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Idaho Department of Agriculture outlines expanded response after quagga mussel detections in the Mid‑Snake
Summary
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture told the Senate Agriculture Committee it has expanded sampling and inspections after limited quagga mussel veliger detections in the Mid‑Snake River and carried out an expanded 2024 molluscicide treatment.
Chanel Tewall, director of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, and Nick (bureau chief, Invasive Species Program) described expanded monitoring and a large response after limited quagga mussel detections in the Mid‑Snake River.
Tewall told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the Idaho Invasive Species Act (passed in 2008) requires the agency to maintain boat check stations and a response program. She said the department doubled sampling statewide and increased watercraft inspections by roughly 50 percent since last year. “We fulfilled that promise,” Tewall said, referring to a commitment to increase monitoring statewide.
The department summarized 2023 and 2024 actions. In 2023 the agency carried out what it described as the largest treatment of its kind attempted in North America. In…
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