Buse Lake Protected Area extends from Barnhartvale Road, across the lake, then up into the hills to the Buse Hill hiking area.    Buse Lake has no established access route, but it is only a short hike down to the shoreline from a pull-off area on the road.    To paddle the lake, we have be haul the boat down the slope to the shoreline.

Buse Lake is a highly alkaline lake and by mid-summer the lake has brine shrimp and brine flies.    A number of birds are attracted to lakes with high alkaline salt content.    I spotted ducks, swallows and killdeer on this day.

It was a calm day for a paddle around the lake exploring the bays and the shoreline.    Alkali salts fringe the shoreline in some areas and pickleweed was turning red right above the white band.   The bays were choked with aquatic growth and there was some algae in the shallows.

Buse Lake is a spot for naturalists, or for a paddler interested in the ecology of an alkali lake in the summer.     A few moments of the experience are captured in this video: