Officials in Idaho are trying to keep quagga mussels like these mussels found in Lake Mead, Nevada, from taking over the Snake River in Idaho. (Courtesy of Dave Britton/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ...

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – Idaho state officials this fall plan to continue treatments to eradicate quagga mussels, an invasive species threatening the state’s ecosystem, after they found larvae ...

BOISE, Idaho — They are smaller than a finger nail, but have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across the country. Idaho is continuing its unprecedented battle to stop quagga mussels ...

TWIN FALLS (Idaho Statesman) — The invasive quagga mussels found in an Idaho river in 2023 were microscopic. But to state officials, their presence was enormous. Though the mussels couldn’t grow much ...

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MELBA, Idaho — A group of musicians from Colorado set out to prove whether music alone could sustain them during a three-week rafting trip down the Snake River. What they discovered was something far ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife deploys divers to check for highly invasive quagga mussels on the bottom of boats in Lake Powell, Arizona in 2013. (Kim Martin/U.S. Fish and Wildlife) Officials in Idaho say ...