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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture sent out an alert by e-mail to be on the lookout for a boat named “Hello” that was headed for Idaho covered in mussels. The boat was spied by a Utah doctor interested in the problem of zebra and quagga mussels that have infested Lake Mead and are at risk of spreading to Idaho. According to the e-mail, the vehicle was northbound on I-15 in northern Utah yesterday. It could have continued north on I-15 or switched to I-84 northbound at Tremonton, Utah, and officials fear it’s now in Idaho. Before it gets to any Idaho waterway, it needs to be decontaminated/Susan Drumheller, Idaho Conservation League. More here.
Question: Anyone having trouble getting the new $10 boat sticker to fight the quagga infestation?
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mike_s on May 19 at 11:49 a.m.
I hope someone spots that boat soon. This is the last thing we need.
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Sisyphus on May 19 at 12:21 p.m.
The efforts we've taken thus far to stop these are wholly inadequate, imo. Just a matter of when.
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redman on May 19 at 2:36 p.m.
OH, yea DFO, I am so excited about that new sticker I bought a few extras…you know like collecting stamps. Actually, I will not buy a sticker until next year, word on the street is you can only get them through the inept Dept of Recreation and Marine deputys are only going to enforce warnings this year with the fines coming in to effect next year, unless your stopped for the second time. You can still get out of it if you tell them the dog ate it, or it attacted too many zebra mussels.
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hmoffsuite on May 19 at 3:07 p.m.
Since I intend to be compliant with this new requirement of boaters, I went to the Idaho website to learn more. No online registration or ordering of the stickers but the do have a form to use for mailing in your order. I will go ahead and do this and see what happens. I am curious where the stickers are to be displayed on your boat. Fwiw, here is the State order form.
http://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/s…
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hmoffsuite on May 19 at 3:10 p.m.
My bad. They do have online ordering. I'll report back after I get my stickers.
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Arpie on May 19 at 3:12 p.m.
My sticker showed up unbidden in the mail last week complete with instructions on where to display it and how to attach it to an inflatable boat. I have no idea why I have one already.
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hmoffsuite on May 19 at 3:22 p.m.
Arpie. Out of curiosity, where are they supposed to be displayed?
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Arpie on May 19 at 3:25 p.m.
Just left of the registration sticker- I believe.
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JohnA on May 19 at 3:38 p.m.
I see they had numerous muscle cars at “Lost in the Fifties” last weekend. Now, we're gonna have a mussel boat? Hmm.
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danofthecounty on May 19 at 4:41 p.m.
Usually I get a renewal notice for my boat tags and take care of it by mail. I must have missed it this year because I realized I don't have one. No problem since I work at the courthouse. When I went to get my new tags I thought I'd get one of the boat launch stickers you need for the county and one of those new seafood stickers that the state wants. I found out that if you want all three stickers you can't get them when and where you get your boat tags. Hopefully that will get fixed for future years.
I thought all we needed was election consolidation but it looks like we also need boat sticker(s) consolidation since this is a pretty active boating community.
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hmoffsuite on May 19 at 5:00 p.m.
Arpie. Sorry to seem to beating this to death, but do they give you 2 stickers, one for each side of the boat? I see this as being another excuse for the Sheriff to pull you over to 'see what's going on'. I don't drink and when boating, I get pulled over from time to time and they want to know where I have been. Last time I had actually been at Eddies at Arrow Point and that really got their attention. Those Sheriffs can be a little to pesky at times. They are often confrontational as opposed to being ambassadors on the lake.
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Arpie on May 19 at 9:03 p.m.
Suite,
You're on the wrong lake. Come on up sometime. The water is fine.
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Arpie on May 20 at 10:23 a.m.
I read in the bee this morning that the boat was found in Spokane. The story credits blogs for getting the word out. Maybe it was a berry picker that spotted the boat.
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