An aquatic exotics exhibit was created by the Greenburgh Nature Center with assistance from the Fish and Wildlife Service. - FWS photo

Patience is the key to farming -- you plant a seed and within time it will grow.  Effective outreach is much the same -- you put out information that may take many months to materialize results. 

At Genoa National Fish Hatchery, staff are beginning to see results through establishing and maintaining their monthly station newsletter. 

After reading the station’s monthly newsletter, Travis Brady, museum manager of the Greenburgh Nature Center, in Scarsdale, New York, contacted the Genoa Hatchery.  He was interested in receiving information on the exotic zebra mussel. 

The Greenburgh Nature Center produces rotating exhibits for their visitors and wanted to focus an exhibit on zebra mussels and other aquatic invaders. 

The hatchery staff were happy to send the Greenburgh Nature Center pamphlets, stickers and other information about the problems associated with the zebra mussel.