Warming threatens lakes

You don’t have to tell the guys at Crown Point that Adirondack lakes are changing. It’s apparent in the lack of ice-fishing shanties out on Lake Champlain, where once they formed seasonal villages filled with people angling for comfort. Now those shacks are gone—partly because invasive predators have pushed the crowd-pleasing smelt deeper, and partly because the ice is less dependable for those who still chase perch there. Now a few of them drag sleds and sit on buckets when conditions are right.

“We used to drive to Westport up the lake to fish,” longtime bait shop owner Norm St. Pierre said.

Drive trucks on ice from the Crown Point peninsula, that is—across Bulwagga Bay and more than