Threats and prevention efforts in Utah

Learn

Photos

Videos

• Quagga Mussel Risk at Sand Hollow

  (Video link)

• 100th Meridian videos

  (Video link)

• Zebra mussel infestation

  (Video link)

• Don't Move a Mussel 2011

  (Video link)

• Inspection and Decontamination 2011

  (Video link)

• DWR Fiesta Queen AIS Decontamination

  (Video link)

Documents

• What you should know about mussels

  (123 KB PDF)

• How the UDWR tests for invasive mussels
• How to inspect and clean your watercraft

  (81 KB PDF)

  • Additional photos

    (1.8 MB PDF)

• 100th Meridian Initiative strategy

  (657 KB PDF)

Links

Organizations

• 100th Meridian
  A cooperative effort between state, provincial, and federal agencies to prevent the westward spread of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species in North America.

• Protect Your Waters
  A site for recreational users who want to help stop aquatic nuisance species.

Government

• ANS Task Force
  The coordinating body in developing and implementing the national program for prevention, research, monitoring and control of infestations of nonindigenous aquatic species.

• National Park Service information on Glen Canyon
  Learn what you can do to keep Glen Canyon NRA free of this aquatic nuisance species.

• National Agriculture Library
  The Department of Agriculture's section on invasive species. It is a loosely organized section of news articles and some documents.

• Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) information resource
  The US Geological Survey's site on zebra and quagga mussels. This site contains information on many other nonindigenous aquatic species.

• Zebra Mussel Resarch Program
  Developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. This is an excellent resource for research on identification, life history and biology, distribution, slowing the spread, impacts and risk assessment, monitoring, management and control and bioaccumulation.

Technical resources

• AIS summaries

  • 2010

    (454 KB PDF)

  • 2009

    (408 KB PDF)

• BOR inspection and cleaning manual

  (12 MB PDF)

• Control plan for the Red Fleet and Steinaker Reservoir (draft)

  (444 KB PDF)

• Control plan for San Rafael (draft)

  (392 KB PDF)

• Control plan for Sand Hollow

  (12 MB PDF)

• 2010 Sand Hollow report

  • Main file

    (7 MB PDF)

  • Addendum A

    (.2 MB PDF)

  • Addendum B

    (1.2 MB PDF)

• Decontamination Protocols To Control the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species in Utah

  (101 KB PDF)

• AIS program fiscal-year 2009 status report

  (250 KB PDF)

• Informational Brief on Western Quagga Mussels

  (407 KB PDF)

• Technical inspection handbook

  (3 MB PDF)

• 2008 Summary of Attempted Control Measures for Zebra/Quagga Mussels

  (10.6 KB PDF)

• AIS program fiscal-year 2009 status report

  (250 KB PDF)

• Informational Brief on Western Quagga Mussels

  (407 KB PDF)

• 2008 Summary of Attempted Control Measures for Zebra/Quagga Mussels

  (10.6 KB PDF)

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