a regional collaboration between Vermont, New York and Quebec that funds many Lake George initiatives, such as those controlling the spread of invasive species, will award more than 25 grants totaling more than $500,000 to local organizations, municipalities and educational institutions this year, program officials have announced.
September 22, 2019 | Article
September 22, 2019, The Post Star | The push to land on the moon is often used as an example of what needs to happen now to combat climate change, but a better comparison is with the top-to-bottom effort to win World War II.
September 19, 2019 | Article
September 19, 2019, The Chronicle | Tournament proceeds go to The FUND for Lake George, particularly to battle against invasive species.
September 17, 2019 | Article
September 17, 2019, The Post Star | Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky presented low-impact development guidelines to the Queensbury Town Board at Monday’s workshop meeting. He had suggested they consider incentives to encourage developers to follow low-impact development.
September 15, 2019 | Article
September 15, 2019, The Hague Chronicle | The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) began closing the gates at the Rogers Rock and Mossy Point boat launches on September 6, 2019 to protect the Lake from aquatic invasive species.
September 13, 2019 | Article
September 13, 2019, Lake George Mirror | The fourth annual King George Fishing Derby, an annual benefit for lake protection efforts, opens September 14.
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