SAINT CHARLES, ID – A new snack vendor on the North Beach of Bear Lake is there to try and help protect the lake. The new Snack Shack is being run by the nonprofit, Bear Lake Watch in an effort to put in and run an inspection and decontamination station on the north end of the Lake.
“What happens on one side happens on both sides,” Bear Lake Watch Executive Director, Brady Long said. “It’s critical that Idaho has some type of aquatic invasive species decontamination inspection on the Idaho side.”
Long notes that while Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources places and staffs stations outside lakes and reservoirs statewide, the state of Idaho does not yet have a similar program to protect against invasive quagga mussels.
“We want to be part of the solution,” Long explained. “Bear Lake Watch didn’t want to put pressure on the state of Idaho. We didn’t want to come and demand more money, more laws, more rules.”
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