Water quality of Raquette Lake has been monitored by AWI and Adirondack Lake Assessment Program volunteers since 2003 and occurrence of several target boreal bird species has been monitored in multiple bogs and fens in the Raquette watershed during the same time period.  This Tunisian crochet wrap combines information from both monitoring programs to represent long-term changes in Raquette and its watershed.  Transparency has declined in this and several ALAP lakes in the past two decades and similarly, boreal bird populations have exhibited a pattern of decline in this region and others in the park.  Boreal bird decline is most likely the result of climate change, among other factors.  Declining lake transparency may be associated with climate change but may also indicate a positive trend of recovery from acidification.  Lake transparency here is depicted in blues and boreal birds in greens.  Data are from Laxson et al. (2019) and Glennon et al. (2019).

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By Michale Glennon