NFWF Grant Profile

Restore populations of three native freshwater mussels species by propagating them, raising them to a suitable size for release into the wild and introducing them into suitable historic habitat in the Virginia portion of the Clinch River in southwestern Virginia. Project will release 100,000 native mussels considered ecosystem engineers that are currently under-represented in the river, with the goal of raising overall mussel assemblage densities beyond 10 mussels per square meter.