Little Moose Lake

Figure 1. Little Moose Lake study area near Old Forge, N, Y.

Captive populations of adult, yearling, and larval brook trout, which had been maintained over winter in Little Moose Lake water... 

Figure 3. Lysimeter snow-melt pH levels during thaw period of March 8-16, 1977 in the watershed of Little Moose Lake, Old Forge, N.Y. 

Figure 4. Levels of pH measured in Little Moose Lake Outlet and in water entering the laboratory from the 3 meter intake depth pipeline from Little Moose Lake (refer to figure 1 for locations).

But that was thirty years and many seventy-hour workweeks ago, and today she had come to sell ideas, not products. Her company wasn t small anymore. It had become a 60-million-dollar-a-year enterprise, the leader in natural personal care products such as shampoos, salves, and her trademark lip balm, featuring the funny little pen-and-ink drawing of a sharp-nosed, bearded fellow in a railroad cap Burt, a melding of myth, man, and marketing that took off in a way no one could have predicted. In the last few years she had cashed in and turned her formidable and iconoclastic business skills—not to mention a few hundred million dollars—in another direction, conservation. Her focus was to chart a possible future for the immense Maine Woods in which spruce, pine, and icy blue lakes prowled by moose and lynx and loon would trump the real estate investors vision of resorts, golf courses, and suburban homes on clear-cut lands. 

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