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If asked to picture a butterfly, most people would imagine the orange and black wings of a monarch. For the

The story of Chautauqua Lake is one of its relationship with people. The lake has attracted people from Native American

Doug and Jane Conroe stand in the walkway of one of their lakeside gardens near Miller Bell Tower. The Conroes plan lakeside gardens throughout the grounds in order to not only beautify the lake, but to also create gardens that functions as buffers between the lake and reduses unwanted sediment from flowing into the lake.

Walter Carlisle “Corky” Shaw III passed away Sept. 7, 2019. He was born to parents Jane Robb Shaw and Walter

Doug Conroe, Executive Director of the Chautauqua Lake Association, pulls up the sonde used to collect multiple types of data

Doug Conroe, Executive Director of the Chautauqua Lake Association, begins to fill out the recordings from the day's lake testing on Sunday, Aug 18, 2019. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Doug and Jane Conroe collect and extract a water sample from Chautauqua Lake using a Kemmerer water sampler during their biweekly testing of the lake on Sunday, Aug 18, 2019. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Doug Conroe, Executive Director of the Chautauqua Lake Association, pulls up the sonde used to collect multiple types of data from Chautauqua Lake during the biweekly lake test on Sunday, Aug 18, 2019. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Watercraft Steward Lauren Sharp removes eelgrass from a motorboat that recently emerged from Chautauqua Lake while also checking for aquatic

Photo by Buffalo Drone Photography Town of Ellery, only entity to decline signing MOA, has herbicide permit denied by NYSDEC

  Racine-Johnson Aquatic Ecologists gathered plants from the bottom of Chautauqua Lake as part of its 2019 report on the

Next summer, before the season begins, Chautauqua Institution will host a day-long conference, holding an open discussion with community members

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Around 90 acres were covered in the application of three herbicides on June 11 and

The question of whether to use herbicides still lingers over Chautauqua Lake nearly two months after chemicals were used to

Harmful algal blooms are starting to appear in Chautauqua Lake this summer, with one bloom still active and three total