Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Invasive Milfoil in Maine.



Milfoil  is taking over of lakes  and killing our fish and plant life it was brought in by boat transportation. The problem with milfoil is it grows rapidly ANYWHERE and can grow  6-10 feet. The problem we have with Milfoil is it likes everything a plant shouldn't like  warm water, strong currents, disturbed water  and other pants so it can filter of of them. Milfoil has got to the point where it's so thick in so many places it is hard to drive your boat through water. Fish and other plants are dying because he species is killing there habitats. Ways of prevention  are to always check your boat and make sure you are not dragging the weed around on your engines lower unit. Always wash your boat  no matter how long your boat was in the lake. The last major concern is the boats trailer often over looked because it only in the water for 2-3 minutes but the weed can cling to the trailer  and transport itself right into your next boating destination. There are  people trying to stop the spread of
Milfoil but it is such a big problem that they can't do it all by themselves. It's up to us to protect our lakes and our state.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011


Even though this is a small scale  experiment it still shows  dangers in what potentially could happen to our earth. The candle represents and the sun and  glass tube represents  the earths atmosphere. Pretend  there's a small ball in the middle of the glass tube, that's the earth.  Can you see what could happen? Our earth could dissapear.  We need to find ways to help our earth, not blow it.