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October 5, 2018, Adirondack Explorer | Having gathered support from all the municipalities in the Lake George watershed and studied the issue while collecting data for the past three years, The FUND for Lake George is hoping for a 50 percent cut in road salt use there by 2020.
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September 28, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | A new regional Welcome Center, as all interstate rest areas in New York are now labelled, is now open.
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September 2018, The Hague Chronicle | Our Lake George Waterkeeper, Chris Navitsky, attended the Adirondack Lakes Alliance Conference on August 8, 2018 at Paul Smith's College on salt contamination.
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September 14, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | The Lake George Park Commission’s annual lake-wide invasive species survey, conducted with volunteers over a course of four days in August, found a colony of Asian clams entrenched across a 20-acre site at the mouth of Hague Brook. It is now one of 24 known sites in Lake George infested with Asian clams.
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September 14, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | Lake George, unlike the other eleven upstate New York lakes eligible for funding under a new $65 million program announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo last winter, has never experienced toxic algae, which can endanger critical sources of drinking water as well as local, tourist-driven economies.
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September 10, 2018, The Post-Star | Read about the Skaneateles Lake Association’s initial outreach early this Spring to facilitate a working relationship with The FUND for Lake George and the Jefferson Project for the benefit of both Skaneateles Lake and Lake George.
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September 9, 2018, The Post-Star | Milfoil are rooted plants with whorled leaves that can form dense canopies, blocking out light for other native plants, according to the federally sponsored Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force. They can choke out water bodies, restricting swimming, boating and even clogging water intake pipes.
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September 9, 2018, The Post-Star | Toxic algal blooms have been reported in more than 80 lakes and ponds across New York state.
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September 7, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | This year’s King George Fishing Derby, an annual benefit for lake protection efforts, will take place on September 15 and 16.
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September 7, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | The Lake George Park Commission’s annual lake-wide invasive species survey, conducted with volunteers over a course of four days in August, found new populations of Asian clams, the Commission reports.
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September 7, 2018, The Lake George Mirror | The Leeming Jelliffe Preserve, an upland bluff at Huletts Landing protected by the Lake George Land Conservancy. According to the Conservancy, the opening of the preserve’s trails “launches a larger campaign to provide further protection of the ridgelines and stream corridors within the Huletts Landing area.”
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September 6, 2018, The Post-Star | Two Hague residents and a Round Lake resident were named to the Nature Conservancy’s Adirondack Chapter board of trustees.
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August 27, 2018, Spectrum News | In 2013, the FUND for Lake George came together with IBM and RPI to create a sophisticated network of sensors designed to understand -- and therefore preserve -- the lake.
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August 27, 2018, The Post-Star | A new recycling boat decontamination station in Severance, a hamlet in Schroon, has already proven its worth and more, saving Schroon Lake from an infestation of invasive zebra mussels this summer.
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August 24, 2018, Syracuse.com | A robotic buoy bristling with scientific instruments has joined the fight against toxic algae in Skaneateles Lake.
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