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The 'Shed Sheet The ‘Shed Sheet Cleaner Water Through Conservation Newsletter of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy – Summer 2018 Issue Starve The Algae! Save The Lake! Starving Lake Algae Starts With Your Yard There is a growing epidemic of harmful algae blooms, or HABs, in lakes across the United States, and Chautauqua Lake is no exception. In addition to being disruptive to recreational activities such as swimming, boating and fishing, blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) can pose a significant health risk to lake users and neighbors. These blooms can also have a negative impact on local tourism and economies. Earlier this year, CWC launched an initiative, its Starve the Algae! Save the Lake! program, to help combat these blooms in Chautauqua Lake. The program aims to reduce and prevent nutrients and sediment from entering Chautauqua Lake and its tributaries by working with area landowners to implement better land management practices. (These same nutrients and sediments are also contributing factors in the excessive aquatic plant growth in the lake.) More specifically, CWC is identifying lakeshore and tributary sites where lawns and crops are being cultivated to the top of the bank, and where cattle and pastures are contributing to pollution, and contacting those landowners to explore options to stop the pollution. CWC is also seeking conservation easements or full ownership of stream corridors and lakeshore buffer zones as a means to permanently restore and protect these sites from incompatible, pollution-generating land uses. Algae bloom on Chautauqua Lake (CWC photo) Even if you are not a shoreline property owner, how you maintain and manage your property can still have an impact on harmful algae blooms in the lake, even if your yard is located miles away from the lake itself. To find out how you as an individual can help reduce and prevent these blooms, turn to Page 9. CWC Expands Its Preserve System Two generous landowners recently donated more than 20 acres to CWC! The first, a half- acre of wetlands in the Town of Chautauqua at the tip of Whitney Point donated by Wendy Jo Culver, expands the Prendergast Creek Wetland Preserve and conserves an additional 250 feet of ecologically-valuable lakeshore wetland. CWC now owns both banks of the former (southerly) channel of Prendergast Creek. The second donation (21 acres), from Dennis J. Galucki and Barbara D. Mierzwa, is on Sea Lion Drive, just east of Mayville close to where Big Inlet Creek enters Chautauqua Lake. This property is almost entirely wetland, with large areas of open water and a small wetland stream on site as well. The Galucki wetlands at Chautauqua Lake’s Big Inlet range from a hemlock swamp to marshy areas, and based on a recent preliminary botanical inventory, the property has a healthy plant community. And, given the froggy chorus that erupted when our lands manager and preserve foreman recently explored the site, it is clearly of great importance to local amphibians as well. It is Mr. Galucki’s intent for CWC to create unique educational opportunities at this site, so look for future improvements on this property as part of our (photo by Gateways to Nature initiative, which has been generously funded by the Cummins Foundation, Jonathan Townsend) with help from volunteers from the Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant. This issue of The ‘Shed Sheet has been partially funded with a grant from the Rockwell Foundation. Message From The Executive Director CWC is Investing in Permanent Actions to Address Lake Challenges 413 North Main Street The scenic and bountiful waterways, forests and fields Jamestown, NY 14701 of the Chautauqua region are what make it a special 716.664.2166 [email protected] place to live and visit. Healthy waterways in particular www.chautauquawatershed.org are an essential component of the region’s economy and quality of life. No one wants to live on or drive to Officers a lake and find it unusable! Chautauqua Lake’s current Lyle T. Hajdu, President algae and plant problems and controversies stem from Linda M. Barber, Vice President historical and continuing lake-damaging land use prac- Judith F. Maskrey, Secretary tices in its watershed. Harmful algae blooms and heavy Donald F. Kimmel, Treasurer exotic, invasive plant growth are symptoms of an over- Douglas M. Larson, Past President exploited, unprotected lake. John Jablonski III Board of Directors The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy was established in 1990 with the Theodore C. First mission to preserve and enhance the water quality, scenic beauty and ecologi- Michael E. Jabot cal health of the lakes, streams and watersheds of this region. The CWC has Mary D. Laumer taken a preventive approach to protecting and enhancing