2017 Adirondack Aquatic Invasive Invasive Reponse Team Report Sean Regalado, Lindsey Pett, Peter Murphy, Nathaniel Wells ND IRO AC D K A Table of Contents Acknowledgements...............................................................................................1 Introduction.......................................................................................................2 Objective.........................................................................................................3-4 Methods.......................................................................................................5-6 Results........................................................................................................7-8 Community Matrix..........................................................................................................9 Management..........................................................................................................10 Data limitations...........................................................................................................11 Estimates of Survey Comprehensiveness...........................................................................12-13 Literature Cited...........................................................................................................14 Aquatic Plant Maps Buck Pond...................................................................................................................16 Chazy Lake..............................................................................................................17-18 Clear Pond..................................................................................................................19 Cooperas Pond..............................................................................................................20 Cranberry Lake.........................................................................................................21-24 Davis Lake...................................................................................................................25 Duck Pond...................................................................................................................26 East Pine Pond..............................................................................................................27 Fern Lake...................................................................................................................28 Floodwood Pond............................................................................................................29 Follensby Clear Pond......................................................................................................30 Franklin Falls Flow.....................................................................................................31-32 Green Pond.................................................................................................................33 Hoel Pond...................................................................................................................34 Jones Pond..................................................................................................................35 Kiwassa Lake................................................................................................................36 Lake Alice...................................................................................................................37 Lake Flower.................................................................................................................38 Lake Kushaqua.............................................................................................................39 Lake Ozonia.............................................................................................................40-41 Lake Placid..................................................................................................................42 Little Clear Pond...........................................................................................................43 Little Green Pond..........................................................................................................44 Long Pond...................................................................................................................45 Lower Saranac Lake...................................................................................................46-49 Meacham Lake..............................................................................................................50 Middle Saranac Lake...................................................................................................51-52 Minerva Lake...............................................................................................................53 Mirror Lake..................................................................................................................54 Moose Pond.................................................................................................................55 Mountain Pond..............................................................................................................56 Oseetah Lake...........................................................................................................57-58 Patterson Reservoir........................................................................................................59 Pink Pond....................................................................................................................60 Polliwog Pond...............................................................................................................61 Rollins Pond.................................................................................................................62 Second Pond................................................................................................................63 Silver Lake..................................................................................................................64 Slang Pond..................................................................................................................65 Spectacle Pond.............................................................................................................66 Spitfire Lake................................................................................................................67 Taylor Pond.................................................................................................................68 Turtle Pond..................................................................................................................69 Union Falls Reservoir...................................................................................................70-71 Upper St. Regis Lake...................................................................................................72-73 Whey Pond..................................................................................................................74 Acknowledgements The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) is one of eight Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) in New York State whose mission is to protect the Adirondack region from the negative impacts of invasive species. The Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI) is a program of Paul Smith’s College that conducts work to protect and conserve water resources of the Adirondack Park. The narrative, data, and results presented in this report were synthesized by Sean Regalado, Lindsey Pett, Peter Murphy, and Nathaniel Wells who constituted APIPP’s Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Regional Response Team in 2017. These individuals also conducted the aquatic plant surveys and performed the spatial analysis needed to develop the lake maps featured in this report. Project planning and lake prioritization was conducted by Erin Vennie-Vollrath, APIPP’s AIS Project Coordinator, Dr. Daniel L. Kelting, AWI Executive Director, and Sean Regalado, Response Team Lead. Field work and reporting was conducted with the assitance of Dr. Kelting and under the additional supervision of Dr. Corey Laxson, AWI Research Associate. This project was advanced by APIPP, under contract with AWI, with funding provided by New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund. Page 1 Introduction Aquatic invasive species (AIS) induce negative ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems and local economies (Gallardo et al. 2016; Walsh et al. 2016). In attempts to reduce these impacts, government and private entities at multiple scales have implemented AIS spread prevention and early detection efforts (Vander Zanden et al. 2010). APIPP and AWI, in collaboration with multiple partner organizations, utilize state, federal, and private funds to implement AIS prevention, early detection and rapid response strategies across the entire Adirondack PRISM. Since 2015, APIPP has contracted with AWI to deploy AIS response teams in the PRISM. In order to balance resources and increase efficiency, the PRISM was broken into three regions based on watershed boundaries (Fig. 1). One region received survey focus each year to facilitate survey of the entire PRISM on a three-year rotation. Region 1 (Upper Hudson, Sacandaga, Mohawk, and Southern Champlain watersheds) was surveyed in 2015, Region 2 (Black, Oswegatchie, Grass and Raquette watersheds) was surveyed in 2016, and Region 3 (St. Regis, Salmon, Chateaugay,