Maps of Plant Growth in Local Lakes

New Maps of Southern Adirondack Lakes Now Available

 

Each year Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) contracts with a professional crew to survey Adirondack lakes for aquatic invasive species.  In summer 2021, Adirondack Research surveyed and mapped more than fifty lakes in the southern Adirondacks for APIPP.  The full report from Adirondack Research can be found here. Maps for the individual lakes surveyed can be found here.

You can click on the links in the paragraph above, or look at the files below to see the reports on specific local lakes.  Note that Lake Pleasant, Mason Lake, and Scandaga Lake (all in the Town of Lake Pleasant) have some plant growth (shown in green shading), but no invasive plants.  For comparison, the map of Lake Algonquin (in nearby Wells) shows native plant growth and invasive plants (shown in pink and red shading).

     -  Lake Pleasant
     -  Mason Lake
     -  Sacandaga Lake
     -  Lake Algonquin (in Wells, NY)