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It’s feasible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, after Kopp’s term expired as a board member for the High Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the project, he asked not to be reappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not the project that I had in mind and others had in mind,\" he said in a recent interview. \"It’s a different kind of system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Hear more from Kopp and former High Speed Rail Authority chair Mehdi Morshed on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/18/high-speed-rails-original-champions-now-have-doubts/\">this NewsFix post\u003c/a>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years after California voters approved a $9 billion bond measure to build a bullet train connecting LA and San Francisco, the plan appears to be under attack from all sides. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in Los Angeles, the Peninsula and – as of last week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/14/2614819/kings-co-sues-high-speed-rail.html\">Kings County\u003c/a> – are suing to stop high speed rail. 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But their participation isn't a sure thing.\u003cbr>\nAt a hearing in Palo Alto last week, Assemblyman David Valadao, a Republican who represents the area between Fresno and Bakersfield, pressed members of the Rail Authority to be more specific about who would invest in the project, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told, in my office, that this was going to have private investment early on,\" said Valadao, \"and that people were lining up to do this. Now the business plan has changed? Why would I have faith in the system now?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investors are out there, responded Roloef Van Ark, CEO of the High-Speed Rail Authority. \"The people that want to fund these projects speak to us, and they continue to speak to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Ark and other officials say they believe investors will eventually fund the project because they’ll see that railways – unlike roads – can actually turn a profit, through ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California will eventually have to make changes to its infrastructure to accommodate population growth, said High-Speed Rail Authority chairman Mike Rossi. 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To propose to spend $100 billion on this is frankly ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says in order to accommodate population growth, the state should focus on improving existing systems that aren't working as well as they could, not building expensive new ones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The low-hanging-fruit is regional transportation around SF and LA. Why not build public projects that will get people off freeways in the places the freeways are most crowded?\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia: The Land of Big Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congressman Jim Costa, who represents the Central Valley, where the first leg of the rail would be built, says critics, like White, aren't taking the long view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We built Hoover Dam in the middle of the 1930s in the midst of the depression\" says Costa, \"when our economic times were far more difficult than they are today. We didn’t need the water then, we didn’t need the electricity then. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2011/11/2011-11-21-quest.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/highspeedrail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"highspeedrail\" title=\"highspeedrail\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27599\">In 2008, on the TV show \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBEzkIhtHg\">Capitol Connection\u003c/a>, Quentin Kopp -- a former State Senator, superior court judge and then-chair of the High Speed Rail Authority -- said he was more than optimistic about the future of high speed rail in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am convinced,\" he told the host, State Senator Bob Huff. \"I’m a believer. It’s feasible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, after Kopp’s term expired as a board member for the High Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the project, he asked not to be reappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not the project that I had in mind and others had in mind,\" he said in a recent interview. \"It’s a different kind of system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Hear more from Kopp and former High Speed Rail Authority chair Mehdi Morshed on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/18/high-speed-rails-original-champions-now-have-doubts/\">this NewsFix post\u003c/a>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years after California voters approved a $9 billion bond measure to build a bullet train connecting LA and San Francisco, the plan appears to be under attack from all sides. