The meeting should be held in the last week of January once all student applications are in. The fishery closed in 1984 when lake acidification experiments started. The flip-flop experiment could be carried out at Little Rock lake but should not replace one of the other experimental lake sites. Additional costs could be absorbed as there would already be a fish sampling team in place. Also, the sampling could be more broad rather than in-depth.
More discussion is required on practical aspects of fitting Little Rock into the sampling plan.
The bass population is adult dominated and same on both sides of the lake. Funding for sampling ends in Feb 2001 and there are no plans for further acidification experiments. The curtain could be removed but that would change the nature of the experiment from ecological to behavioral, and the relevance to Biocomplexity would be questionable. The curtain could be strengthened, but this would have significant costs. The Nature Conservacy has bought land with several pristine or near-pristine lakes, located northwest of Trout Lake in Vilas County.