Controlling Variable Leaf Milfoil

We are certified through the Adirondack Park Agency and the NYSDEC Volunteer Stewardship Program to manage aquatic invasive species in Raquette Lake using benthic barriers and hand harvesting techniques. RLPF uses these two techniques to help manage Raquette Lake’s only current invasive plant, Variable Leaf Milfoil.

Our management policy for VLM is to prevent it from expanding in the lake and to minimize its impact on recreation and navigation. In the past four years our volunteers have deployed benthic barriers and hand harvested more than 50 acres of VLM along the shores of Raquette Lake and the Marion River. To date, this program has spent $50,000 on this effort which is funded by the Town of Long Lake and RLPF members.

For more background:

• Read a short history of VLM in Raquette Lake.
• View a map showing the general locations of VLM in Raquette Lake.