By focusing on the seasons and the totality of experience, the mosquito becomes an integral part of the lake environment. Ecologists who view Sumas Lake as an ecosystem underscore a similar awareness: mosquitos attract and sustain other forms of life. An interdisciplinary narrative written from a conscious environmentalist stance provides a critical and persuasive perspective on the man/lake relationship.

Barry Leach, a retired college professor of Environmental Science and key figure in the establishment of the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, offers a passionate and well-researched natural history of the Fraser Delta in Waterfowl On A Pacific Estuary, produced by the Provincial Museum. Leach, a British-born naturalist himself, follows in the footsteps and studies in the notebooks of the naturalists Stanley Keast Lord and the world-renowned Allan Brooks, both of whom spent considerable time studying and shooting the waterfowl around Sumas Lake. Although the waterfowl was on the decline with little aid from British Columbia's lax conservation laws, Leach asserts that the grazing geese of the Fraser Valley lost their last remaining undisturbed habitat after the lake was drained.