Despite CPW’s best efforts to eradicate zebra mussels from various bodies of water on the Western Slope, 2025 saw the mussels ...

The mussels eat plankton, which takes away from fish that rely on it for food. After further analysis on July 9, the lab notified Invasive Species Manager Robert Walters that the sample was positive ...

KALISPELL, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials are urging boaters to help prevent the spread of invasive mussels after a boat infested with them came through a check station in Anaconda ...

A new study has found another negative effect of invasive zebra mussels in lakes: higher levels of mercury in fish. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, the U.S. Geological Survey and other ...

Zebra mussels were recently found at Des Moines Water Works. What to know about the invasive species and why the Iowa DNR isn't worried.

An invasive species capable of wiping out entire aquatic ecosystems and causing millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure has been found for the first time in the Colorado River, the most ...

A zebra mussel invasion in Manitoba has sparked an all-hands-on-deck response, and Canadian officials and residents are hoping it will be enough. Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park is the ...

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in Eagle County, the Colorado River, and other waterways. Zebra mussels — and ...

When zebra mussels were first discovered in the Great Lakes in 1988, I was not particularly concerned about the impacts they would have on Lake Erie. As a 2-year-old, I was just beginning to learn to ...

Invasive zebra mussels have now infested at least 135 miles of the Colorado River, from the Utah border to Dotsero in western ...

For years, Lake Vermilion and Lake Kabetogama seemed special. As Minnesota’s other large and heavily fished lakes fell one-by-one to zebra mussel infestations, the two sprawling wooded giants in ...