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SEPT 2007 5 Blue-Green Blues: Toxic Cyanobacteria in Washington by Jean Jacoby A L P A T h e W ashington State Lake Protection Association Newslette r W WATERLINE SEPTEMBER 2007 Join Us For Our 20th Annual Conference! In This Issue WALPA brings community and science What WALPA Can together at Lake Chelan Do For You ........................ 3 It’s that time of year again – time to plan your trip to the WALPA conference! To help celebrate this year’s 20th annual conference, we will convene at Campbell’s Resort on Lake Chelan. WALPA will host Freshwater Mussels its members on October 18th and 19th for two days of lake-relevant Face Challenges ................ 4 presentations and networking. Come hear the Meet WALPA’s 2008 fantastic talks we’ve got lined up! Session topics Board Candidates ............. 5 will range from nutrient legislation to volunteer Blue-Green Blues: programs and community Toxic Cyanobacteria efforts to blue-green algae and climate change. in Washington .................. 6 The biggest news about this year’s conference is Focus on Redfish that it is now a sanctioned Lake, Idaho ................ cover continuing education event for holders of a Washington Pesticide and Herbicide Applicator license. The Washington State REGISTER NOW! Department of Agriculture has qualified WALPA to WALPA Conference Quick Facts: grant two recertification • Register at www.walpa.org or contact credits to members who Beth Cullen at [email protected]. attend sessions 1B (Noxious Register before September 14th and get WATERLINE is the newsletter Weeds and Animals) and a discount! of the Washington State Lake 3B (Volunteer Programs) on • NEW! Attendees can receive two Protection Assoc. (WALPA). Send Thursday. Be sure to attend continuing education credits through submissions to Polly Freeman at those sessions to get two the Washington State Department of [email protected] recertification credits! Agriculture. To get the credits, attend Articles may be reproduced. The plenary session Session 1-B (Noxious Weeds and Animals) Please credit WATERLINE. conferences will focus on why nutrients cause on Thursday morning AND Session 3- For information about issues on lakes and what B (Volunteer Programs) on Thursday the organization, call kind of legislation can afternoon. 1-800-607-5498 help us figure it out. • If you can’t make the conference, or visit the WALPA website Senator Ken Jacobsen, share your research or project with a www.walpa.org plenary speaker, will guide poster. Contact Bijay Adams at bijay@ us through the process libertylake.org for more information. Please save WATERLINE issues of creating legislation. • Check out the conference program online for future reference. 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Formed in 1986, 20 Annual Conference WALPA continues to build relationships between Continued from front government agencies, citizens, the scientific community, and lakeside residents. WALPA serves as an excellent our discussion of the plight of native freshwater resource on lake topics and can help you reach mussels in Washington, for which we have teamed up professionals or organizations knowledgeable about with the Pacific Northwest Native Freshwater Mussel most lake issues. Workgroup. In the closing session, we’ll discuss WALPA is the local chapter of the North American climate change and its effects on lakes – guaranteed to Lake Management Society (NALMS), which supports be a lively and informative finale. the management and protection of lakes and watersheds For more information and registration forms, please internationally. WALPA supports and carries out go to our website at www.walpa.org You may also the mission of NALMS in Washington, and actively contact Beth Cullen at (206) 263-6242 for information participates in legislation related to lake issues. WALPA or questions. See you in Chelan this October! can keep you informed about upcoming legislation on lake and water quality topics. As an organization, WALPA promotes legislation that will further protect and enhance lake systems. forged partnerships among stakeholders, and helped WALPA’s annual conference is designed for anyone guide state policy on lake issues. We encourage anyone who wants to learn more about lakes and their ever- who would like to get involved in lake and watershed changing systems. The conference brings lakeside protection to join WALPA. As our organization grows, residents, enthusiasts, policymakers, and scientists we strengthen our ability to protect and manage our together to discuss lake issues face to face. lakes and watersheds. Since forming in 1986, WALPA and its dedicated For more about WALPA’s current projects, log on to members have provided education and outreach, www.walpa.org. Advertising lake-related products or services in this newsletter does not imply endorsement by WALPA or any of its officers. NEW LAKE MAPPING SERVICES CABELA’S PARTNERS WITH CLEAN LAKES, INC. Clean Lakes, Inc. is proud to announce that they have been selected by Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter, as the exclusive Lake Mapping Partner of Cabela’s Trophy Properties in parts of Idaho, Washington and California. Full enjoyment of your lake or pond requires an understanding of the aquatic resource. It is critical to know the exact acreage and depths of your lake to make the right management decisions — fish species selection, stocking densities, placement of structure, aquatic vegetation management, waterfowl habitat, etc. Our 3D model of your lake will provide the information you need to maximize your aquatic resource. For more than 46 years, Cabela’s has helped sportsmen and women get the most from their outdoor pursuits. Now, Cabela’s Trophy Properties™ unique Lake Mapping Service provides the detailed, accurate information you need to maximize your lake’s potential. In partnership with the nation’s leading aquatic experts, Cabela’s provides the facts at a reasonable price. Using specialized equipment, local qualified technicians collect data in the field, which is then analyzed and processed by Cabela’s mapping professionals. You can choose to receive various formats of maps, including high-quality printed maps or 3D fly-through versions of your lake on a DVD. Clean Lakes, Inc. invites you to visit the Cabela’s Trophy Properties website at www.CabelasTrophyProperties.com. If you are a lake or pond owner or manager and want to know about the services available to you through this program you can call Clean Lakes, Inc. at 1-208-665-1475 or email us at [email protected]. P. O. Box 3548, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816 Phone: 208-665-1475 Fax: 208-665-1479 Washington’s Freshwater Mussels Important and little-known species face critical challenges While mussels are usually thought of as marine impacts to their environment over time. Individually animals, Washington is home to at least six freshwater and collectively, these mussels are important indicators mussel species. Just like their marine counterparts, of ecosystem health and changes. these little known mollusks are critical to their Freshwater mussels are highly endangered; many ecosystems. Unfortunately, habitat loss and other populations face an uncertain future. Logging and changes associated with human encroachment may be development, which bring dams and sedimentation, endangering our state’s mussel species, which could have degraded their habitat and depleted their have widespread repercussions. numbers. Dwindling populations of salmonids and Four of the six freshwater species in Washington other fish probably also contribute to the decline of belong to the genus Anodonta including the California species like M. falcata who depend on them as hosts. floater (A. californiensis), Winged floater (A. nuttalliana), In addition, the greater filtration rates and simpler Oregon floater (A. oregonensis) and Western floater reproduction strategies of invasive species like (A. kennerlyi). These thin-shelled mussels prefer still zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and Asian clams or slow moving water and are commonly found in (Corbicula fluminea) mean they can out-compete our lakes and slow moving rivers. The western ridged native freshwater mussels. Development, dwindling mussel (Gonidea angulata) and the western pearlshell fish populations and invasive species all threaten the (Margaritifera falcata) prefer moving water and usually mussels’ survival; as we know, conserving a species inhabit streams and rivers. often means protecting its ecosystem.
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