State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed plans to begin treating part of the Colorado River for invasive zebra mussels. The ...

Zebra mussels are similar to another invasive mollusk, the quagga mussel, which has not been detected in Colorado’s lakes and ...

Officials were baffled by the surprise discovery of a destructive invasive species in the Colorado River earlier this year.

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and a private landowner are partnering to contain and treat invasive zebra mussels in a ...

CPW coordinates efforts to combat invasive zebra mussels in Colorado, using a copper-based molluscicide and intensive river ...

Keegan Lund, an aquatic invasive species specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, holds up the shell of ...

Fast-spreading zebra mussels are stinky, expensive to remove and the top priority in Colorado’s invasive species program. By Shannon Mullane The Colorado Sun Thursday, Jul 3, 2025 3:54 PM ...

With the discovery of additional larvae this summer, the Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to the Utah border is now considered positive for zebra mussels. The river can shed that designation ...

Zebra mussels are making their way across Colorado Colorado Parks and Wildlife let Coloradans know that zebra mussels have been found in a private body of water in Eagle County this month. That ...

No additional zebra mussels were found. In May, Parks and Wildlife restarted its sampling in the region, taking over 150 samples along the same section of the Colorado River. The positive sample — a ...