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Utah sets up checkpoints in effort to contain invasive quagga mussels

All vehicles — even those not transporting watercraft — will be required to stop.

(Photo courtesy of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources) The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will be conducting mandatory checkpoints during busy boating weekends this summer to make sure quagga mussels don't spread from Lake Powell to other bodies of water.

(Photo courtesy of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources) The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will be conducting mandatory checkpoints during busy boating weekends this summer to make sure quagga mussels don't spread from Lake Powell to other bodies of water.

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 | May 3, 2021, 6:25 p.m.

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After being raised in California and spending a year in Arizona, Utah is the latest stop on Rebekah's tour of the Great American West. Everywhere she goes, she lugs along a pile of DVDs, more books than sense and an abiding love for storytelling in every imaginable media.