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• News Releases 2011
• Washington Invasive Species Council 2011 annual report
• Fargo man charged with transporting zebra mussels
• Lake Oswego council takes a whack at invasive trees
• Santa Cruz County may ban bullfrogs
• Invasive species wreaking havoc with salmon fishing in Lake Huron
• EPA proposes standards for cleaning ship ballast water
• Invasive species photo gallery
• Environmental programs fall victim to budget cuts
• Tiny mussels invade Great Lakes, threaten fishing industry
• Invasive species are a blight on U.S. landscape
• Invasive species nibble away at your wallet
• Invasive species unleashed by Baronof Island storm damage
• Zebra mussel treatments on Lake Irene completed
• Boating season ends with close calls on invasive mussels
• Mussel fight still tenacious
• Bug battle: An invasive plant now faces its own attacker
• Invasive species boat inspections successful
• The threat of invasive species
• Invasive crayfish spreads to another Oregon river
• Two invasive species identified in Point Roberts
• New Oregon law targets imported firewood
• House ballast proposal panned by conservation groups
• Invasive Asian clams found in Lake Whatcom
• Voracious invasive quagga mussels gobbling Great Lakes' food chain
• King County Weed News, October 2011
• Zebra mussels in Texoma lead to seasonal pumping debate
• Local governments, homeowners paying price for non-native forest insects
• What can outdoor enthusiasts do to fight invasive species?
• Idaho preventing invasion of quagga mussels
• Act soon to halt invasive bush's spread
• Mandatory boat inspections begin in Oregon
• Invasive northern pike disaster for Pend Oreille native fish
• Citing California's wild pig problems, Oregon officials say it's time to act
• The benefits of stopping invasive species before they invade
• 'The lake left me. It's gone.'
• Invasive tansy ragwort once again threatening Oregon
• Watch out for invasive plants in your yard, garden, community
• Invasive bugs making a bigger stink
• Global warming: invasive grasses to thrive in warmer world
• More fouled boats identified as quest continues to keep quaggas at bay
• 'Eye on Invasives' newsletter from the California Department of Fish and Game
• New! Nonnative invasive plants of Pacific coast forests field guide
• Boat inspection stations open in Oregon to target aquatic invasive species
• Ash-borer plague takes a devastating toll on U.S. trees
• Invasive species inspections underway in Idaho
• WDFW conducting boat checks to stop aquatic invasive species
• Is the zebra mussel invasion irreversible? Spain
• Snail-sniffing dogs hunting down slimy crop killers
• It's Boating Season: How you can stop the spread of invasive species
• 'Buy it Where You Burn it' campaign aims to control insects
• Oceans in distress foreshadow mass extinction
• OSU uses camp firewood as invasive species education tool
• Oregon lawmakers vote to improve their odds in invasive species 'numbers game'
• Latest invasive weed not following usual script
• Middle Fork district cracking down on invasive species
• State Department of Agriculture gypsy moth summer trapping begins
• Oregon Lawmakers: No Midwest Firewood In My Backyard
• USDA establishes a new category in regulations governing nursery stock importation
• New zealand mudsnail discovered in Thornton Creek
• Climate change allows invasive weed to outcompete local species
• Boat carrying zebra mussels intercepted at Washington border
• Tenacious zebra mussel hitchhikes cross country
• New state permit helps control invasive aquatic species and protect our waters
• Stink bug spread worries growers across nation
• Spotted knapweed is the top invasive plant in Northwest
• Glacier National Park to inspect visitors' boats for aquatic invasive species
• Zebra mussels stopped at border
• Baseball's bug problem
• Oregon is watching for aquatic hitch-hikers
• Invasive spartina has been nearly eradicated from state's shorelines
• Foreign species invade San Francisco bay
• State Department of Agriculture begins spartina treatments for 2011 season
• Water threats averted
• Farmers monitor feral pigs
• Today's garden plants can be tomorrow's invasives
• Scotch broom, that pesky noxious weed, carries an economic cost
• Claggett Creek students got life lessons in water quality
• Get your 100th Meridian Initiative certificate
• Oregon invasive species database launched
• Dog trained to sniff out invasive mussel species
• Quagga mussels: 950 trillion tiny time bombs
• Invasive wild hogs move into New York
• Invasive mussels causing massive ecological changes in the Great Lakes
• Nutria Videos Highlight Growing Problem
• Report 7 out of 10 Seattle forest trees dead in 20 years
• Invasive species could cost the world trillions
• Shoshone-Paiute Tribes purchase unique boat wash system to prevent spread of invasive mussels
• Watch out for sales of illegal turtles
• Mussel infested boat prevented from launching at Colorado's Lake Powell
• How invasive species work
• Montana inspectors find quagga mussel on sailboat near flathead lake, came from infested Lake Mead
• EPA developing proposed regulations to limit spread of invasive species by recreational boats
• Nutria no longer another state's invasive species problem
• South Hill Mall gypsy moth environmental documents ready for review
• Canadian importer fined for Asian carp possession
• Extensive search, analysis efforts find no evidence of zebra/quagga mussels in flathead lake
• Pesky snails face deep-freeze death
• Invasive crayfish may be class pets first
• Unwelcome invaders: wild pigs pose a serious new threat to Idaho
• Customs agents eye valentines flowers for pests
• Oregon lawmakers consider banning out of state firewood
• Oregon gets a B for invasive species battle in 2010
• Invasive mussels 'everyone's problem'
• 2011 Western Aquatic Plant Management Society aquatic plant scholarship
• Oregon felt-sole ban
• A diet for an invaded planet: invasive species
• Quagga-zebra mussel action plan for Western U.S. waters
• Study shows invasive species trigger mass extinctions

