File:Golden riffleshell mussels ready for release.jpg
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English: In September, 2017, a total of 700 golden riffleshell mussels, a federally-endangered species, were released into the Clinch River and Indian Creek. The release comes nearly twenty years after a chemical spill from an overturned tanker truck eliminated the mussel from the Clinch River; and after years of work to rear the animal in captivity by the states of Virginia and Kentucky as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Virginia Tech. |
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| Source | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region Flickr Account |
| Author | Gary Peeples/USFWS |
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This image or recording is the work of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. For more information, see the Fish and Wildlife Service copyright policy.
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| current | 19:41, 16 January 2018 | | 6,000 × 4,000 (8.46 MB) | Jessamyn | User created page with UploadWizard |
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