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Expanding on his 1993 book LakeSmarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, McComas offers practical, low-cost projects and ideas for small-scale lake and pond improvement. Topics include shoreland buffer installation, fisheries management, reducing nuisance algal growth, controlling exotic aquatic plants, lakeside wastewater treatment systems, small-scale dredging and more. The guide is extensively illustrated with more than 700 black and white diagrams and photos. McComas is a lake management consultant.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993. Completely revised and updated, now published by Lewis Publishers, this guidebook contains over 300 ideas and projects including step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face everyday. Coverage includes shoreland buffer installation, fisheries management, reducing nuisance algal growth, controlling exotic aquatic plants, lakeside wastewater treatment systems, small scale dredging, and more.


Book Info
Contains approaches applicable for shallow lake management programs. Includes over 300 ideas and projects with step by step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face everyday.

ANNOTATION

The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the Bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993. This guidebook is the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements. It contains over 300 ideas and projects that provide step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face on a regular basis. This updated and expanded second edition includes new chapters on protecting and restoring the shoreland area, pollutant inputs from the watershed, enhancing native aquatic plants, historical lake management efforts, and pond management including storm water pond improvements.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993. Completely revised and updated, now published by Lewis Publishers, this guidebook contains over 300 ideas and projects including step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face everyday. Coverage includes shoreland buffer installation, fisheries management, reducing nuisance algal growth, controlling exotic aquatic plants, lakeside wastewater treatment systems, small scale dredging, and more.

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