Do Your Part to Keep Invasive Species out of Pelican Lake!

TRAINED SERVICE PROFESSIONALS

Do your part to keep invasive species out of Pelican Lake! Use only trained professionals for contracted dock/lift installation and boat delivery on the storage companies or rental trailer. Your contracted professional probably also works in Gull Lake and/or other infested lakes. If your professional is not on this list tell them they must attend the next AIS seminar and send an e-mail with their contact information to Clyde Clement at darclyde@tds.net.

The list of trained service professionals is now managed by Minnesota Waters. Please click here to make sure your professional is trained. link: http://www.minnesotawaters.org/content/aquatic-invasive-species-training



Pelican Lakes are at a high-risk for infection. We have infested waters surrounding us:

• Gull Lake is 10 miles away: Zebra Mussels
• Ossawinnamakee is 1/2 mile away: Zebra mussles and Eurasian water milfoil
• Kimball is 3 miles away: Eurasian water milfoil
• Rice Lake/Mississippi River is 15 miles away: Zebra mussles
• Mission Lake is 3 miles away: Eurasian water milfoil
• Lake Mille Lacs: Zebra mussels, spiny water flea
• Bay Lake: Eurasian water milfoil

Once we have an infestation – it's too late. There's no good option to eliminate the curly leaf pondweed we already have. Eurasian water milfoil, zebra mussels, and spiny water fleas would be devastating and can't be removed once they are in our lake.

What can you do?

• Use only trained service professionals to install your docks and lifts. See the attached list.
• Do not use rented equipment (e.g. pontoon trailer) that has not been properly cleaned using the instructions on the pages that follow.
• Let a board member know of any event (e.g. fishing tournament, regatta) that is planned for the lake, provide a contact person and the date of the event so we can educate the participants before they arrive.
• Spread the word – to your guests, friends, and neighbors.
• Volunteer your time to monitor boat landings or to manage the volunteers.

LEARN MORE ABOUT IT The Department of Natural Resources has consolidated information at: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/index.html
The Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers site is sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and the U.S. Coast Guard: http://www.protectyourwaters.net/

PREVENT THE SPREAD
(source: http://www.protectyourwaters.net/prevention/prevention_generic.php#3)

Remove all visible mud, plants, fish/animals.
Before leaving any body of water, it is important to examine all your equipment, boats, trailers, clothing, boots, buckets etc and:

• Remove any visible plants, fish or animals.
• Remove mud and dirt since it too may contain a hitchhiker.*
• Remove even plant fragments as they may contain a hitchhiker.*
• Do not transport any potential hitchhiker, even back to your home. Remove and leave them at the site you visited.

*The larvae (immature form) of an animal can be so tiny that you cannot see it. However, it can live in mud, dirt, sand, and on plant fragments.

Do not release or put plants, fish or animals into a body of water unless they came out of that body of water.
Whether you have obtained bait at a store or from another body of water, do not release unused bait into the waters you are fishing. If you do not plan to use the bait in the future, dump the bait in a trashcan or on the land, far enough away from the water that it cannot impact the lake. Eliminate water from all equipment before transporting anywhere. Much of the recreational equipment used in water contains many spots where water can collect and potentially harbor these aquatic hitchhikers. Thus, make sure that you:

• Eliminate all water from every conceivable item before you leave the area you are visiting.
• Remove water from motors, jet drives, live wells, boat hulls, scuba tanks and regulators, boots, waders, bait buckets, seaplane floats, swimming floats.
• Once water is eliminated, follow the cleaning instructions listed below.

Clean and dry anything that came in contact with the water.
(boats, trailers, equipment, dogs, boots, clothing, etc.). Basic procedures include:

1. Use hot (< 40° C or 104° F) or salt water to clean your equipment.
2. Wash your dog with water as warm as possible and brush its coat.
3. The following recipes are recommended for cleaning hard-to-treat equipment that cannot be exposed to hot water:
1. Dipping equipment into 100% vinegar for 20 minutes will kill harmful aquatic hitchhiker species.
2. 1 % table salt solution for 24 hours can replace the vinegar dip. This table provides correct mixtures for the 1 % salt solution in water:



Gallons of Water	Cups of Salt
5	2/3
10	1 1/4
25	3
50	6 1/4
100	12 2/3

4. If hot water is not available, spray equipment such as boats, motors, trailers, anchors, decoys, floats, nets, with high-pressure water.
5. DRY Equipment. If possible, allow for 5 days of drying time before entering new waters.

New Non-Native Species of Aquatic Plant Found July 2007
On July 12, 2007 DNR Ecological Recourses Dan Swanson and Ben Burggraff met with Rick Johnson and Clyde Clement concerning aquatic plant growth and invasive species. They discussed aquatic plants for about one hour at Munchies restaurant near Breezy Point Resort. After the meeting the four spent some time in the boat identifying aquatic vegetation near Breezy Point. Dan and Ben showedClyde and Rick some of the native aquatic plants that were growing near the public access. Dan and Ben completed the Pelican lake and Little Pelican lake public access survey of aquatic plants on July 12, 2007. Click below for the report and pictures.

• 2007 Pelican Lake Public Access Aquatic Plant Survey


• PLA President Joan Mondale's newsletter article on CLP


• Minnesota DNR website page for curlyleaf Pondweed