Mudsnails

gold creek is one of the jewels of the santa monica mountains shaded by a thick canopy of willows and sycamore as it flows naturally and is relatively free of july day to biologist rocks at the screen and examine them sometimes with a magnifying glass mark abramson says they're looking for snails about the size of a top official small small business are native to new zealand they looked like a ski season is from around here but when facing the opening in their show or just to the right side instead of the less new zealand but snails also can reproduce a sexually and prolifically in their homeland the difficulty is kept in check by a parasite that wants out of the country there seems to be no stopping them jacques developed a santa monica bay restoration commission say survey discovered near yellowstone ecosystem in it and seventy reported cases seven hundred fifty thousand square meters silver bracelet biologist suspect the

snail snuck into the western us initiative trial aig sent to a fish farm and there they hitchhiked other states probably on fishing boat you're hiking here the violent ethnic mark ivins and wade's downstream davidson is a researcher with feel the bay he studies what they reveal about the help of screens he fears the snails will push out supplies and he tries and dragon flies bugs of the bottom of the food chain fish effectively and legal frauds once things that are becoming rarer and rarer have more developments as waterboarding increases in various so the combination of these events is really a scary proposition laboratory studies of new zealand mud snails have found the trial forced to eat them starve for the most part the snails snapshot their openings slide through the justice system and pop out ready to reproduce again so the snails could threaten efforts to restore endangered steelhead trout to gold creek and others dream scenario where havens in here is the spot where

for three days until now that's a lot of dragon fly larva we have seen sales of them are still some for other mad river republicans were seeing lots of snails those things seem to be getting through montana state university ecologist billy kearns says researchers still haven't been able to prove that the new zealand snails are harming american streams it's been very difficult to detect it very well coordinated intensive study we have that fun to be able to do that by the time we find out about the impact for most of the things are they have the teeth chapter twelve doesn't find any new zealand man steals a full three just the natives they called lefties he catches up with bad researcher mark abramson survey mountain creek at its confluence with old buddy mark is

to let these women there's a little evil soccer and more scientists don't know how to get rid of the monks nails without harming other aquatic life they're studying the possibility of introducing the new zealand parasite that has freaked them that jack joe pelle says introducing another non native organism is a risky proposition because the best thing now is to control his breath and figure out what to do for now mark events and advises rikers horseback riders and bikers to stay out of creeks in the santa monica mountains view of normative audience in the plate or go to another victory for these forty eight hours to give your roots were ripped all the chance of thoroughly dry out state and federal land managers are developing signs in brochures to warn the public about the ecological threat of new zealand maoris in the santa monica mountains bills has that feel at nine point three kpcc it