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Response Plans

Columbia River Basin Rapid Response Plans and Guidelines for Invasive Mussels

Montana (July 2025)

Oregon (Amended April 2017)

 -> New Revision: 2026 Draft Oregon Invasive Freshwater Mussel Rapid Response Plan  [note this is still a work in progress] 

Washington (July 2024)

Idaho

​​Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Response Plan: Dreissenid Species (2018)

Other State Rapid Response Plans

Northern Pike Rapid Response Plan for the Columbia River Between Priest Rapids and Chief Joseph Dams and the Okanagan River (2023) 

State and Provincial Rapid Response Exercises

Lake Owyhee, Oregon Invasive Freshwater Mussel Rapid Response Exercise (September 2025)

British Columbia-Montana Cross Border Dreissenid Rapid Response Exercise - Lake Koocanusa After Action Report (June 2024) 

Keyhole State Park Wyoming - Virtual Rapid Response Primer (May 2023)

Nevada Response Exercise - Wild Horse Reservoir, October 2022 - After Action Report (2022)

Montana Rapid Response Exercise, Fort Peck Reservoir After Action Report (2021)

Oregon Dreissenid Rapid Response Exercise, Lake Billy Chinook After Action Report (2020)

Lessons Learned - State Dreissenid Rapid Response Exercises (2019)

2019 Lake Roosevelt - Washington -  Invasive Mussel Rapid Response Exercise (2019)

Hells Canyon Dreissenid Rapid Response Exercise Summary (May 2019)

Montana Rapid Response Exercise After Action Report, Flathead Lake (September 2018)

Washington State Rapid Response Exercise After Action Report, Lincoln Rock State Park, Wenatchee, WA (October 2017)

Jackson Lake Rapid Response Exercise After Action Report, Jackson Lake Wyoming (May 2016)

2013 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Prineville Reservoir, Oregon (April 2013)

2011 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Lake Koocanusa, Libby, Montana (October 2011)

2010 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Lake Roosevelt, Spokane, Washington (September 2010)

2009 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Boise Idaho (April 2009)

2008 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Portland, Oregon (October 2008)

2007 Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Rapid Response Exercise, Vancouver, Washington (October 2007)

Federal Rapid Response Plans

2023 Federal Mussels Rapid Response Resource List and POCs

​NISC White Paper, Federal Invasive Species Rapid Response Fund:  Criteria and Considerations for Establishment (May 2022)

Moss Ball Incident Action Report (Columbia River Basin AIS Team, July 2021) 

​Columbia River Basin Dreissenid Mussel Rapid Response Action Plan Programmatic Environmental Assessment (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division/Walla Walla District, 2019)

​The U.S. Department of the Interior. 2016. Safeguarding America’s lands and waters from invasive species: A national framework for early detection and rapid response, Washington D.C., 55pp.

A National Early Detection and Rapid Response System for Invasive Plants in the United States (Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds (2003)

Provincial Rapid Response Plans/Guidelines

Alberta Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Rapid Response Plan (2019)
Dreissenid Mussels and Alberta’s Irrigation Infrastructure: Strategic Pest Management Plan and Cost Estimate (2018)

Invasive Mussel Prevention Framework for Western Canada (2018)

​The Inter-Provincial Territorial Agreement for Co-ordinated Regional Defence Against Invasive Species (2016) 
Zebra and quagga mussel early detection and rapid response plan for British Columbia (2015)

© 2026 Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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