The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 July 1983 — Page 11

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Local lakes stocked

A pair of Kosciusko County lakes have received more than 180,000 thousand walleye fingerlings from the Department of Natural Resources, according to DNR Director Jim Ridenour. Big Chapman Lake near Warsaw recently received 88,000 fingerlings, and Tippecanoe Lake near Oswego received 94,000 walleye fingerlings. The walleye supplement stockings that were

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made last year, and the stockings will continue through 1985. By that time, fisheries biologists will have stocked approximately 248,000 walleye fingerlings in Big Chapman Lake and 600,000 fingerlings in Tippecanoe Lake. DNR fishery biologists will be closely monitoring fingerling growth and survival in the two lakes.

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Optimism? The cost of living isn’t rising quite as rapidly as formerly. But it’s still safe to assume that if you can hold on until the end of one month the next will be worse. — Courant, Hartford. I COCINERO’S MEXICAN DINING h Mexican Food & Choice Steaks | "Serving UMOHIMHe] SR 13S SYBKBSE

DNR Director visits Tri-County Area

By DOUG WALKER The Tri-County Wildlife Area near North Webster Thursday was the scene of a day -long public forum conducted by Jim Ridenour, director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The visit was one of several to DNR properties Ridenour has scheduled for this summer in an attempt to meet with a large number of Hoosiers across the state who have questions and comments about the state’s natural resources. Ridenour called the DNR “a large and very complex agency of state government.” “We have approximately 1,400 full-time employees, and in the summer, with all the extra work to be done, we go to somewhere in the area of 2,500 employees,” he said. “We have 100 separate properties in the state, comprising over 400,000 acres. Most people are aware of the state parks, and the state fish and wildlife areas, but they may not think about the state forests and memorials that the DNR is also involved with.” Not all of the DNR’s responsibilies are limited to recreational areas, Ridenour said. “We also are responsible for things like the reclamation of

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coal lands that are being mined in southnm Indiana. We also have management responsibility for the reservoir properties. It’s a very large and comptex agency, and it has a budget somewhere in the neighborhood of SSO million a year. Much of that money the department itself generates, through various fees and licenses. While SSO million sounds like a lot of money, and it certainly is, by no means is that all general fund tax dollars.” Ridenour said Indiana’s state park system ranks with the best in the nation. “I think that given the philosophy of the Indiana parks, which is to be fairly rustic, I have to think our state park system is in the top five in the country,” he said. “We’re not the kind of a system that has water slides, for example. We haven’t taken a Disneyland-type approach to our parks, which some states have gone to. We’ve always been a very nature-oriented state, and our nature centers in our parks are examples of that. “I think our campgrounds are second to none. I believe we attract a high quality professional staff that you don’t find in some other states. I can’t knock Kentucky in that Kentucky has a good system, but I think that ours is an

outstandmg system, and probably better than all but about four or five in the country.’ Conservationists have been concerned about the effect Reagan Administration policies (and the policies of Secretary of the Interior James Watt) might have on the nation’s natural resources, but Ridenour says he has seen little that has worried him, at least in Indiana. “We certainly haven’t seen anything in Indiana that makes me concerned,” he said. “I think Watt’s bark is worse than his bite. I think he enjoys being a controversial figure, and sometimes he says some things that would probably be reasonably acceptable if he just said them in a little different fashion. Even so, the great, vast amounts of publicly-held land are not in Indiana. They’re in the Weeds important to fish Each year, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources receives complaints about weed problems in many northeast Indiana lakes. Abundant vegetation often clogs boat channels, beaches, and lake shorelines making fishing, boating, and swimming difficult. This has ted to widespread weed control programs using various aquatic herbicides, mechanical weed cutters, and even old-fashioned hand-pulling of weeds. Even though aquatic weeds can be a nuisance, some weeds are important components in the ecology of a lake. The microscopic algae (phytoplankton) which gives a greenish color' to the water, forms the basis of the food chain that eventually leads to big fish. Small animals feed on phytoplankton. Insects feed on microscopic animals, fish eat insects and big fish eat little fish. Without phytoplankton, the food chain collapses. Rooted aquatic vegetation provides a substrate for many types of aquatic insects. These insects need attachment, areas to survive, grow, and reproduce. Without aquatic vegetation on which to cling, many insects disappear. Weeds provide cover for fish; cover from bright sunlight and cover from excessive predation. Aquatic vegetation also performs specialized functions. Tliey remove nutrients from the water which makes the water clearer and they release lifegiving oxygen into the water. Weeds also serve as spawning and nursery ground for some game fish such as northern pike and they are important to waterfowl and other aquatic animals Baked goods to be judged on July 22 Yeast bread, cookies, cakes and pies can be entered in the Home and Family Arts Building at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair on Friday, July 22, between 9 a.m. and 11:30a.m. according to Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross, extension agent home economist. This year there is a special president’s baked item. Fairboard president Melvin Crass has chosen sour dough bread. The judging of the foods will be noon Friday, July 22. Last year 68 exhibitors entered 444 items. Any resident of Elkhart County may exhibit in the Home and Family Arts building. To receive a complete set of the rules and regulations, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with 40 cents postage to the Elkhart County Extension Office, 17746 CR 34 Goshen, Ind., 46526,

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Westen states. We’re a pretty small state, so we wouldn’t expect to have the controversy that a Wyoming or a Montana might have.” A Wabash native who attended Indiana and Colorado Universities, Ridenour said he was surprised when Governor Orr approached him about becoming DNR director. “Through being in the service, I was out of the state for a white, and when Governor Orr came in, I was hack in the state and living in Lafayette when he asked me to become DNR director,” he recalled. “It was kind of surprising to me because I thought he was going to ask me to volunteer to give an hour or two a month to some sort of commission, and then he asked me to take a fulltime job. So I’m not a long-time government employee, and probably won’t be a long-time government employee. I’m just serving at this time at the request of Governor Orr.” Ridenour projects the DNR’s immediate future as a period of maintaining present standards. “I think the next two years, just like the past two years, are going to be years of making sure we don’t lose ground on maintaining the facilities that we have,” he said. “Over the last 10 years, including the years of the Bowen

K jw i M ' ' . 7*2 ■■DNBnMNBHHMMMMw DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIRECTOR —Jim Ridenour, director of the Indiana Deparment of Natural Resources, spent last Thursday at the Tri-County Fish and Wildlife Area near North Webster. Ridenour is visiting a number of DNR properties this summer in an attempt to meet with Hoosiers from around the state who have questions and comments about Indiana's natural resources. (Photo bv Doug Walker)

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Administration, the state has put a lot of money in natural resources, the parks and the fish and wildlife areas. Things like sewage systems, underground utilities, parking lots, campgrounds, and so on. What we want to make sure of is during these tough economic times is that we not let those things slide backward. “At the same time, during the next two years, we’re probably not going to be in a position to make major, large acquisitions. Maybe a piece of ground here, a piece of ground there. But eventually, we ll need to get back into some major purchases, because our population will grow in Indiana, and our facilities are already pretty well strained. We’ve been setting records every year for the past four years in terms of attendance, and we ll set another record this year.” “Hoosiers, through the Wander Indiana program and some of the other programs, are now really beginning to realize how good our facilities are,” said Ridenour. “Instead of going to Kentucky, or saying yes to Michigan, they are coming back to the Indiana system. So we’re going to need more facilities in the state, but I don’t think we’ll probably be getting them in the next two or three years.”

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