If you get a wire seal attached to your boat and trailer when leaving Lake Whatcom, and then come back to Lake Whatcom another day with the tether still intact, will you need to stop at a staffed inspection station?

Zebra and quagga mussels can create long-term taste and odor issues in drinking water supplies and clog water intake structures.

It only takes one plant fragment to start a new population of Eurasian watermilfoil.

In the state of Washington you can be fined for towing a boat/trailer on the road with plant fragments attached.

Quagga and zebra mussels came to North America in the ballast tanks and on the anchor chains of large, transoceanic ships that entered the Great Lakes.

What are the three important steps for preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species that should be done every time you go boating?