Higgins Lake Swimmer's Itch Organization

The 2025 egg development paper is now available for download

The SIS control work for Higgins and Crystal Lakes is now available.

The 2024 year end report is now available.

Details of the Trap and Relocate program we use at Higgins Lake. The results of our Swimmers Itch success at Higgins Lake speak for themselves. Published in 2024, this peer-reviewed paper contains empirical evidence that trapping and relocating greatly reduces SI cases.

Paper title:  Swimmer’s itch control: Timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes

 and the link:   https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288948