“I am kind of calling it public aquatic plant enemy No. 1,” Snyder says. Hydrilla turned up in a private lake in an Oak Brook subdivision on Ginger Creek, a tributary to Salt Creek. It marked ...

Lake Okeechobee releases to the Caloosahatchee River will be consistent for the next several months as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tries to lower the lake to recover lost aquatic vegetation.