09-16-2008, 10:16 PM
From today's Salt Lake Tribune---
"Invasive mussels that have wreaked havoc on fisheries across the nation may have landed in Utah.
Wildlife officials recieved word from a Bureau of Reclamation lab in Colorado late last week that samples taken from Pelican Lake and Red Fleet Reservoir in the Uintah Basin and at Midview Reservoir on Ute Tribal Lands tested positive for the larval form of what could be zebra or quagga mussels.
Further testing on the larvae DNA will reveal which of the exotic and invasive trouble makers have migrated to Utah, although there is a chance the creature spotted under the micrscopes in Denver could be something other than the mussels. The DNA test results won't be available until the end of this week, at the earliest. "
Full article at [url "http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10470714"]http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10470714[/url]
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"Invasive mussels that have wreaked havoc on fisheries across the nation may have landed in Utah.
Wildlife officials recieved word from a Bureau of Reclamation lab in Colorado late last week that samples taken from Pelican Lake and Red Fleet Reservoir in the Uintah Basin and at Midview Reservoir on Ute Tribal Lands tested positive for the larval form of what could be zebra or quagga mussels.
Further testing on the larvae DNA will reveal which of the exotic and invasive trouble makers have migrated to Utah, although there is a chance the creature spotted under the micrscopes in Denver could be something other than the mussels. The DNA test results won't be available until the end of this week, at the earliest. "
Full article at [url "http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10470714"]http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10470714[/url]
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