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in Los Angeles, the Peninsula and – as of last week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/14/2614819/kings-co-sues-high-speed-rail.html\">Kings County\u003c/a> – are suing to stop high speed rail. Costs have swelled to $98 billion – triple what voters were told it would cost in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last week, Republicans announced they'd \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF82et8n04zQciilKhOntqOGJj5A?docId=4304b67a5533402895d04bab413a2a93\">effectively killed\u003c/a> President Obama's high-speed rail initiative, which would have funneled $8 billion dollars to high-speed rail projects in 2012, and over $50 billion in coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kopp says he still firmly believes that high-speed rail is necessary, even inevitable, for California. But he's deeply concerned about the so-called \"blended approach,\" which was outlined in the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/pr_08242011.aspx\">business plan\u003c/a> released earlier this month by the High Speed Rail Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, high-speed rail trains will share tracks with existing commuter services, like Caltrain, and, at least initially, require customers to make several transfers along the SF-LA route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic concept that voters approved in 2008 -- multiple trains that would take you from LA to SF in less than three hours – has become a goal, rather than a guarantee. At least initially, riders will have to transfer. And most trips, it seems, will take more than three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not going to be attractive, in my opinion to riders,\" says Kopp. \"And you need riders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is ridership so important? Because it gets to what may be the thorniest issue of all: Who will pay for high speed rail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Pay for High-Speed Rail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of ticket sales, there are three basic sources of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Federal dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If construction begins by next October, the state will pick up $3 billion in stimulus funds, which – combined with bond money from the 2008 vote – will pay to build the first leg of the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rail officials say they need another $55 billion dollars from the federal government to complete the LA-SF route. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High Speed Rail Authority spokeswoman Rachel Wall said last week's announcement from Congress won't affect California's plans because the state won't have to ask Washington for more money until 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27601\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/photo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/photo.jpg\" alt=\"highspeedrail 2\" title=\"highspeedrail 2\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27601\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The project has strong support from unions, who say high-speed rail would create 600,000 permanent new jobs in the state. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’re looking to federal funding in the long term, but not the near term,\" said Wall. \"We’ll continue to work on this with Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, there are state bonds, which California taxpayers pay interest on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betting on Private Investment\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third, and much-preferred, option is private investors: Banks or venture capitalists that would be willing to help cover the costs. But their participation isn't a sure thing.\u003cbr>\nAt a hearing in Palo Alto last week, Assemblyman David Valadao, a Republican who represents the area between Fresno and Bakersfield, pressed members of the Rail Authority to be more specific about who would invest in the project, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told, in my office, that this was going to have private investment early on,\" said Valadao, \"and that people were lining up to do this. Now the business plan has changed? Why would I have faith in the system now?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investors are out there, responded Roloef Van Ark, CEO of the High-Speed Rail Authority. \"The people that want to fund these projects speak to us, and they continue to speak to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Ark and other officials say they believe investors will eventually fund the project because they’ll see that railways – unlike roads – can actually turn a profit, through ticket sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California will eventually have to make changes to its infrastructure to accommodate population growth, said High-Speed Rail Authority chairman Mike Rossi. So it might as well do so in a way that can generate revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These things last for 100 years and they cover their operating, maintenance and capital refreshment,\" said Rossi. \"I don’t know any road that does that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nRiders on the \"Rail to Nowhere.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But high-speed rail will only generate revenue if people ride it. And the issue of whether they will has become particularly controversial, especially given that the first stretch of the system won't be to either of the state's population centers, but through the Central Valley, what rail officials call the \"spine\" of the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, this was the least controversial route, the one where construction could start soonest. Rail officials, as well as Quentin Kopp, believe the middle section is a good place to try out the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109061000\">Richard White,\u003c/a> a professor of history at Stanford University and author of a book about the transcontinental railroad, have derided this route as a \"rail to nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s what’s gotten the project so much ridicule, says White. \"And it deserves the ridicule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says from a financial standpoint, there are just too many things already starting to go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding may never re-appear. Private investors may never materialize. Either of those scenarios leaves California taxpayers holding the bag. He says the state can't afford to take the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a state that is essentially failing to fund its university system, is failing to fund its K-12 education. To propose to spend $100 billion on this is frankly ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says in order to accommodate population growth, the state should focus on improving existing systems that aren't working as well as they could, not building expensive new ones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The low-hanging-fruit is regional transportation around SF and LA. Why not build public projects that will get people off freeways in the places the freeways are most crowded?