Jeremey Varley, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture's southern chief treatment engineer, explains the state's strategy for eradicating invasive quagga mussels during a boat tour of the infested ...

Quagga mussels cover an Idaho license plate. (Photo courtesy of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture) For the first time this year, Idaho officials announced Friday they found invasive mussels in ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) announced Friday that the quagga mussel impact area of the Snake River was reduced by 51%. ISDA referenced its extensive sampling, which ...

Fisheries researchers are turning to river stocking in an effort to rebuild whitefish numbers after decades of steep decline.

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 ...

Invasive mussels are forcing state agencies across the western United States into emergency mode, with Idaho preparing a first-of-its-kind chemical treatment in the Snake River and California ...

Treatment of a stretch of the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, for invasive quagga mussels is slated to start Sept. 30 and conclude around Oct. 10, state officials announced. The Idaho State ...

Idaho state officials this fall plan to continue treatments to eradicate quagga mussels, an invasive species threatening the state’s ecosystem, after they found larvae remaining in the Snake River, ...

State officials have not found any viable quagga mussels since the state administered the most recent copper-based treatment in the Snake River near Twin Falls this fall, Idaho State Department of ...

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 ...