ARTICLES BY KEN RAND

A new way to look for invasive species using eDNA

In 2012, the National Park Service found a few quagga mussels growing in Lake Powell, a vast reservoir on the Colorado River in Arizona and Utah. They had been there for years.

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eDNA

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Flathead Lake

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Virgil Dupuis

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Underwater invaders: Many invasive species pose threats to lake

On a dock that leads from the pine-bordered shoreline of Flathead Lake, I lean over and look into the clear green water as hundreds of native Northern pike minnow swim carefree through the gaps of timber structure of the dock. In the warming water of spring the fish are spawning. …

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