News Topic: Invasive Species

News Topic(s): What's New  Invasive Species  Fishing  

08/17/2010 - Zebra mussels, discovered three weeks ago in Lake Minnetonka, have since been found in several areas on the eastern portion of the large lake, suggesting a breeding population has been there at least a year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said.

News Topic(s): What's New  News!  Invasive Species  

08/06/2010 - Mandy Chowen of Clearwater offers a painting and description.

Harmless/Beneficial was inspired by the Asian lady beetle infestation experienced by North America.  This invasive species, with the inability to winter over out of doors, has decreased the pleasures of the fall on my rural property in central Minnesota.  These creatures get into the house after the soybean harvest and fill up my studio/shed with their bodies huddled together giving the building a distinct smell and then bite me when irritated. 

Whether this invasion was intentional to control agricultural pests or accidentally transported here, every action we take as humans has a consequence.  In my recent works I have tried to depict a human engineered environmental future that may not be pleasant but attempts to insure our survival as a species.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  News!  Invasive Species  Christine  

08/05/2010 - Have you spent a summer day at one of our 10,000 lakes yet this summer? Packed up your family or friends, grabbed a picnic, and spent a few hours on the beach or the boat? Chances are, you have. And if you have, it’s quite likely encountered one of the biggest threats to our once-pristine waters: milfoil.

Eurasian watermilfoil – or more colloquially, milfoil – was first discovered in Minnesota over twenty years ago in 1987, in Lake Minnetonka. It has now spread to approximately a hundred Minnesota bodies of water, including the Mississippi River and Lake Superior, as well as Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Invasive Species  

07/29/2010 - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists have confirmed a report that several tiny zebra mussels have been found in Lake Minnetonka. They’re attached to rocks along the shore on the east side of Wayzata Bay near Highway 101.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Invasive Species  

07/15/2010 - Eurasian watermilfoil, a nonnative invasive plant that crowds out other aquatic vegetation that is more beneficial to fish and wildlife, has been discovered growing in Pelican Lake, in Wright County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced.
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