Olympia Update
State facing worst-ever ecological disaster from a tiny mussel
March 7, 2024
OLYMPIA–Back in February 2020, I met Puddles, Washington state's first mussel detection dog, and her handler, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Pam Taylor. A rescue dog from a shelter in California, Puddles, a Jack Russell terrier mix, was brought to Washington state in 2019 and trained to sniff out zebra and quagga mussels.
The mussels are smaller than a thimble. In 2020, while...
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