WRP Supported Projects

Teaming with Partners to Develop AIS Resources

In the past, the WRP was able to provide funding support to complete high priority projects identified by the panel. The documents provided here are representative of those projects. 

• 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 snail Potamopyrgus 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 Inspection Programs for Dreissenid Mussels in the Western United States (UMPS III, 2016)
  • Uniform Minimum Protocols and Standards for Watercraft Inspection and Decontamination Programs for Dreissenid Mussels in the Western United States (UMPS IV, 2021)
  • 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