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FWC To Conduct Partial Drawdown of Bear Lake In Santa Rosa County Beginning This Month
November 8, 2023
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Florida Forest Service – Blackwater River State Forest are working on a brief drawdown of Bear Lake beginning in November and ending in March of 2024. This partial drawdown, or lowering of lake water levels, will allow for shoreline nuisance aquatic vegetation control. The lake will not close to fishing during this brief wintertime drawdown.
Bear Lake is a 107-acre artificial impoundment constructed in 1959, opened to fishing in 1961 and designated as a Fish Management Area. Bear Lake is in northeast Santa Rosa County within the Blackwater River State Forest, approximately two miles east of Munson on State Road 4.
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Bear Lake is considered to be impaired by the state of FL based on years of testing, meaning that the lake does not meet its designated use under FL law. There are too many nutrients in the lake, which causes the overgrowth of plants–algae, plankton, and even shoreline vegetation. This puts the lake into an imbalance and is not healthy. Instead of clear, clean water it can turn murky and will not support a healthy natural system. Nutrients can come from stormwater runoff, fertilizers, septic pollution and other sources.
Hooray, it has gotten nealy impossible to fish with all the grass and weeds on the shoreline.
They need to start fertilizing and liming like they used to it make fishing as it needs to. The enviromentalist need to get out of controlling how FWC take cares of our lakes. Just go back to the old ways.