Op ed in the Onion Leader today. Milfoil is a lake weed, grows rapidly and can choke a lake to the point where you cannot swim in it, canoe in it, or fish in it. They described it as "invasive species" which is evil. The writer was pleading for more state money for Milfoil control.
Trouble is, the control measures amount to hiring divers to go down and pull up the weed by hand. Ow. My aching back. That sounds worse than pulling up dandelions by hand, only under water. And divers don't come cheap. I can see why the anti Milfoil crusaders are begging for more funding. There ain't enough money in the entire state of New Hampshire to pull up lakeweed by hand from underwater.
Somebody has to find an animal that eats Milfoil, or a herbicide, or a disease that attacks it, or something practical. Until then, forget it.
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