Drawdown aided milfoil winter kill

DOVER — The deep drawdown of Lake Pend Oreille last winter  helped curb Eurasian milfoil growth, according to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture.

“In the shallow-water areas, we’re not going to have major milfoil issues this year. It looks like the drawdown was pretty effective winter kill with that cold snap we had early on,” Tom Woolf, an aquatic plants program manager ISDA, told the Idaho Lakes Commission earlier this month.

The only exception to that trend was Boyer Slough, where influence from groundwater kept sediments from freezing.

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