First, the invaders claimed Lake St. Clair, on the border of Michigan and Canada. By the early 1990s, they’d taken hold in the Great Lakes, then made their way into the Mississippi River Basin. The ...

A lake user's report prompted a scuba search at Manuel Mine Lake.

Evidence of invasive, destructive zebra mussels in the Colorado River could mean trouble for wildlife, boaters and water companies alike, but it’s not yet clear if the thumbnail-sized mollusk will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quagga mussels like these in a photo from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are one of the largest potential aquatic ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) — Farmers in western Colorado are watching closely as an ongoing infestation of zebra mussels in the Colorado River raises concerns about local irrigation systems that ...

It was a good year to be an invasive zebra mussel in western Colorado this year. For those seeking to combat the mussels’ spread in the region, not so much. Until 2022, no adult zebra or quagga mussel ...

For most of us in Eagle County, the phrase “zebra infestation” sounds like the setup for a bad safari movie. Unfortunately, the reality is much less entertaining. The problem (obviously) isn’t zebras.

When Colorado Parks and Wildlife personnel tested a small pond that feeds the irrigation system at the Mesa County Fairgrounds, looking for invasive zebra mussels, the results came back as a surprise ...

Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado River was a one-time event, not a sign of a larger problem lurking beneath ...

Now, the mussels threaten to reach the country’s last major uninfested freshwater zones to the west and north: the Columbia River Basin in Washington and Oregon, and the waterways of Alaska. In my ...