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• Sandpoint to fight milfoil by hand

  May 20, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 SANDPOINT – City officials in Sandpoint are declining an offer from the Idaho Department of Agriculture to apply herbicide in Lake Pend Oreille near city beaches to eradicate Eurasian milfoil. …

• Mussel-laden boats stopped at border

  February 25, 2012 in Idaho on Page A6 Two boats fouled with invasive mussels from the Great Lakes have already been stopped at a mandatory inspection checkpoint on Interstate 90 near Wallace this year. Idaho Department of Agriculture …

• Mussel fight still tenacious

  November 6, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Tens of thousands of boat inspections later, Idaho and Washington have come through another boating season without getting invasive quagga or zebra mussels established in either state’s waters …

• Inspection stations find 24 infected boats

  September 4, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 At least 24 boats harboring invasive quagga mussels have been intercepted since March at Idaho’s roadside boat inspection stations. That may not seem like a huge catch from more than …

• Seventh horse has virus

  June 5, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B2 IDAHO FALLS – The Idaho Department of Agriculture said another horse has been infected with the highly contagious Equine Herpes Virus-1, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the state … 1

• Boat inspections begin in Idaho to deter mussels

  July 2, 2009 in Idaho Eight of 18 planned boat inspection sites in Idaho are open in an attempt to prevent invasive quagga and zebra mussels from entering the state.