[MAIPC] Is man's best friend also nature's best protector?

[Marc Imlay]

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/good-dogs-against-invasive-species

 

Good Dogs Against Invasive Species

By  <https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/authors/heide-brandes> Heide Brandes
| Dec 8 2019

In summer 2019, visitors to Oklahoma's Chickasaw National Recreation Area's
Lake of the Arbuckles met a new line of defense in the fight against aquatic
invasive species: a nose (actually, three) for detecting them.

The dogs and their handlers waited eagerly as visitors lined up their boats
to enter the Lake of the Arbuckles. Raine, a golden retriever, and border
collies Wisp and Darby had a job to do. They circled each boat and sniffed
for zebra mussels and quagga mussels-sinister little hitchhikers that attach
themselves to boats only to spread like a plague through freshwater lakes.

 

 

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