The Invaders

Learn How To Stop Their Spread

By Wayne Gustaveson
Utah Division Of Wildlife Resources

The 2nd Annual Quagga Mussel (AIS) Prevention training will be held at Lake Powell on Wednesday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to noon at Wahweap Lodge — 100 Lakeshore Drive, Page, Ariz., 86040 — on the shores of Lake Powell.  All are invited.

Training will include a brief history of mussel infestation in the United States with an update on the spread of invasive mussels in the West during 2007.

Instruction on mussel identification, enforcement, and prevention procedures to stop the spread of invasive species will be given. Bill Zook (Columbia River) and Wen Baldwin (Lake Mead) will be chief instructors, with Mark Anderson from the National Park Service.

A demonstration of boat-washing procedures will be featured from noon to 1 p.m. at the Wahweap boat-decontamination station.
Attendees may include all who work in water-based recreational industry, agency and enforcement officials responsible to check the spread of AIS and mussels, biologists and other officials working with aquatic resources, business entities working with boats, and all others who are interested in stopping the spread of mussels.

Please come and learn how to be a part of this important team of workers from all walks of life who can stop the spread of invasive mussels in the West.
Please pass this invitation along to all within your group who would benefit from learning more about stopping the spread of mussels.