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- noun Any of the
freshwater plants of thegenus Myriophyllum.
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The watermilfoil is a feathery submerged aquatic plant that can quickly form thick mats in shallow areas, interfering with swimming and entangling propellers.
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The watermilfoil is a feathery submerged aquatic plant that can quickly form thick mats in shallow areas, interfering with swimming and entangling propellers.
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Ryce and others surmise that the most likely means of spreading Eurasian watermilfoil occurs when the weed becomes entangled in boat propellers, keels and rudders.
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The researchers looked at invaders like the Eurasian zebra mussel, the Eurasian water plant known as watermilfoil, the Eurasian spiny water flea, the rusty crayfish and the rainbow smelt.
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Eurasian watermilfoil, curly-leaf pondweed, zebra mussels and others are inexorably advancing, carried from lake to lake on boats and trailers.
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After Eurasian watermilfoil was first discovered in
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His organization has also worked to pass the Aquatic Invasive Species laws last year, measures that combat nasty, uninvited species like zebra mussels and Eurasian watermilfoil.
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Association in the Brainerd area, said that Mission Lakes has spent more than $225,000 to manage curly-leaf pondweed and more than $30,000 on Eurasian watermilfoil.
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Clearer water also could increase vegetation growth, including the growth of Eurasian watermilfoil, another invasive found in Mille Lacs.
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Clearer water also could increase vegetation growth, including the growth of Eurasian watermilfoil, another invasive found in Mille Lacs.
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