. Report of the State highway commission on the Iowa lakes and lake beds . except a:snoted above, was almost entirely absent. No one in the vicinity of StormLake would consider draining this lake. It is regarded as an asset to thecommunity. Pickerel Lake, Palo Alto County. This small lake has been preserved through the efforts of the people ofPalo Alto and Buena Vista counties who have built a low dam at the out-let. This little dam has increased the depth of the water several the time of our visit, July, 1915, we observed a few rushes on themargin. The water contained large numbers of
. Report of the State highway commission on the Iowa lakes and lake beds . except a:snoted above, was almost entirely absent. No one in the vicinity of StormLake would consider draining this lake. It is regarded as an asset to thecommunity. Pickerel Lake, Palo Alto County. This small lake has been preserved through the efforts of the people ofPalo Alto and Buena Vista counties who have built a low dam at the out-let. This little dam has increased the depth of the water several the time of our visit, July, 1915, we observed a few rushes on themargin. The water contained large numbers of pond weeds (Patamogetonand Najus) and algae like Spirogyra and Chara. Because of the warm 172 LAKES AND LAKE BEDS OF IOWA weather these algae were abundant. Their growth cannot be prevented indeep water. Such algae are objectionable only for a very short action of the waves destroys them. This lake has the advantage ofa fine grove consisting of bass wood, slippery elm and bur oak, which ismuch used by the people of the surrounding country as a picnic Fig. 64—Rush I,ake, Palo Alto County. Typical growth of Greater Bulrush (scirpus fluviatilis).
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