Aquatic Ecosystem Health: Scientists removed more than 70% of underwater logs from one half of a Wisconsin lake; within 2 years its once-dominant yellow perch population had nearly disappeared
The study was conducted in Little Rock Lake, an 18-hectare undeveloped, unfished lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin. A large curtain divides the lake into 2 similar basins. From the surface a lake might look like it is not changing at all but underneath it is a very different story. Scientists demonstrated how important fallen trees…
