WRP Supported Projects

Teaming with Partners to Develop AIS Resources

• Train the Trainer: Master Gardeners Prevent Aquatic Invasive Plant Introductions through Community Education and Outreach
  • Aquatic Gardens, Not Aquatic Pests: How to Practice Responsible Water Gardening
  • Practice Responsible Water Gardening: Tip Sheet
  • Aquatic Water Weeds Poster
  • Practice Responsible Water Gardening: Resource Sheet

• Regional Surveys
  • Northern range expansion and coastal occurrences of the New Zealand mud snailPotamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) in the northeast Pacific
  • Regional surveys and outreach for the non-indigenous burrowing isopod, Sphaeroma quoianum

• Professional Awareness of Flowering Rush in the Headwaters of the Columbia River System
  • Flowering Rush Video
  • Spatial Modeling of Invasive Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus) in the Columbia River Headwaters

• Analysis of Boat Traffic
  • A Risk Assessment of Recreational Boating Traffic and Aquatic Nuisance Species (Dreissenid Mussel) Invasion to Lakes, Rivers and Reservoirs of the western United States, Technical Report 2012
  • 100th Meridian Assessments of Boater Habits at Lake Mead National Recreation Area 2007-2008, Final Report for 100th Meridian Initiative at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area 2007-2008

• Watercraft Inspection Programs
  • Recommended Uniform Minimum Protocols and Standards for Watercraft Interception Programs for Dreissenid Mussels in the Western United States
  • Survey of Watercraft Interception Programs for Dreissenid Mussels in the Western United States

Zebra/Quagga Mussel Physiology

• Executive Summary: Thermal Tolerance, Physiological Condition, and Population Genetics of Dreissenid Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. rostriformis bugensis) Relative to their Invasion of Waters in the Western United States