Chautauqua Lake Karey M. Lawton and the other lakes and waterways of our region. To date, working with will- Rebecca L. Nystrom Alberto E. Rey ing landowners, CWC has conserved over 1,000 acres of forests, wetlands Craig A. Seger and fields county-wide. CWC’s conservation programs are based on the Paul O. Stage scientific principle that healthy, natural landscapes provide clean water for Jeanne E. Wiebenga healthy lakes, streams and ground waters. CWC’s approaches to conservation Robert F. Wooler and lake management that it has advocated for have not Directors Emeriti “No one wants to live on changed over the last 28 William R. Locke, Past Treasurer years. What has changed is Michael K. Lyons, Past President or drive to a lake and that other organizations and Thomas A. Small, Past Vice President agencies have come to Arthur D. Webster, Past President find it unusable!” implement more and more of the policies and actions Staff CWC has championed all along. CWC has long advocated for watershed land John Jablonski III, Executive Director conservation as an essential tool for lake water quality protection. Public and Jill R. Eklund, Director of Operations private water suppliers around the globe are implementing watershed forest, Jonathan P. Townsend, Lands Manager stream corridor and wetland protection to deliver pure water and minimize Claire G. Quadri, Conservationist water treatment costs. Jennifer L. Nesbitt, Development Coordinator Research shows that urbanization of watersheds leads to more flooding and property damage, declining water quality and detrimental changes to aquatic Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy communities of stream life and gamefish. Trout waters turn into carp waters. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and enhance Muskellunge can no longer reproduce. The spawning areas of gamefish are the water quality, scenic beauty and smothered in mud. Lakes become filled with invasive plants such as milfoil ecological health of the lakes, streams, that thrive on degraded, excessively-sedimented fertile lake bottoms. Over- wetlands and watersheds of the fertilized lakes fill with harmful algae blooms. Herbicides are an essential tool Chautauqua region. for eradicating newly introduced exotic invasive plant species, but they are a stop-gap measure for controlling long-established invasive species. Installing best management practices as part of development can reduce but not stem the decline in water quality associated with the urbanization of watersheds. “Smart growth,” conserving key landscape features, must be the norm and not the exception if we are to slow the decline of our lakes. (continued next page) The ‘Shed Sheet ‐ Page 2 ‐ Summer 2018 (continued from page 2) CWC is pursuing the conservation and restoration of naturally-vegetated buffers along our lake tributaries and lake shorelines to intercept nutrients before they reach our waters and fertilize our lakes. CWC is also pursuing the acquisition of conservation easements and full acquisition of buffer areas to stop incompatible land uses from polluting our streams and causing soil erosion, fueling excessive plant and algae growth in our lakes. We are working with landowners to stop maintain- ing lawns, cropland and pasture along the banks of our tributary streams and lakes – and to acquire legal ownership of these waterfront sites to ensure that incompatible uses cannot be restarted anytime in the future. How important is this? CWC has been acquiring sites for conservation for 23 years. Last year, New York State added a land acquisition public CWC is targeting sites with nutrient and drinking water source protection grant program to its Water Quality erosion problems to restore and permanently Improvement Program. And now in 2018, the State Department of protect their water quality through owner‐ Agriculture and Markets is rolling out a waterfront buffer conservation ship or conservation easements. (CWC photo) easement purchase program for Soil & Water Conservation Districts to implement with landowners, municipalities and land trusts statewide. The State of New York is now strongly advocating these types of initiatives through its Chautauqua Lake Harmful Algae Blooms Action Plan – the same type of initiatives that CWC has been working to implement since its inception! The CWC is working collaboratively with the Chautauqua County Soil & Water Conservation District, Chautauqua County, Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Cassadaga Lakes Association, Ducks Unlimited and other partners to develop and implement stream corridor conservation projects to permanently move cattle and crop cultivation away from streams and to permanently protect and enhance tributary streams, wetlands and forests. CWC is continuing to assist lakefront
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