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Average salmon and steelhead counts in the Columbia River Basin over the last decade are still well below officials’ goal of five million fish per year.
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Idaho State Department of Agriculture has found juvenile quagga mussels once again in the Twin Falls area – though at lower levels prior to chemically treating 16 miles of the Snake River last year.
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Conservationists want to save two small snails to help protect rivers in the West.
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One estimate says a quagga mussel infestation would cost the Pacific Northwest $500 million a year to deal with.
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The Interior Department is spending another $70 million to reopen habitat for native fish in many parts of the U.S., including the Mountain West.
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The rapid timeline from when the Idaho State Department of Agriculture found invasive quagga mussel larvae in the Snake River in September to when it deployed a chemical treatment two weeks later, was unparalleled in the world of invasive mussel control.
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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture is releasing a copper-based chemical into the Snake River to target invasive quagga mussels and larvae.
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The copper-based chemical Natrix can kill quagga mussels at all life stages. It will be introduced to the Snake River near Twin Falls.
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The Confirmation of Quagga Mussel larvae in the Snake River last week is a discovery that's long been dreaded for the Pacific Northwest.
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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture found quagga mussel larvae in the Snake River in Twin Falls.