\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia: The Land of Big Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congressman Jim Costa, who represents the Central Valley, where the first leg of the rail would be built, says critics, like White, aren't taking the long view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We built Hoover Dam in the middle of the 1930s in the midst of the depression\" says Costa, \"when our economic times were far more difficult than they are today. We didn’t need the water then, we didn’t need the electricity then. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/graywhale.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/graywhale.jpg\" alt=\"graywhale\" title=\"graywhale\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/graywhale.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2011/11/graywhale-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>One of the more remarkable migrations among marine animals occurs each year right outside the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late fall, the California gray whales passes south along our shoreline to the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez and the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico. Leaving the rich feeding grounds of the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska, these baleen whales travel along the coastal margins traveling a distance of approximately 6000 miles to breed and give birth. This round trip of 10,000 to 14,000 miles is considered among the longest annual migration of any mammal. Frequently these whales can be seen from our shoreline with great viewing site off the \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://www.ptreyes.org/index.shtml\" href=\"http://www.ptreyes.org/index.shtml\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a> or off Point Montara to the south. The whale is considered a conservation success story because protections instituted in the early 1930's have allowed populations to rebound from possibly less than 1000 individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading my last wildlife trip of the year with SF Bay Whale watching last weekend, we spotted a resident gray whale at the southeast Farallon Island, likely an individual among the two hundred or so considered to be resident. These whales are generally juveniles who do not participate in the migration but feed along the shores of California. As opportunistic feeders, the whales scrape along the bottom filtering out crustaceans with their baleen, or scoops krill from the water or even in kelp beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an undergraduate I studied these whales in Laguna Ojo de Liebre (also known as \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://www.ontheroadin.com/baja/bajarvparks/scammonslagoon.htm\" href=\"http://www.ontheroadin.com/baja/bajarvparks/scammonslagoon.htm\">Scammon’s Lagoon\u003c/a> after the infamous whaler of the name) and \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://www.miramar-adventures.com/BajaMap.html#CentralBaja\" href=\"http://www.miramar-adventures.com/BajaMap.html#CentralBaja\">Guerrero Negro\u003c/a> in the Baja Peninsula. Camping along the margins of an estuary, we counted and identified whales, monitored movements and even dived the lagoon to observe behavior and collect bottom samples. At that time it was believed that the whales did not feed during their visit to Baja, or along the way, but relied instead on the fat stored from the rich feeding grounds to the north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our observations of feeding whales, the verification of food in the lagoons, and other observations of feeding along the coast helped disprove that theory. Gray whales are opportunists, and this opportunism of feeding, migrations and non-migration may have helped the survival of the species. Back in the day before tighter restrictions were in place in Mexico, we commonly paddled our longboards across the lagoon to the sand dunes separating the calm waters from the sea. Juvenile whales would bump our boards and adults 40 feet long passed a hand's breadth beneath us -- with a grapefruit-sized eye staring back at us. Friendly whales frequently rubbed their parasites alongside our inflatable dinghy, as whales spy-hopped, breached and spouted all around us as we collected our data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recall surfing the lagoon mouth as whales passed through the narrow channel nearby, and slid on breaking waves from the shallow sand into the deeper channel, gliding over the whales' backs. Large tuna and sharks also shared the waters and it was not unusual to see a beached baby whale with the large serrated gnaw marks of white sharks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diving in the lagoon to collect bottom samples, whales would appear and disappear like grey ghosts or slide along creating a muck cloud. In addition to feeding on planktonic shrimp, gray whales bottom feed, skidding along the soft sediment, collecting mouthfuls of muck and loads of crabs, shrimps, isopods and other