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The mussels can wreak havoc on waterways. A new contest offers thousands of dollars for ideas to stop the spread.

Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado River was a one-time event, not a sign of a larger problem lurking beneath ...

This is a bronze, two blade propeller on a stainless steel shaft on a 36 foot sailboat, covered in zebra mussels.© iStock.com/JeffCaughey According to the University ...

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 ...

New rounds of samples for the voracious creatures keep turning up positive, complicating containment The Colorado River is now officially “positive” for invasive zebra mussels for longer stretches in ...

State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials discovered a large number of adult zebra mussels in a ...

Invasive zebra mussel larvae have been confirmed in Tanners Lake in Landfall. Officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that a recent DNR analysis of water samples ...