DEEP Offering Training to Volunteers for Monitoring Boat Launches to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species

The training will educate volunteers on how to identify and detect invasive species and also to instruct boaters on how to do the same.  Volunteers will also be talking to boaters about ways they can prevent the spread of invasive species.  Volunteers will receive a handbook, supplies and a t-shirt that identifies them as volunteers.DEEP Offering Training to Volunteers for Monitoring Boat Launches to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species – Training to be held in Bolton Connecticut’s Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) is continuing to offer training for people interested in volunteering their time to monitor local boat launches for the presence of invasive plants and animals, such as zebra mussels.   Zebra mussels were discovered in Lake Zoar and Lake Lillinonah in 2010 and Lake Housatonic in 2011.  These were the first new reports of zebra mussels in Connecticut since 1998 when they were discovered in East and West Twin Lakes in Salisbury. The training session will be held Saturday July 20, 2013 from 9:00 AM until 11:30 AM at the Bolton Municipal Building located at 104 Notch Road in Bolton.  For more information or to volunteer, contact Gwendolynn Flynn of the DEEP at 860-447-4339 orgwendolynn.flynn@ct.gov.