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• News Releases 2010
• A Plague of Pigs in Texas
• Motorboat owners mostly complied with a state effort to control invasive species
• Harm of invasive species felt decades later
• American grasslands being taken over by destructive weed species
• Study shows state borders are no barrier to pests
• U.S. DOT announces $4M investment to combat invasive species in Great Lakes
• Time to flex those invasive mussels?
• Officials test suspicious larvae found in flathead lake
• Invasive mussel species might have arrived in Flathead Lake
• Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife in race to kill invasive snails
• Invasive snails pose threat if not eradicated
• Oregonians warned that imported firewood is a pathway for invasive species
• Invasive species, climate change form deadly duo
• Get your firewood locally
• Snail seclusion successful
• Invasive plants and non-federal Washington rangeland
• New invasive tunicate hits New Brunswick waters
• Agents follow snail trail at port
• Asian stink bugs invade Oregon
• Grant funding for freshwater algae projects
• Washington inspectors stop boat with invasive mussels
• Snails cause popular Boulder trail to close indefinitely
• Patagonia, Simms and Orvis Lead the fly fishing industry's wader transformation
• Oregon woodland owners want state to ban imported firewood
• Aquatic invasive species checks continue
• Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Hawaii Garbage Shipments in Columbia River Gorge
• Snail invasion closes Olympia lake to fishing
• Close call with quagga in Bear Lake
• Invisible menace at Oregon's doorstep
• Chemical to fight milfoil at Lake Tapps
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife service issues funding for priorities in Quagga-Zebra mussel western waters action plan
• Though Hawaiian garbage plan terminated, Yakama Nation continues legal action with eye on future
• Redneck fishing
• Cleanse your soles
• Menace growing in famous Seattle marsh
• Survey will look for invasive snail
• Fly fishers serving as transports for noxious little invaders
• This snail problem is hardly a mystery
• Powell not moving a mussel
• Emerald ash borer may devastate lumber industry
• Milfoil may have tangled swimmer who drowned in Horseshoe Lake
• USDA dedicates August to invasive plant pest and disease awareness
• Hawaiian trash could carry invasives
• Invasive mussels could cost 100 million
• Report: Mussel invasion in upper snake likely; economic risk 'Hundreds of millions of dollars'
• Economic risk associated with the potential establishment of Zebra and Quagga mussels in the Columbia river basin
• State begins trapping program for European grapevine moth, 3 other pest moths
• Scientists check whether milfoil-fighting bugs still in Capitol Lake
• Invasive mussel muscled out by small-scale cooling
• Bass-Shad study part of effort to reduce non-native fish impacts on ESA-listed salmonids
• Invasive Earthworms destroy North American trees
• World's oceans on wobbly legs as jellyfish poised to take over
• New pest in Washington
• Invasive species council releases video on boat checks, mussels
• Asian carp discovered near Lake Michigan
• 15 plants make Portland's invasive species list
• State Department of Agriculture begins spartina treatments for 2010 season
• California bans non-native frogs & turtles
• WDFW conducting boat checks to stop aquatic invasive species
• Giving felt the boot
• USDA announces additional funding to respond to expected grasshopper outbreaks in western states
• Follow the money: wealth, population key drivers of invasive species
• You can't run (or raft) from the law
• Idaho inspection site stops boat infested by zebra mussels
• New Zealand Mudsnails in Lake Tahoe
• New insect eats alder trees in the Gorge
• Volunteers attack invasive weed
• Parasitic threat to animals and the environment revealed
• Potato brush latest tool to fight invasive species
• Botanists race to record Arboretum species in Seattle's first bioblitz
• Field reports: Boat stations target invasives
• Aquatic Invasive Species program stepping up in Oregon
• Apps for Environmental Awareness: Use Your Smartphone to Battle Invasive Species
• Sea Snot? No, It's a Sea Squirt, and It's Plaguing Oregon
• Poisen hemlock may have caused Tacoma woman's death
• Oregon - State made positive gains on invasive species issues in 2009
• Invasive tunicate appears in Oregon's coastal waters
• New state permit targets invasie aquatic species
• Clean boats are best way to protect Idaho lakes
• Tunicate invasion is a threat to Oregon fisheries
• Invasive Kudzu Is Major Factor in Surface Ozone Pollution, Study Shows
• Aquatic life under threat in Stanley Park
• State grants help control non-native weeds in lakes
• Invasive species boat inspection stations to open in southern Idaho Tuesday
• Economists Work on Financial Cost of Zebra/Quagga Mussel Invasion in Columbia River Basin
• Pressure washer to blast invasive species
• Ban forbids taking live crawfish
• Invasive species make their way to Idaho
• Douglas-fir disease spreading along OR, WA coasts
• Idaho puts cash bounty on south fork Snake River Rainbow Trout to protect native Cutthroat
• Hard-to-kill snails infest Santa Monica Mountain watersheds
• Idaho boat inspections try to keep invasive species out of waterways
• Arizona Game & Fish - Don't move a mussel
• Two options for celebrating Arbor Day
• Alaska Board of Fisheries to phase out of felt
• Mud snails withstand salt water bath
• Capitol Lake draining today for snail project
• Tiny snails are a big problem for Olympia lake
• Briny death plotted for Capitol Lake's invaders
• Formal Public Comment - Aquatic Invasive Species Managment General Permit
• Biologists rush to protect Great Lakes from onslaught of Carp
• Ban on felt-soled shoes intended to prevent spread of fish diseases
• Capitol Lake to get saline rinse
• County not sitting on laurel
• Double Holiday Double Duty For Customs Inspectors
• Tri-state campaign to spread the word about the dangers of transporting firewood
• Invasive snails find amigo in El Niño
• Top Ten Invasive Species, Time Magazine
• Changes to WAC 16-750 and 2011 noxious weed list
• How You Can Participate
• State weed list 2010
• Region studies better ways to decontaminate boats with Quagga/Zebra Mussels
• Arrest warrant issued in zebra mussel case
• Eradication of Capital Lake's New Zealand Mud Snail may take years senate committee told
• Proposals being accepted for changes to the state noxious weed list
• Council's economic panel to evaluate possible biological, economic costs of Quagga, Zebra Mussels

