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BEAT is just starting an invasive species webpage – mainly because we have spent a lot of time trying to help control Eurasian Milfoil in Onota Lake and, more recently, we spent time pulling Water Chestnut<\/a> out of both Pontoosuc and Onota Lakes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Invasive Plant Atlas of New England\u2019s (IPANE)<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0An online database of invasive plants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
USDA Invasive Species for Massachusetts <\/a><\/td>\nWebsite provide lots of good links to more information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Pulling Water Chestnut<\/p>\n

Pontoosuc Lake – August 5, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Onota Lake – August 17, 2007<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
On August 5, 2007 Jane and Bruce Winn from BEAT, Carolyn Sibner from the Housatonic Valley Association<\/a> and Friends of Pontoosuc, and Jenny Hersch pulled Water Chestnut (Trapa natans)<\/em> from Pontoosuc Lake north of Bull Hill Road.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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We arrived at Pontoosuc about 8 am.<\/td>\nHere Jenny and Carolyn start looking near the causeway.<\/td>\nWe didn’t find much near the causeway, so we headed upstream.<\/td>\nWe did find some water chestnut, but according to Carolyn, not as much as the previous year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The sharp, pointy nut of the water chestnut grows below the rosette. You must be careful to grab the rosette from below to avoid having the mature nuts fall off where they could sprout and re-infest the lake.<\/td>\nWater chestnut produces a small white flower.We pulled all the water chestnut that we could find.<\/td>\nLooking north from the lake north of the causeway was a pretty view on this beautiful day.<\/td>\nAnd looking northwest, toward the mountains, was equally spectacular.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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On Friday, August 17, 2007, Jane Winn from BEAT, Carolyn Sibner from the Housatonic Valley Association<\/a>, Jenny Hersch from the Housatonic River Museum, and Bob Race from Lake Onota Preservation Association launched north of Dan Casey Memorial causeway into the relatively small area where Churchill and Daniels Brooks enter Onota Lake. To our surprise, this area had so much water chestnut that we could not pull it all. We will have to come back.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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We hauled out bags and buckets full of water chestnut. In all we had 5 fairly full 45 gallon bags of water chestnut. Bob estimated our total haul conservatively at 150 gallons.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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