[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:45 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:
>Wa written:> >
> > >
> > I haven't heard anything about it...and I live in Maryland...but with
> > all the other wildlife "stuff" going on here, one never knows...bears,
> > coyotes, foxes...and, of course, the all-time winner, that fish from
> > China (can't remember its name) that's threatening our local aquatic life!
> >
>Northern snakehead IIRC is the name you are looking for.

Is that the one they've called 'Frankenfish', that can actually get out of 
the water and _walk_ aways to the next stream/lake/pond? They're pretty 
ugly. And they'll eat about anything.

We have trouble with invasive plants here, but I can't think of any beasts 
that are a problem, unless you count that rat-like water-dwelling mammal 
near Corvallis... (Am I gonna catch it for that one! ;-)

'Lainie

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