The 100th Meridian Initiative
Download or Read eBook The 100th Meridian Initiative PDF written by U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2015-02-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1507642369 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781507642368 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The 100th Meridian Initiative by : U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Book excerpt: Zebra mussels are prolific alien invaders that have rapidly becomeestablished in waters of the eastern United States and Canada. Thesenatives of the Black, Caspian, Azov and Aral Sea drainage basins were firstdiscovered in Lake St. Clair near Detroit, Michigan, in 1988. By 1991, theyhad spread throughout the Great Lakes basin and are now establishedthroughout the Mississippi River basin and are spreading west intoOklahoma. Except for Oklahoma, zebra mussels have not been detected inopen waters of the West. However, without effective prevention measures, their invasion into the West is a real and imminent possibility
