Paul Robertson This is Me

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1. 1. OLA Board

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   Published on: 7/26/2008   Last Visited: 7/26/2008

   Paul RobertsonDIRECTOR
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   Paul is a native of Lincoln County, Oregon, an area he returned to in 2003 and now finds himself managing his childhood fishing grounds, Devils Lake.An environmental scientist by trade, Paul has ten years of work experience in the field and currently serves in the public sector as the Lake Manager for the Devils Lake Water Improvement District.
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   Paul Robertson DIRECTOR

2. 2. thenewsguard.com

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   Published on: 7/25/2007   Last Visited: 7/31/2007

   "By the '80s people said you could walk across the lake on the weeds," said Lake Manager Paul Robertson."The only reason you could still get a boat across was because people had been burning a path through the weeds with their propellers and keeping a route open."
   
   Robertson, who has been full-time lake manager with the Devils Lake Water Improvement District since 2005, gave a talk on the lake's history at the recent 25th birthday party for the Preservation Association of Devils Lake.
   
   "Without PADL," Robertson told the members, "we wouldn't have had a water improvement district - so thank you all very much."
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   "We saw total eradication of the vegetation on the bottom of the lake," said Robertson."That was bad, because we still had all the nutrients in there and rather than going into the weeds, they went into the algae."
   
   The algae causing concern was not the "good" green variety but the "bad" blue-green cyanobacteria (technically speaking it's a prokaryote rather than an algae but is still, Robertson says, definitely bad).
   
   Cyanobacteria can produce various types of toxin, from dermatoxins, which can cause a rash, to neurotoxins which can kill small animals - including small human animals.
   
   "There is no guarantee that the organism is going to produce the toxin," Robertson said, "but we saw what happened when the U.S.
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   However, Robertson is resigned to the fact that as long as there are people living on the lakeshore, there will be too many nutrients in the water.
   
   "So the best way to deal with our cyanobacteria is just to mistreat them" he said.
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   Robertson has been so impressed by the strength of the lake community he is confident one solar bee could be bought entirely through donations.

3. 3. Lincoln City, Oregon - The News Guard Visitor and Relocation Information

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   Published on: 4/11/2006   Last Visited: 4/12/2006

   Devils Lake Water Improvement Manager Paul Robertson has said the beams have had substantial wear and tear through the years.