[Carry_Okie]

What about all the rivers of pine pollen that is loaded with proteins washing into all the storm drains and stream beds and then into the lake?

My guess is that the pollen count is pretty steady, regardless of the condition of the forest, compared to the difference between a young forest after a fire versus a decadent forest full of rotting biomass. There may be a lot of pollen, but given the historical data the lake can clearly handle that amount.

[SierraWasp]

Well, I realize, I think, that the lake can handle the pollen, but I still wonder if there isn't something that is fed by all that pollen protein that would affect the clarity of the lake's waters.

I mean there's the golf course fertilizers that feed the algea that everybody keeps screaming about as a token of all the dastardly development by greedy capitalistic devilish developers/speculators for fun and profit in the evil America that allows such sport at the expense of the fragile, pristine environment!!!(dripping sarcasm in response to a total overload of militant environmentalistic rhetoric for the past 40 years)