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Branden Murray of Sabattus heads Friday morning onto Lower Range Pond in Poland to ice fish. He first checked Thompson Lake, which lies partially in Poland, and found dangerously thin ice, he said. Lower Range had 5 to 6 inches of ice over most of the relatively shallow pond. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
AUBURN Scott Williams, executive director of Lake Stewards of Maine, a nonprofit that trains volunteers to monitor water quality across the state, had just got off a technical support call Thursday with about 40 “citizen lake scientists.”
The subject was keeping tabs on “ice-in” dates the point at which a lake or water body first freezes over.