You may have heard about Giant Salvinia and Zebra muscles are very harmful to big bodies of water. ” It’s a huge challenge to address these problems across our state, and no one organization do it alone.” said Tim Bird Song Draining lakes half way and putting crawfish into lakes are two solutions that will ensure aquatic plants to have a positive influence on East Texas ecosystems.

Invasive species- a species that is non-native. Invasive species are a problem because they have no natural predators so they just reproduce. You can put crawfish in the lake to eat the zebra mussels. Then all of the other fish can go it the crawfish but this is not working.

Have you ever been fishing and by the boat ramp you see a poster that says WARNING Giant Salvinia in the water? Well I have a solution for that problem. Step 1: we are going to drain the lake half way. Step 2: we are going to up root the Giant Salvinia. Step 3: finally we are going to spray some nature friendly her herbicide so it will not grow back. Everything in this plain will not harm any fish or other animal.

Have you ever been to the lake and saw tons of the seashells on the shore, well those are not seashells those are Zebra mussels. Zebra mussels are a big problem in the U.S. and I have a solution. Step 1: we are going to put crawfish into the lake. Step 2: then we will check on its progress. Crawfish will not harm the fish the fish will actually eat the crawfish.

So as we know putting crawfish into the lake and draining the lake halfway are two solutions. But they can’t do it all alone so we need your help to go farther into our research to better understand. Giant salvinia and Zebra mussels are such a big problem in the united states we can’t do this alone step in and put a stop to this problem.