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Reversing a textbook tragedy.(mussel restoration )

Publication: Endangered Species Update
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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A recent sunny morning along the Clinch River was the setting for a homecoming years in the making. Local children, media, Fish and Wildlife Service staff, and conservation officials from Virginia Tech University and the Virginia Department of Game and Island donned...

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...Fisheries (VDGIF) hip boots and waders as they released artificially propagated freshwater mussels into a crystal-clear section of river at Cedar Bluff, Virginia. Amid supportive smiles from observers on the riverbank, the group was on the latest leg of a journey that began one day seven years earlier.

On August 27, 1998, the Clinch River turned milky white from the release of over 1,600 gallons (6,060 liters) of a chemical used in foam rubber manufacture. A tanker truck had overturned on U.S. Route 460 and spilled its load...

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