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Governments estimated its popu-
lation at 17,150 in 2005.
Lake neighbors Lewisville
and The Colony witnessed popu-
lation growth as well.
Census figures put
Lewisville’s population at 77,737
in 1990, and NCTCOG estimates
placed the population at 86,650
as of Jan. 1 of this year. Census
records show that The Colony
contained 26,531 people in 1990,
and NCTCOG estimates calculat-
ed 36,450 at the start of the year.
Population booms aren’t all
good news, though. As housing
developments around Lewisville
Lake spread, native plant and
animal populations retreat into
smaller areas.
A microcosm of the lake habi-
tat is preserved at the Lewisville
Lake Environment Learning Area
(LLELA). The 2,000-acre pre-
serve contains nearly 700 plant
and animal species.
The learning area is home to
27 species of mammals, some as
common as the Plains harvest
mouse, coyote, nine-ringed
armadillo, and fox squirrel
Others are as rare as bobcats and
river otters. Observation shows
that 223 bird species also call
LLELA home, as well as 36 types
of reptiles, 13 amphibians, 28 fish
species and 17 types of arthro-
pods. Plant life is also abundant
through the LLELA. Overall, 343
trees, shrubs, woody vines,
grasses, sedges' rushes, wild-
flowers, and other herbaceous
plants thrive there.
Protecting the plant wildlife
at the learning center, as well as
other areas around Lewisville
Lake, is an important step in pro-
tecting human life, said Dr. Rudi
Thompson, LLELA education
director. When entire habitats
disappear, the consequences can
be dire, she said.
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“We learned that lesson from the wildlife habitats that sur-
losing all our wetlands,” she said, round the lake, King said.
“We covered them then found The master plan that the
they filtered pollutants. Now a Corps created in the 1980s
lot of those places are being recently received an upgrade to
recreated.” include utility corridors, King
Encouraging wildlife protects said. The corridors help keep
habitats from becoming extinct, construction and utility work to
And no life form is without value, a limited area, thus protecting
she said. Thompson, a professor habitats.
at the University of North Texas, “Without the corridors, you
recently challenged her students have a lot of lines going every-
to locate something in the where,” King explained. “It
ecosystem that they deemed would be a patchwork effect.”
unnecessary. The class came up The Corps also closely watch-
with mosquitoes. es any other construction project
But some fish eat mosquitoes, done near the lake or its flood
as do dragonflies. planes. Lakeside residents must
“Then they have to look work with the Corps of
somewhere else (for food),” Engineers when building near
Thompson said. “Then they’re the shoreline, because the Corps
encroaching on someone else’s regulates how close one can
food supply. And you just contin- build to the lake. Building too
ue to have degradation of the close can speed up erosion. They
food supply.” also take care that any damage
Although it may seem far- done during construction is
fetched to some, compromising repaired.
the food chain can affect the “Anytime someone does put
human lifestyle. The fish that eat in a utility line or something on
the mosquitoes would die off-a any government property, we
loss that would threaten apoten- have to mitigate for damage,
tial food source for the human which means they have to plant a
population. like amount of materials else-
Local economies might also where,” King said. “We have
suffer. Bass fishing is a popular them put them in a place where
and sometimes costly pastime they’re less likely to be dis-
for residents. Throughout the turbed.”
lake area, retailers cater to Lewisville Lake Environment
anglers. Unfortunately, young Learning Area does its part to
bass also become popular prey preserve the lake ecosystem as
for lake-dwelling predators, well.
“Something that’s happening “We have wonderful prairie
is [predators are] looking into glades and forest areas. Some
aquatic plants that would be areas are very pristine,”
great hiding places for small Thompson said. “We want people
bass. With a single plant, you can ' to go into those areas and inter-
affect the economy of the area, act but not affect them so that
as well as the food supply,” they’ll be gone forever.”
Thompson said. In the name of protecting the
If a small plant can make a habitat, vehicles are forbidden
difference, so can other species, on unpaved areas, and very little
Thompson theorizes. That’s why is done to disturb the area. But
she believes Lewisville Lake res- LLELA also works to educate the
idents and scientists alike should public about nature in hopes that
carefully consider their actions. if they learn about nature, they’ll
“It’s like throwing a stone in learn to care about it, too.
Water. In my mind, I see it as a To do that, though, requires
ripple effect,” she said. “So many re-teaching humanity to appreci-
times as humans, we don’t con- ate nature as it is. Tended parks
sider the farthest reaches of that common in urbanized cities are
ripple. Either we get bored or not nature in its true form. But
don’t think it’s important. As sci- the wilds of the prairies and for-
entists of the environment, we est glades are.
really have to. The furthest “It’s (getting people to) see
reaches of that ripple may have nature for the truth of it instead
more significance than the clos- of the myth of it,” Thompson
est circles.” said. “They want nature on a CD-
The U.S Army Corps of ROM. They want to be able, to
Engineers appreciates those con- see it, .but it not actually affect
nections as well. While overall them.”
their role is to focus on water Battling such notions is no
conservation and care of easy task for scientists.
Lewisville Lake’s flood plains, “Perhaps we’ve made every-
they also work to help preserve thing too clean,” Thompson
speculated. “But the environ-
ment is not the scary part. We’re
the scary part.”
Naturalists must also work to
dispel the idea that the environ-
ment is nothing more than a sur-
vival tool.
“I think many people believe
that the environment is some-
thing that we use,” Thompson
said. “It's not something we
- appreciate; it’s just there for the
taking. I see that a lot. People
will come into LLELA and say,
‘Well, there's poison ivy.’ Of
course there is. That’s a natural
element out there.”
Town governments along the
lake also strive to do their best to
protect nature, despite growth.
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nature and the quality of life is
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something we. are trying
extremely hard to balance,”
Hughes said. “We think it’s criti-
cal to the attraction and the qual-
ity of life in Little Elm. That’s
why the parks board is. doing a -
new master plan that has good
recreation amenities, yet bal-
ances that need to keep the nat-
ural setting of lake undisturbed
so it can be enjoyed by every-
one.”
Even as Eldorado Parkway
. becomes a four-lane divided
highway that runs through the
I heart of Little Elm and spans the
i lake to Lake Dallas, preserving
f nature will be essential.
“We will become a massive
I new development along that cor-
I ridor. When that happens, we
- need to be prepared up front to
I preserve the lake setting,”
Hughes said.
Liberty By The
Lake a red, white
and blue success
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Rubber Ducky Dash.
Among the highlights of the
day was the “Anything that
Floats” regatta, a race where
homemade boats do everything
just to survive in the water. The
barely-seaworthy entries are
fueled less on boat design than
creativity,
“I really enjoyed the boat
race, said spectator Crickett
Pratt. “It was really great to see
the originality that the residents
brought to the race.”
Swain said the entries in the
race this year nearly doubled
from eight to 15 in 2004.
The overall interest left the
director with a good feeling.
“Everything actually went really,
really, really well,” Swain said.
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