“While adult invasive carp have previously been found that far north, the presence of young carp indicates a spawning event occurred, possibly even further upriver. Silver carp eggs float downriver for miles through their early life stages before reaching juvenile size.”
Hundreds of Young Invasive Carp Found Closer to Lake Michigan Than Ever Before, Just as Work Has Stopped on Billion-Dollar Barrier
Sampling crews removed hundreds of small silver carp from a stretch of the Illinois River that's just 80 miles from Lake Michigan,
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![image of a painting by richard bohannon. description from article: [Bachman’s warbler, with Papa’s bow ties, Oil on wood panel, 12” x 12”.
Vermivora bachmanii (Bachman’s warbler). Last confirmed sighting in Louisiana, 1988.]
alt: overall field of lighting dim, dark background, highlight falling on the right foreground center, where there is a bachmans warbler perched on a slightly-open drawer of a wooden dresser: a small bird, yellow underside, black throat, brown back, and a black-brown-gray cap
on the left, midground center on an open shelf: a pair of bow ties. red-maroon with small white pattern on top of blue-grey with small white pattern.
quote by the artist from the article, "I have painted it alongside my grandfather’s two clip-on bow ties, out of fashion before I was born, which he wore to the fundamentalist church he faithfully attended."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:67uzrdi4segukgumlet42z2j/bafkreiafv7w7cwrk2o5twcny3ldzpgwhgyt55iesqauwztmtemlrw73gpe)
