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2023 Explored: Milfoil battle

By Zachary Matson

Chemical herbicide offers hope, and fear, in fight against invasive water plant

Paradox Lake will be latest to use an herbicide designed to kill milfoil

Paradox Lake to become latest to be treated with milfoil herbicide

By Zachary Matson

Adirondack Park Agency approves permit for 3rd Adirondack lake to use ProcellaCOR

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Park agency approves Lake Luzerne’s plan to kill lake weeds with herbicide

By Zachary Matson

The Adirondack Park Agency approved a plan to use herbicide to battle invasive water weed on Lake Luzerne

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What is ProcellaCOR herbicide and how does it target milfoil?

By Zachary Matson

What’s at play in the latest fight over using an herbicide in Adirondack waters  

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Judge halts Lake George herbicide plan

By Zachary Matson

Order will block plan until suit brought by Lake George Association resolved

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Conservation group, municipality sue to block Lake George herbicide use

By Zachary Matson

The filing argued the agencies failed to address valid scientific questions about how the herbicide would impact Lake George waters

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Lake George commission eyes weed killer that worked on Minerva Lake

By Gwendolyn Craig

The Adirondack Park Agency said a newly approved herbicide worked well killing Eurasian watermilfoil on Minerva Lake.

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APA approves herbicide use on Minerva Lake

By Gwendolyn Craig

For the third time in at least 20 years, the Adirondack Park Agency approved the use of a herbicide for managing an aquatic invasive species.

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