ive noticed that the algae blooms are prolific in dry years here , thats when we see them and the news picks up the stories [not that the news is really news anymore] i see it show up in a local story sometimes - particularly when on a lake that has high end homes on it , that always drives the news - money ,
there are a few areas that have been plagued by things caused by pesticides and runoff as there were once farms around all of our local lakes till the development value caught up , there was a chain of lakes - created by daming a rive a few miles from here that had a number of resorts and actually had a cabin/chalet built back in the 60s that was a sweepstakes prize ,
then it had farms all around it and was remote so-to-speak yet close to civilization , it had a mink farm and numerous cattle farms close to or on its shores , i thought to buy or build there in the 80s ,
now it is totally built up and the farms are all but gone , but the side affects of them are evident in these lakes , the environmental wackos attacked the mink farm a bit back and caused the death of nearly 10,000 animals when they let them loose not understanding the minks "culture" , good intentions went astray big time ,
anyway - i no longer visit that chain of lake - used to fish them regularly , there is a second north of us that was always overbuilt with cabins since ive been here , the straight pipe sewers that fed to the lake 20-30 feet offshore took a toll back in the late 80s and they are now fighting to save that one , it also gets drainage from farms ,
one of the big problems is the invasive species - between the millfoil and zebra mussels we are loosing a lot of pristine northern waters very rapidly
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