It's Alaska Invasive Species Awareness Week.
The Piledriver Slough in North Pole, Alaska, is shown June 13, 2024. The slough is one of 19 locations in Interior Alaska where the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District has detected the invasive plant Elodea since 2010.FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The struggle against Alaska’s first aquatic invasive plant is bearing results, but funding gaps threaten to trip up progress.
But she said that’s in part dependent on funding, most of which the district receives through grants or from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That practical hang-up is on top of the other problems the plant can cause, snatching nutrients ahead of native plants, or altering the environment of fish and wildlife.
“And we kind of just apply an arc in front of the boat as we navigate around the littoral zone of whatever water body we’re in, so just along the edges, which is where you tend to find Elodea,” McKenzie said.The other method involves a so-called drip unit, an 80-gallon tank that sits on the bank of sloughs. A thin tube connects the tank to a faucet-like protuberance that extends above the surface of the water, dripping measured quantities of fluoridone into the sloughs for a 12-week period.
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