Quagga Mussel
June 3, 2009--Degraded lower Colorado River needs federal help to recover (Environmental News Service)
Protection of Lower Colorado River water quality needs comprehensive legislation and adequate funding for a major effort like programs underway in the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes, local officials to
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April 30, 2009--Navajo park fortifying defenses against invasive mollusk (Durango Herald)
Gene Seagle wants to be sure that two voracious freshwater mollusks that overwhelm aquatic ecosystems and choke water pipes don't find their way here.
February 21, 2009--Mussel inspection program expands (Loveland Reporter Herald)
Zebra and quagga mussels are tiny shellfish that officials worry could pose a huge problem to lakes, boats and water systems throughout Colorado.
October 14, 2008--Possible zebra, quagga mussel infestation concern water district (Cortez Journal)
The board of directors of the Mancos Water Conservancy District is concerned about the advance and possible infestation of zebra and quagga mussels into the Jackson Gulch Reservoir.
July 26, 2008--Officials: Don't move a mussel (Cortez Journal)
Don't move a mussel! That's the theme of a campaign to prevent the spread of zebra and quagga mussels to Colorado lakes.
July 16, 2008--Mussels found at Granby (Denver Post)
State and federal officials have confirmed that quagga mussel larvae have been found at Lake Granby, the large reservoir in Grand County. The Colorado Division of Wildlife has joined with the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S.
June 17, 2008--Tiny, clingy and destructive, mussel makes its way west (New York Times)
The mussel-coated debris is unmistakable evidence of an event occurring silently and largely out of sight — the colonization of the Colorado River by the quagga mussel, a fingernail-size Eurasian bivalve with an astonishing sex drive and a nasty reputation for causing economic and ecological havoc.
