...samples from Stormy Lake to a company that makes Fluridone. Morton said the group hopes to be applying some sort of a chemical treatment to the lakes by July.Refuge management has provided $40,000 to the effort, which could be used to treat both...
...chosen after Fish and Game held public scoping meetings last spring. The options ranged from netting the area to chemical treatment, Massengill said. They felt Rotenone was cost effective, the best chance at success and the safest method for...
...and bad points." Massengill said there are two options that would be preferable: draining the lake or using a chemical treatment called Rotenone, which would be the cheapest option at $250,000. Rotenone is a chemical used for fish populations...
...grayling into the lake two years after it received a chemical treatment. Later in the day, the department released 1...local wildlife appear largely unaffected by the chemical treatment. Two loons have lived on the lake for three straight...
...not known how big the facility will be, nor the type of structure. It could be anything from a holding pond to a chemical treatment plant, Parrott said. The dollar figure is an estimate at this point, Parrott said, and does not necessarily...
...to treat two more lakes. Scout Lake just east of Soldotna and Sand Lake in Anchorage are both being considered. Chemical treatment is not something that is taken lightly, though. Part of the process for obtaining the authorizations to treat...
...concerns regarding northern pike and to "hear from landowners and others ... if support exists" for a rotenone chemical treatment of Denise Lake, the meeting featured Fish and Game personnel presenting their decision to proceed with the rotenone...
...Peninsula lakes are infested with pike, not including Scout and Arc. The department claims that gill suffocating chemical treatments eliminated the predator present in those lakes. Begich said that he will investigate more infestation claims this...
...takes pretty extreme actions. For relatively small lakes or reservoirs, the general practice has been to use a chemical treatment of a piscicide such as rotenone, or to drain the lake. The most difficult part of these actions is typically the...
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