Show Student Studies Algae to Improve Fishing at Resort Mirror Lake Experiment to Determine Acidity of Fish Source Successful fishing trips to the Mirror lake area may seem to have little relationship to a quantitative study of the algae in that area being being being be be- ing conducted b by Richard Rampton Ramp- Ramp ton graduate botany student on the campus There may be a real connection though though one one almost as complicated as that of the cat that caught the rat that lived in the house hOWie that Jack built Insects Important Good fishing the Forest service has found depends not alone on the number of fish planted but also upon the number of insects available to feed the fish But Dut the number of insect larvae depends in turn on the amount of algae present to feed the larvae The Mirror lake region with more than 1000 lakes within a small area would be an ideal fishing fishing fishing fish fish- ing resort Forest service officials believe if there were enough in insects insects insects in- in sects to feed the fish Scanty Scant amounts of algae in the lakes however however how how- ever makes heavy stocking of 01 fish impossible Study Improvement ement Studying the problem Forest Foresi service officials found that the lakes o of the region are slightly acid while it is believed that algae delight most in waters that are aie slightly alkaline Accordingly two years ago the Forest service dumped quantities of stone lime-stone and other alkaline substances in representative lakes in an attempt to find out if the acidity of the waters could be reduced and the amount of algae increased Student Experiments During the past year Mr Rampton Rampton Rampton Ramp- Ramp ton has been working with the Forest Forest Forest For For- est service taking samples of the water and algae of the lakes To determine if there is a definite definite definite nite relationship between water acidity and algae gr growth and to i i t r 1 JJ 1 il find opt oat what effect the addition of chemicals to the lake waters have upon that acidity Mr Rampton Ramp- Ramp ton is now running running- a series of analyses analyses analyses an an- of the samples he collected during the past summer |