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Mother Nature Knows Best

In last month’s newsletter, we shared the story of how goldfish were destroying Boulder Lake. The lake was swimming with thousands of goldfish that threatened to destroy the entire aquatic ecosystem of the lake.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials believe that someone dumped four or five pet goldfish in the lake about two years ago. Two solutions were being considered to rectify the problem – electro shocking the goldfish or draining the lake.

When officials went back to the lake a short time later to conduct another fish survey, their trap nets bought up 26 green sunfish, two largemouth bass, 10 painted turtles and 18 tiger salamanders, but no goldfish.

The officials then inspected the lake further and found three or four goldfish in the shallows. But, just as they were watching these goldfish, a pelican swooped down and swallowed them up!

What they saw was an American white pelican. During the summer, these pelicans are found in most of the western and Rocky Mountain states. They have a wingspan of up to 108-inches and a length of up to 50-70 inches. These large birds are able to eat more than four pounds of food per day. Apparently, these pelicans like the taste and they were eating like kings and queens at a feast. It’s no wonder the lake was cleaned of goldfish!

Isn’t this an unbelievable story? It appears that Mother Nature took care of this unnatural problem very effectively. No shocking of fish was needed, the lake didn’t have to be drained and the citizens of Colorado saved a bundle of money. Let’s hope our officials remember this environmentally-sound solution if a problem like this ever comes up again.