Members of the Candlewood Lake Authority went out on the water recently searching for plants growing in the lake and found some fragments of both invasive milfoil and native species.  They are meeting with aquatic plant experts and gathering information about the environmental and ecosystem factors that might have contributed to the loss of plants this year.  Samples were taken from a cove between New Fairfield and Sherman.  While the fragments were found, none were found growing in that area.