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• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Panasoffkee

  Thursday, May 4, 2023 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the Sumter County Lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Rousseau

  Wednesday, May 3, 2023 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the Citrus, Levy and Marion counties lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and may negatively impact navigation and flood protection.

• FWC conducts habitat restoration project at Lake George

  Friday, April 21, 2023 -  Staff will install fenced enclosures to protect native submersed and emergent plant species from plant-eating wildlife until the plants are established.

• FWC to continue habitat restoration with mechanical harvesting at Lake Jackson in Osceola County

  Friday, April 21, 2023 -  Aquatic plant harvesters will be used to mechanically remove tussocks and floating mats of the nonnative plant commonly known as Cuban bulrush.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lochloosa Lake

  Wednesday, April 19, 2023 -  The FWC will treat 32 acres of invasive hydrilla in the Alachua County lake along the northeastern shoreline where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation.

• FWC conducting aquatic habitat enhancement in Everglades WMA Complex

  Friday, April 14, 2023 -  This project should improve native plant diversity, wildlife foraging opportunities and recreational access through a combination of aerial herbicide treatments and prescribed burns in wetland areas of the Everglades WMA Complex that are populated with dense, monotypic invasive cattail.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on Lake Apopka

  Thursday, April 13, 2023 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation.

• FWC conducts aquatic plant control on South Lake

  Monday, March 13, 2023 -  The FWC will treat invasive hydrilla in the Brevard County lake in areas where it is encroaching on beneficial native submersed aquatic plants and could impact access to navigation and flood protection.

• FWC to mechanically remove floating invasive plants in Lake Istokpoga

  Wednesday, October 19, 2022 -  The project started on Oct.13 and is scheduled to take about two months.

• FWC to conduct Lake Okeechobee aquatic plant management starting Monday

  Friday, September 23, 2022 -  The cattail management areas proposed by the FWC have been approved by the Lake Okeechobee Aquatic Plant Management Interagency Task Force (an advisory group of state and federal agencies with public input on aquatic plant management conducted by the FWC, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Water Management District on Lake Okeechobee) and Audubon Florida.