Quagga Mussels

Inspectors are finding a rash of boats carrying invasive species into Montana, though the boating season’s busiest stretch is yet to come.

With warmer weather and the Spring Mack Days fishing tournament approaching, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is resuming watercraft inspections for invasive mussels.

Watercraft inspectors in Montana have intercepted a record number of boats carrying invasive mussels this season.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has detected over a dozen boats with various aquatic invasive species on board so far this year. The detections come as...

Early season boat inspections have begun in the northwest corner of Montana in an effort to block aquatic invasive species.Invaders like quagga and zebra…

Montana’s U.S. Senators on Wednesday introduced a bill aimed at stopping the spread of aquatic invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels. They have…

State and tribal officials announced Thursday that a boat carrying invasive zebra mussels slipped through two Montana inspection stations, but...

The first discovery of an invasive snail west of the Continental Divide in Montana is pushing wildlife officials to quarantine a fish hatchery south of…

Flathead Lake continues to defy national trends as a healthy blue body of water that’s free of invasive mussels. That’s according to the director of the...

Western governors want to see more federal action to combat tiny but destructive creatures: invasive mussels. A quagga mussel is only about the size of...