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Conservation Dogs Find Quagga Mussels

By Samantha Wright
Published August 13, 2019 at 3:32 PM MDT
Idaho Department of Agriculture

Zebra and quagga mussels can devastate an ecosystem and Yellowstone National Park is doing everything it can to keep them out. As the Mountain West News Bureau’s Maggie Mullen reports, that includes harnessing the power of a dog’s snout.

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