Check Out Our New Zebra Mussel Watch site!

     Wisconsin Sea Grant recently launched a new Web site to serve as a resource for identifying, reporting and preventing the spread of zebra mussels throughout the state's waterways.

             The striped bivalve has now made its way from the Great Lakes, where it first appeared in 1986, to 36 inland lakes in Wisconsin. Most recently, it was discovered in Madison's Lake Monona.

             The Web site provides background on zebra mussels and information on identifying them in the wild. It also includes a form that visitors can use to report a sighting, as well as a direct link to Wisconsin Sea Grant Exotic Species Specialist Phil Moy.

             Visitors to the site also may order a free Zebra Mussel Watch card, a wallet-sized identification and prevention card produced by Wisconsin Sea Grant and used throughout the region.

             The site was featured in a full-page public service announcement in the July 2002 issue of Wisconsin Trails Magazine.

 

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Last updated 20 December 2002 by Karl
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