Clean up the boat!  

Don't bring invasives into our lake!  During the summer of 2007 our Lake Stewards helped to inform boaters about milfoil and how they could help to protect our lake. A total of 69 volunteers spent 542 hours, checked 1,478 boats and spoke to 3,778 boaters.  With some minor changes the program continued in the summer of 2008. 

How It Gets Here  

The stems of milfoil break apart (senesce) easily and each plantlet can drift around and eventually sink to the bottom where it becomes rooted.  Floating pieces of milfoil can easily become caught on boat trailers and boat propellers so that milfoil can be carried from one water body to another.  Perhaps the most important function of our volunteers was to hand out educational materials on milfoil and other invasives.   While they did this they also looked for milfoil on incoming boats and trailers.  Some launch ramps have installed wash stations for boaters but the problems with effective washing and disposal of material make visual inspection a better alternative for milfoil spotting.

For more information, see our Eurasian Watermilfoil page.