Judge blocks pilot Lake Mattamuskeet algaecide application - The Coastland Times

Judge blocks pilot Lake Mattamuskeet algaecide application - The Coastland Times

By Catherine Kozak, CoastalReview.org RALEIGH — A federal court decision issued last Wednesday blocks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from using a potentially harmful algaecide at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, a compound that environmental groups argued would endanger the waterfowl the refuge is supposed to protect. Refuge officials had issued a notification in 2023 that it planned to do a trial application of chemical pellets within…