Vermont
Hand-harvesting an invasive weed in Vermont
COLCHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) – The U.S. Military Corps of Engineers is working to get an invasive weed out of the Sandbar Wildlife Administration Space.
Assist workers visited a number of tasks within the Lake Champlain basin the place completely different methods are getting used to enhance water high quality and forestall the unfold of aquatic invasive species. That features hand-harvesting water chestnuts which they attain by kayaks and canoes.
“We test our naturalist residents who’re reporting aquatic invasive species. We’ve discovered that somebody had reported this and we instantly got here out and appeared and did certainly discover a number of thousand vegetation of water chestnut all through the Wildlife Administration Space,” stated Kimberly Jensen of the Vermont Environmental Conservation Division.
For greater than 20 years the Military Corps of Engineers has supplied monetary help for tasks controlling aquatic vegetation within the lake.
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