Sarpy County kayak cleanup spreads invasive species awareness at Prairie Queen Lake

Volunteers remove invasive species from Papillion lake

Nebraska Game & Parks hosts a cleanup to remove invasive plants from a Papillion lake with the help of volunteer kayakers and divers.

Sarpy County kayak cleanup spreads invasive species awareness at Prairie Queen Lake

Scuba divers and kayakers took to Prairie Queen Lake on Sunday to pull trash from the water and shine a light on a growing environmental threat: aquatic invasive species.Volunteer Dave Sullivan said his motivation was simple."I hate litter and just love to help out the environment," Sullivan said.But the cleanup was also about education specifically about the aquatic invasive species causing problems in Nebraska, for example curly-leaf pondweed.…