(Flathead Lake – Keller Sherman) A team of scientists led by the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station and the Karuk Tribe of Northern California recently discovered blooms of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in apparently pristine streams. Their study was published in the scientific journal Freshwater Science.
The effort was led by Laurel Genzoil, a recent Ph.D. graduate who studied at UM’s biological station. “We didn’t expect to find high anatoxins in rivers with clear, clean water, but that is where they were,” Genzoli said. “In our study, these were the same streams that are used for swimming during the hot summer months.”
For more information on the complete study, click here for the study’s webpage.
