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Article: DNR confirms zebra mussels live in Big Cedar Lake
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2000
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DNR confirms zebra mussels live in Big Cedar Lake
Body of water is the first in Milwaukee River watershed confirmed
to have the pest
By DON BEHM
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Town of West Bend -- All of the dozen hard-shelled mollusks pulled
from Big Cedar Lake last week by volunteer divers are zebra mussels,
a state biologist said Tuesday.
Two of the striped mussels likely were born in the lake this year
while the others are 3 years old or older, said Heidi Bunk, a lakes
biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources.
Big Cedar is the 17th inland lake and stream in Wisconsin, but the
first in the Milwaukee River watershed, with a confirmed infestation
of ...