> Hello all,
>
> I took the opportunity today to visit a Nature Conservancy mussel preserve
> on the Clinch River at Cleveland, VA. This was a field trip offered
through
> the Virginia Highlands Festival. We saw probably 15 or so species of
> mussels in one short stretch of riffle there.
>
> I probably spent more time looking at the fish while snorkeling. Big
> surprise! ;) I saw whitetail shiners, TN shiners, telescope shiners (?)
big
> stonerollers, tangerine darters, TN snubnose darters, a greenside darter,
> northern hogsuckers, smallmouth bass, and a couple other small
unidentified
> fishes. Visibility was not that good because of the scattered storms over
> the area the past week or so.
>
> The biggest surprise came after I got home. I was sitting down to the
> computer when I heard something scrape across my shirt collar. When I
> reached up to see what it was, a rather disturbed hellgramite fell into my
> lap! After my initial shock, I scooped him up and put him in my aquarium.
>
>
> Ranger Bob
> rangerbob_at_optidynamic.com
> Kingsport, TN
> "The power of humans to degrade the natural world is awesome; the
> capability to reconstitute it later is mythical."
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