On Nov. 18 and 20, Southeast Region Fish and Game fisheries staff and volunteers put on waders, loaded a drift boat with ...

Quagga mussels from Lake Mead, in Nevada. (Dave Britton, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) State officials and contractors will begin using a copper-based chemical in the Snake River near Twin Falls on ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) announced Friday that the quagga mussel impact area of the Snake River was reduced by 51%. ISDA referenced its extensive sampling, which ...

They are smaller than a finger nail, but have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across the country. Idaho is continuing its unprecedented battle to stop quagga mussels from spreading in ...

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Officials in Idaho are trying to keep quagga mussels like these mussels found in Lake Mead, Nevada, from taking over the Snake River in Idaho. (Courtesy of Dave Britton/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ...

BOISE, Idaho — The invasive quagga mussels found in an Idaho river in 2023 were microscopic. But to state officials, their presence was enormous. Though the mussels couldn’t grow much larger than a ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has lifted a hunting, fishing and trapping closure on a section of the Snake River that had been in place for more than 18 months due to an ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — The Snake River Animal Shelter will now handle all the animals collected by Bonneville County animal control officers. Beginning Monday, July 1, 2024, stray animals found ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Some Bonneville County Sheriff's deputies took a polar plunge Wednesday afternoon in the Snake River to rescue a runaway dog. They said the unleashed dog chased some geese ...

They are smaller than a finger nail, but have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across the country. Idaho is continuing its unprecedented battle to stop quagga mussels from spreading in ...

State officials and contractors began using a copper-based chemical in the Snake River near Twin Falls on Tuesday in an effort to kill off invasive quagga mussels that were detected again last month.