Site Scouting and loggers out on Bear Creek

Bear Creek

Female (top) and male Epioblasma brevidens

Mussels found at one of our sites

Paul and Nate working hard

We did some site scouting on Bear Creek today with Paul Johnson (ALDCNR), Nathan Whelan (USFWS), and Jeff Garner (ALDCNR). We got to three sites and saw a large diversity of mussels with 14 species being encountered in a short period of time. Epioblasma brevidens were swabbed for genetic samples as part of Nate's research and temperature, depth, and conductivity loggers were launched at a site for this project. Looking forward to working more in Bear Creek!