aquatic invasive species

Lauren Isbell and Alex Egan, National Park Service scientists by training, recently found themselves diving more than 20 feet deep in Lake Superior, scouring rocks and dock pilings for any sign of fugitive mussels

You may not think of a flowering plant as a problem but invasive species like purple loosestrife can aggressively invade wetlands, alter water chemistry, block waterways and interfere with local and commercial fishing

Conservation departments and lake groups put a lot of time and money into removing and preventing aquatic invasive species.To help get a better picture of how that fight is going, volunteers will be out in droves this Saturday for Wisconsin’s annual snapshot day.

Volunteers will be out in full force over the next two weeks for the annual Clean Boats, Clean Waters Landing Blitz.They’ll be working to educate boaters on keeping invasive species out of lakes.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources asks those out ice fishing to help prevent the spread

Outdoor activities can spread invasive species on land and in the water.

The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards

Aquatic Invasive Species are some of the greatest threats to lake health in the Northwoods.Once an invasive establishes itself in a water body, it can cost thousands of dollars to remove it, if removing it is even possible at all.Rusty crayfish has been one such invasive species.First introduced to Trout Lake in Vilas County in the late 70s and 80s, the crayfish quickly settled in with population estimates in the thousands by the late 2000s.But now it seems nature is correcting course.

Aquatic Invasive Species are some of the greatest threats to lake health in the Northwoods.Once an invasive establishes itself in a water body, it can cost thousands of dollars to remove it, if removing it is even possible at all.Rusty crayfish has been one such invasive species.First introduced to Trout Lake in Vilas County in the late 70s and 80s, the crayfish quickly settled in with population estimates in the thousands by the late 2000s.But now it seems nature is correcting course.

Spiny water fleas are aquatic arthropods called zooplankton. Zooplankton are small shrimp-like creatures, and most of them survive by eating phytoplankton, the microscopic photosynthetic algae at the bottom of the food chain in lakes.