Spread mainly by hitching rides on watercraft, the fast-reproducing mollusks clog water infrastructure, cling to marinas and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The summer boating season brings wakeboarding, fishing and good times on the water. It also brings the dreaded quagga mussel. The destructive aquatic invasive species infest lakes and ...

This year’s boating season report on invasive species decontamination efforts at Lake Powell and other Utah waterbodies registered larger numbers than in 2024. Technicians from different Utah, Arizona ...

State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials discovered a large number of adult zebra mussels in a ...

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 ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials continue to get bad news when it comes to invasive mussels species. The latest discovery was made July 3, when Aquatic Nuisance Species staff discovered a large ...