Tagged Stories: "invasive species"

The invasive zebra mussel found for the first time in the Sassafras River, a tributary of the upper Bay on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Scientists with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have written some preliminary thoughts about 2011's bizarre weather.

The northern snakehead - an invasive fish native to Asia - has been discovered for the first time in several Maryland and Delaware rivers.

Biologists with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) are mapping phragmites along the York River .

It takes a lot of work to protect the critical land that borders the Chesapeake Bay and its streams, rivers and wetlands.

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Invasive species are animals and plants that are not native to a certain area and harm the ecosystem they invade.

This week’s question came from John in New Jerse

What kind of effect does the zebra mussel have on fish like the striped bass?

Recently, I joined forces with Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologists to seek and destroy water chestnut in the Bird River.