crustaceans and invertebrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like people, these whales are right or left sided, and older whales actually become blind in one eye from the continued contact with sediments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time around the American Civil War, the gray whale population was dramatically reduced by hunting in the lagoons. Especially vulnerable because of their coastal navigation, and exposure in what became called the “whaling lagoons,” the eastern Pacific gray whale population dwindled. Over 150 years ago, whalers like Charles Scammon slaughtered whales with abandon like fish in a barrel until the lagoons were described as vacant. Today, whale watch tours take tourists onto the Mexican lagoons to watch hundreds of these gentle whales. The old pier on Guererro Negro Lagoon still serves as a prime viewing ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/hOcxWkK0KQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Mexico to Canada, whalers hunted the California gray. In fact, a whaling station operated in the San Francisco Bay near Point Molate in Richmond to hunt and process gray whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Goo2MHirBLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sister population in the North Atlantic was pushed to extinction and a remnant population of a few hundred individuals lives further west in the Sea of Okhotsk and near Korea. After less than 75 years of systematic whaling the Eastern Pacific gray whale population had been reduced to numbers endangering their survival as a species. The gray whale was given partial protection in 1937 and full protection in 1947 by the \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://iwcoffice.org/index.htm\" href=\"http://iwcoffice.org/index.htm\">International Whaling Commission (IWC).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the gray whale is a conservation success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once estimated at less than 1000 individuals, the population of gray whales is currently between 20,000 and 22,000. Historically, this population is estimated to have been far greater. In 2007, S. Elizabeth Alter and \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://www.stanfordscientific.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:a-passion-for-service&catid=42:volume-6-issue-2&Itemid=59\" href=\"http://www.stanfordscientific.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:a-passion-for-service&catid=42:volume-6-issue-2&Itemid=59\">Dr. Steven Palumbi\u003c/a> of Stanford University used a genetic approach to estimate pre-whaling abundance based on samples from 42 California gray whales. The researchers reported DNA variability consistent with a population size of 76,000–118,000 individuals, three to five times larger than the average census size as measured through 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ocean ecosystem has very likely changed since the pre-whaling era including direct impacts from fishing the ocean and other indirect impacts making a return to pre-whaling numbers infeasible. Not all gray whales migrate. A population of about 200 resident gray whales stay along the eastern Pacific coast from Canada to California throughout the summer, avoiding the farther trip to Alaska waters. One of these resident whales has been regularly seen off Southeast Farallon Island in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New research has questioned past paradigms regarding gray whale migratory and feeding behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/06/gray-whales-likely-survived-the-ice-ages-by-changing-their-diets/\" href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/06/gray-whales-likely-survived-the-ice-ages-by-changing-their-diets/\">study\u003c/a> recently published by Dr. David Lindberg, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology with his former student Nicholas D. Pyenson, suggests that the whales appear to have more evolutionary plasticity than previously imagined. Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to the paleontologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it appears that gray whales may be highly resilient to environmental changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest gray whale fossils date back 2.5 million years, and since then, the Earth has gone through more than 40 major cycles of warming and cooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists propose that gray whales survived the disappearance of their primary feeding ground by employing generalist filter-feeding modes, similar to the resident gray whales found between northern Washington State and Vancouver Island. These whales filter feed for krill and other crustaceans similar to other baleen whales like humpbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new assessment is hopeful for the gray whales survival, and may help them survive the potential impacts of climate change over the next few centuries where an expected sea level rise of several meters, and where alterations in current patterns and temperatures are predicted. Let's hope that increased protections for these and other whales that visit our sanctuary waters, and protecting whale food like \u003ca title=\"blocked::http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/jointplan/mb_krill.html#description\" href=\"http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/jointplan/mb_krill.html#description\">krill from commercial harvest\u003c/a>, will help these magnificent marine mammals continue to survive the environmental change in the coming century.