KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Agency: Saline Lake is looking good
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Associated Press - September 16, 2009 5:04 AM ET
SALINE LAKE, La. (AP) - The invasive floating fern known as giant salvinia that once covered Saline Lake in north Louisiana is almost all gone.
That's the word from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Crews started treating the lake with a special herbicide this spring and biologists now say that the salvinia is dying and should be gone in a few weeks.
Salvinia began choking the lake in the fall of 2007, wildlife officials said.
The 8,400-acre lake is situated on the border of Natchitoches and Winn parishes, 12 miles northeast of Natchitoches. The lake is populated with largemouth bass, crappie and sunfish.
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