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Colorado moves forward with extreme zebra mussels eradication plan

November 7, 2023

Colorado parks authorities are moving forward with their radical plan to completely rid a lake of zebra mussels. Zebra mussels are a species of invasive freshwater mollusk that have infested lakes across the United States. […]

A close-up picture of a cluster of zebra mussels.

Colorado will go to extreme measures to defeat zebra mussels

October 17, 2023

The state of Colorado says it must destroy a lake in order to save it. Zebra mussels are an invasive pest that causes waterway managers across the United States enormous problems. An invasive species, zebra […]

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Colorado moves forward with extreme zebra mussels eradication plan

Colorado will go to extreme measures to defeat zebra mussels