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Amphibious Planes
On Sep 2, 11:02 pm, Gezellig wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:39:05 -0400, Bryan Martin wrote: The Great Lakes have a big problem with zebra mussels, a salt water species that were imported in ballast water from seagoing freighters. They have thrived in the big lakes and have been spreading into more and more inland lakes. The effect being...? Having zebra mussels in a lake is like putting glass shards all around and attaching them to anything where the water flows. They are extremely prolific (1 million from one in a year), stink up everything, and the shells are so sharp that chainmail gloves are needed to handle submerged boat parts or dock hardware etc. There is an organization (the 100th Meridian initiative) that has been trying to keep ZM confined to the eastern half of the country. They had propagated as far as Kansas but in Dec 2006 they were discovered in Lake Mead. It was probably a single boat that did this 1000 mile jump, but now the west coast lakes can look forward to this. I am concerned that Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh is listed as having a zebra mussel infestation, which could quickly be spread all over Wisconsin by seaplanes. This is a very serious issue. |
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