Federal protection granted for imperiled freshwater mussels

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it was granting protection to longsolid and round hickorynut mussels, which have declined in many Eastern and Midwestern streams. Flourishing mussel populations signal healthy streams, but about two-thirds of the continent’s freshwater mussels are imperiled.

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