Montana puts muscle into AIS prevention
Sea Me Paddle guide Tyler Cohran and co-owner Justin Flake lead kayakers out onto Flathead Lake from Somers Bay during a tour on Friday, June 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Montana’s waterways remained free of new aquatic invaders in 2024 thanks to the cooperative effort of federal, state, tribal and local entitles.
More than 100,000 boats were inspected in the state last year for hitchhiking zebra and quagga mussels and other species that wield devastating ecological and economic impacts if established. Of that total, 42 boats were determined to be infested with invaders — not one of them made into any of Montana’s lakes.
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