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Nature’s water filters 🦪  Freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered species groups in the Southern Appalachians.  The importance of their role in our ecosystems is often overlooked or forgotten, but mussels are one few animals that actually protect and improve water quality. They are natural water filters - filtering bacteria, algae, and other small particles from our rivers and streams. For perspective, a single freshwater mussel can filter up to 15 gallons of water per day, every day. Mussels are also a food source to a variety of reptiles, birds, and mammals & even the empty shell can serve as the nesting site for small fish like darters and madtoms after the mussel has died! Unfortunately the introduction of dams, water pollution, invasive species (like the zebra mussel), and habitat loss and fragmentation has caused a serious decline in mussel populations. The Appalachian Elktoe and the Appalachian Monkeyface are two of the most critically endangered mussels in our waterways. The Appalachian Monkeyface is so rare, the earth’s last remaining population of the species exists only in ONE place - a ~20-mile stretch of the Powell River in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. (Less than 50 of this mussel have been documented alive in the last 20 years!!) The Tennessee Clubshell, Cumerland Moccasinshell, Tennessee Pigtoe, and Southern Elktoe are just a few of our native species proposed for a federal listing. -Over 70% of all species of freshwater mussels are in decline -7% are extinct -21% are listed as endangered -40% are listed as threatened Helping keep our rivers and lakes clean of litter and chemical pollutants is one way we can help our freshwater mussel populations. 🫶🏻  Reducing/eliminating the use of lawn fertilizer and winter salt (on sidewalks/driveways!) is another way as much of it is washed into storm drains and streams.  🔍 Sources: Virginia DWR, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lower DuPage River Watershed Coalition
Nature’s water filters 🦪 Freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered species groups in the Southern Appalachians. The importance of their role in our ecosystems is often overlooked or forgotten, but mussels are one few animals that actually protect and improve water quality. They are natural water filters - filtering bacteria, algae, and other small particles from our rivers and streams. For perspective, a single freshwater mussel can filter up to 15 gallons of water per day, every day. Mussels are also a food source to a variety of reptiles, birds, and mammals & even the empty shell can serve as the nesting site for small fish like darters and madtoms after the mussel has died! Unfortunately the introduction of dams, water pollution, invasive species (like the zebra mussel), and habitat loss and fragmentation has caused a serious decline in mussel populations. The Appalachian Elktoe and the Appalachian Monkeyface are two of the most critically endangered mussels in our waterways. The Appalachian Monkeyface is so rare, the earth’s last remaining population of the species exists only in ONE place - a ~20-mile stretch of the Powell River in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. (Less than 50 of this mussel have been documented alive in the last 20 years!!) The Tennessee Clubshell, Cumerland Moccasinshell, Tennessee Pigtoe, and Southern Elktoe are just a few of our native species proposed for a federal listing. -Over 70% of all species of freshwater mussels are in decline -7% are extinct -21% are listed as endangered -40% are listed as threatened Helping keep our rivers and lakes clean of litter and chemical pollutants is one way we can help our freshwater mussel populations. 🫶🏻 Reducing/eliminating the use of lawn fertilizer and winter salt (on sidewalks/driveways!) is another way as much of it is washed into storm drains and streams. 🔍 Sources: Virginia DWR, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Lower DuPage River Watershed Coalition

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