Floating islands set sail in park pond

September 2022 -The floating islands project is an award-winning blue-green algae mitigation project in the Bear Creek Greenbelt. Lakewood Natural Resource Specialist Lee Blair was awarded the 2022 Colorado Open Space Alliance Blue Grama Award for Outstanding Achievement in Ecological Management for his work on the project. The alliance acknowledges only a small number of projects from around the state each year, and this is the first time Lakewood received an award. Watch Lee talk about what the floating islands are and how they help preserve the greenbelt environment in the video below.

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