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Article: Vt. Agency Fights Spread of Rock Snot
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- September 4, 2007
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ARLINGTON, Vt. - The state is plotting its next step in the war against rock snot, an aquatic algae that has infiltrated three of its rivers.
Environmental scientist Leslie Matthews of the state Agency of Natural Resources' water quality division, who attended an international conference on the algae last month, said the state will likely continue its outreach efforts in hopes of stemming its spread.
"We were assured we were doing the best thing we could do," Matthews said. "We were responding as other parts of the country have done to the discovery of didymo."
Rock snot is the nickname for didymosphenia geminata, or didymo, an aggressive ...