URBANA — Last summer, research scientists with the Illinois Natural History Survey moved 1,200 endangered northern riffleshell and clubshell mussels from Pennsylvania to the Salt Fork and Middle Fork ...
Only about 25 living adult specimens of the Canoe Creek clubshell were identified in recent surveys. (Frank Chitwood/Coosa Riverkeeper) (CN) — One of Alabama’s most recently discovered and rare ...
The government said it will protect a rare freshwater mussel and the 36 miles of streams where it lives in eastern Alabama after a more than decadelong campaign by environmentalists to protect the ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to list the Canoe Creek clubshell — a freshwater mussel in Alabama — as endangered, and will designate 36 miles of river as critical habitat.