Close News Releases 2010


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• News Releases 2009
• Holly, Ivy not welcome in Northwest woodlands
• Quaggaa-Zebra Mussell action plan for western waters; funding needed
• Christmas trees may have Pacific Chorus Frog hitchhikers
• State draws down water in hopes that freeze will kill off invasive New Zealand Mud Snails
• Capitol Lake ban smart amid snail discovery
• Agencies seek public’s help in curtailing spread of invasive snails in Capitol Lake
• Province joins battle against invasive mussels
• 15,000 reasons to worry about state's lakes
• New iphone app targets overgrowth in state parks
• Oregon boat fees go into effect
• Chinese and Oregon scientists join forces against invasive grass
• DOJ – guilty plea leads to ban on US port calls
• 18 gypsy moths caught in Washington in summer 2009
• Authorities investigate possible zebra mussels contamination on yacht from Wisconsin
• Slimy-skinned ships to slip smoothly through the seas
• State launches hotline, web site to report invasive species sightings
• Boat inspections planned on I-5 to stop aquatic invasive species
• Coast Guard to host meetings on ballast water
• Who's out first - Invasive species need to be removed in the right order
• Undocumented Immigrants - Millions of unidentified animals are pouring over U.S. borders
• Riding the recession - Global financial crisis might cause spike in marine species transport
• 'Ballast-free Ship' Could cut costs while blocking aquatic invaders
• Invasive American Shad numbers sharply down in Columbia; Ocean conditions or parasite?
• Northwest Power And Conservation Council urges federal action on invasive mussels
• Quagga Mussels called 'Biological Wildfire'; 'Nothing is going to save the salmon if this gets in'
• Tahoe report: fast-growing Asian clam invasion could aid western spread of Quagga, Zebra Mussels
• Mussels will eventually bug northwest dams, experts say
• Idaho State Department of Agriculture initiates invasive mussel alert
• WDFW starts mandatory boat checks to stop aquatic invasive species
• Web site would help state track invasive plants
• Oregon Invasive Species Council launches online calendar with teacher activities
• State grants to control toxic algae blooms and non-native weeds
• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife works to keep invasive mussels out of state
• Plan unveiled to fight invasive mussels
• Department of Ecology: State funds will combat non-native, freshwater weeds and toxic algae blooms
• Quagga Mussel field guide video (Oregon Public Broadcasting, 9 minutes)

Close News Releases 2009


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