[SongoRiver]

Milfoil here is beyond control and officials will not consider using 2,4-D. We are being told that 3-5 acre+ and 10+ acre infestations can be reduced and eventually managed with bottom barriers.

The efforts are expensive, extraordinarily difficult and my observation is that with infestations this large, milfoil is spreading many times faster than barriers could ever be applied, making these efforts little more than "feel good" initiatives, encouraged to forestall any discussion of herbicides.

Barriers kill beneficial native plants and millions of animals, while the infestations simply expand around them. If I am incorrect, can someone enlighten me?

Do you have any experience, one way or the other, that might help us? The 3-5+ acre infestation I referenced, has I expanded up river over a mile, in just the last 5 years and is now less than 1,000 feet from two major lakes.