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Tom Luciano on the Starbuckville Dam
Tom Luciano, Chairman and Commissioner of the Schroon Lake Park District, was the guest speaker at ESSLA’s June member meeting. He gave us a history of the dam, which is owned…
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ESSLA in Action: Floating Classroom
A boatful of passengers set sail from the Word of Life dock for a three-hour tour of Schroon Lake on ESSLA’s Floating Classroom on Wednesday, July 11. Their knowledgeable and…
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Make a Splash for Schroon and Join ESSLA!
Summer is here and Schroon Lake is beautiful. Will it stay that way? That is up to you and me. Protecting our lake, river and watershed is a job…
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Off the Rails: Railcar Storage Controversy Update
The Iowa Pacific Railroad appears to be running off the rails in the Adirondack Park. Iowa Pacific leases tracks between Corinth and North Creek from Warren County to…
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Lake Steward Funding for 2019 and Beyond
The grant currently funding boat stewards at Horicon launch runs out this year. BY STEPHEN EHLERS For the past three years ESSLA has been the…
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9 Steps to Living Lake Friendly
A healthy lake is like mom and homemade apple pie. We all love them. Our lake deserves the love too, and keeping a lake healthy is the responsibility of…
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3 Questions with Jim Lieberum
In each issue of The Pearl we pose three questions to an ESSLA partner in protecting the Schroon Lake watershed. This time it’s Jim Lieberum, District Manager for the…
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Don’t Move a Mussel: Boat Stewards Save Schroon Lake From Invasive Species
By Gary Karl Boat stewards intercepted boats carrying five different aquatic invasive species (AIS) before they entered the Schroon Lake watershed during the 2017 boating season. The Town of Horicon’s stewards…
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My Gut Reaction to Roundup
By Rich Seegal, Ph.D. My gut level reaction is not solely due to being absolutely ticked off at Monsanto for their decades of Fake News stating that Roundup (RU) is…
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Denying the Obvious
By Gary L. Karl ESSLA does everything we can to keep invasive species (IS) out of the Schroon Lake watershed. We support boat inspections and washes to keep aquatic IS like…
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