New Zealand Mud Snails Infect Santa Monica Mountain Watersheds
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, invasive species

Photo: Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times

Ironically it's the efforts to restore those same creeks that likely led to the rapidly spreading infestation.

New Zealand have taken over four watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains and are spreading fast, expanding from the first confirmed sample in Medea Creek in Agoura Hills to nearly 30 other stream sites in four years.

LINK (Via:The LA Times)

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