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Indiana Boy Scout Troops 151 and 153
CREATING FISH HABITAT
for AUGUSTA LAKE |
December 9, 2000
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Dan Carnahan, on the right, instructs scouts from Scout
Troop 153, Winslow
Indiana, as to the importance of fish
structures. Mr.
Carnahan is the Fishery Biologist for the Indiana Department of Natural
Resources - District 7, which encompasses 10 counties in the southwest
corner of the State, and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin -
Stevens Point. Scout leader Mike Meyer, in the background, works at
Sugar Ridge Fish and Wildlife Area. |
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Boy Scouts from Troop 151 and Troop 153 construct fish
habitat for Augusta Lake. |
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Materials include cut trees, five gallon plastic buckets,
and quick setting concrete. The assembly point was the dam for Augusta
Lake. |
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Quick setting concrete is added to the bucket, along with
small portions of lake water. Mr. Carnahan demonstrates that stirring
creates a unIAOrm mixture for good results. |
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Trees no more than 15 feet in height were cut and placed
in five gallon buckets. The trees were taken from the face of the dam. |
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The structures were dropped into an end-cut lake on
December 11, 2000 (a
sub-unit of the larger lake) that is devoid of any structural habitat
for fish. Water quality in this end-cut lake has improved such that a
school of minnows (washed in from a nearby good lake) is thriving. The
structures will create excellent fish conditions when the former dead
lake is stocked. |
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Thirty fish structures were made by the scouts in less
than two hours on this cold, sunny day. Chuck Froehle, Scout Leader for
Troop 151, is on the left. |
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