In Martin County: Anti-invasives plan OK’d

FAIRMONT — Martin County commissioners on Tuesday heard from Dustin Benes of the Martin Soil and Water Conservation District. He provided an update on the Aquatic Invasive Species prevention plan, which the board approved for 2020. Benes shared the how and why behind...

Donors support plan against invasive plant species

Supporters of lake environmental protection are getting behind the latest strategy for combating a new invasive plant species in Geneva Lake. The Geneva Lake Environmental Agency has raised about $50,000 in private donations for its battle against starry stonewort, an...

Analysis: What’s going on in Lake Scugog?

It doesn’t take Chris Hockley long before he’s pulled his first bass aboard the boat. Casting onto a patch of weeds so thick it looks like a greenish-yellow carpet, Hockley reels in his frog-like lure across the jungle of weeds, slooooooowly and then...