Zebra Mussel on Steroids — Jeff Alexander (1 of 6)

Jeff Alexander is an award-winning reporter and author. For 20 years, he covered the environment in the Great Lakes region for Michigan newspapers, most recently The Muskegon Chronicle. Alexander's most recent book, "Pandoras Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway," details how an engineering marvel allowed a biological plague into the Great Lakes. Now a media consultant for the National Wildlife Federation, Alexander sat down in the Great Lakes Echo offices to explain what went wrong, why we should care and what there is to do about it.

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• Jeff Alexander
• Great Lakes Echo
• Muskegon Chronicle
• Pandora's Locks
• National Wildlife Federation
• invasive species
• quagga mussel
• zebra mussel
• Michigan State University

[supersmash43]

2:36 no wonder Lake Superior is so clear. It has basically been reduced to an almost dead lake!