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Dante then accompanied another Stone Lab researcher on a good old fashioned Lake Erie “fish trawl” where he came across many of the lake’s native and invasive species-- such as the omnipresent \u003ca href=\"http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/main.php?content=research_invasive_zebramussel&title=Invasive%20Invertebrates0&menu=research_invasive_invertebrates\" target=\"_blank\">zebra mussel\u003c/a> and the abundant \u003ca href=\"http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?speciesid=95\" target=\"_blank\">quagga mussel\u003c/a>, two detrimental invasives brought in to the Great Lakes by the ballast water of ocean-going vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dante continued on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/ExperienceWildlifeSubHomePage/where_to_viewwildlifelandingpage/OldWomanCreekDefault/tabid/15312/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Old Woman Creek\u003c/a>, a national research center and fresh water estuary in nearby Huron, Ohio, where he encountered some frisky \u003ca href=\"http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/commoncarp/tabid/6589/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>common\u003c/em> carp\u003c/a> (\u003cem>Cyprinus carpio\u003c/em>) whose behavior may help scientists predict what may happen to Ohio’s interior rivers and streams, if their distant relatives from the east choose to join them. Next, he returned to Stone Lab to investigate how the Bighead and Silver carp have influenced and impacted the native species of the Mississippi and Illinois River ecosystems. He next traveled to Lake Erie’s Central Basin- to Cleveland, Ohio for a rendezvous with a federal employee who explained how Asian carp are being monitored and controlled in one of the most probable points of entry into the Great Lakes, Chicago’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sanitary_and_Ship_Canal\" target=\"_blank\">Shipping and Sanitary Canal\u003c/a> at the southern end of Lake Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, Dante returned to Put-In-Bay where he talked with Jeff Tyson of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohiodnr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio Department of Natural Resources\u003c/a>, who described the management techniques used to control one of the harmful invasive species in Lake Erie; the \u003ca href=\"http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/main.php?content=research_lamprey&title=...nu=research_invasive_fish\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Lamprey\u003c/a>. 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Mostly due to human carelessness, the lake has become home to an increasing number of non-native plants, animals, and micro-organisms which threaten the balance of the entire ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the WVIZ/PBS program, \u003ca title=\"Attack of the Alien Invaders\" href=\"http://www.ideastream.org/programs/attack\" target=\"_blank\">Attack of the Alien Invaders\u003c/a>, Dante Centuori, Director of Creative Productions at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greatscience.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Lakes Science Center\u003c/a> in Cleveland, Ohio, traveled in and around Lake Erie visiting with scientists and government officials who are investigating Lake Erie’s ecosystem, the challenges it has faced in the past, as well as those it may face in the future. 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If they enter the Great Lakes, it is feared that these fish will continue on to Lake Erie where they could further disrupt the Great Lakes’ most productive ecosystem, with unknown long-term consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26419\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2011/11/01/asian-carp-an-alien-threat-to-lake-erie/dante_hageman/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26419\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26419\" title=\"dante_hageman\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/10/dante_hageman-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Dante and John Hageman\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hageman from Ohio State's Stone Laboratory shows Dante Centuori an invasive Silver Carp.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dante first visited \u003ca href=\"http://stonelab.osu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Stone Laboratory\u003c/a>, a research facility located in the Western Basin of Lake Erie in Put-in-Bay, Ohio. 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Dante then accompanied another Stone Lab researcher on a good old fashioned Lake Erie “fish trawl” where he came across many of the lake’s native and invasive species-- such as the omnipresent \u003ca href=\"http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/main.php?content=research_invasive_zebramussel&title=Invasive%20Invertebrates0&menu=research_invasive_invertebrates\" target=\"_blank\">zebra mussel\u003c/a> and the abundant \u003ca href=\"http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?speciesid=95\" target=\"_blank\">quagga mussel\u003c/a>, two detrimental invasives brought in to the Great Lakes by the ballast water of ocean-going vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dante continued on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/ExperienceWildlifeSubHomePage/where_to_viewwildlifelandingpage/OldWomanCreekDefault/tabid/15312/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Old Woman Creek\u003c/a>, a national research center and fresh water estuary in nearby Huron, Ohio, where he encountered some frisky \u003ca href=\"http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/commoncarp/tabid/6589/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>common\u003c/em> carp\u003c/a> (\u003cem>Cyprinus carpio\u003c/em>) whose behavior may help scientists predict what may happen to Ohio’s interior rivers and streams, if their distant relatives from the east choose to join them. 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