Call them the lakers. Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a floating garden or land on the lake, they simply do it. Especially since the militancy problem in the Valley began, there has been no stopping them -- neither the government nor the weeds that get entangled in the oars. What they haven't realised is that their age-old practices are now killing the goose that lays the golden eggs