Living Land: Big Hollow Lake needs a diet
By Chris Lee Executive Director of Des Moines County Conservation
What happens when you consume more calories than you burn?
What happens when you drink more alcohol than your body can process?
And what happens when you add more nutrients to a lake than it can process?
The first answer is you gain weight. The second is you get drunk. The third is that you get massive algae blooms. What’s constant is that in all the above scenarios is the system is put out of balance.
We can understand weight gain and inebriation pretty easily. Consume too much and your body weight and blood alcohol levels rise. Fix it by consuming less. Maybe forego that second piece of cake or that next drink.
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By Chris Lee Executive Director of Des Moines County Conservation
Recently there’s been some hubbub about the city of Burlington purchasing a shy five acres of land from the school district for a retention pond over by the old James Madison school. As I understand it, the pond is a part of the stormwater project the city will be working on this year, but the purchase had to be fast-tracked due to, of all things, bats.
Yes, bats. Those winged creatures of the night that haunt children’s dreams and which are a staple of Halloween decorations the world over.