Close-up of endangered mussel from the Ohio River.For more information about endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
Close-up of several of these endangered mussels from Hawkins Creek in West Virginia.For more information about endangered mussels visit
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
Lesage Island in the Ohio River provides habitat for the endangered pink mucket pearlymussel.
For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
Tygart River in Elkins, West Virgiinia, provides habitat for endangered mussels. For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
Greenbriar River in West Virginia, provides habitat for endangered mussels.For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
The Ohio River, running between Ohio and West Virginia, provides habitat for endangered mussels. For more information about threatened and endangered mussels visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html
Manatee cow and calf swimming side-by-side in Crystal River. For more information about manatees visit http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/manatee/manatees.htm.
Two manatee surfacing to breathe in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. Note scar on back of one manatee from boat propeller. For more information on manatees visit http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/manatee/manatees.htm
Two manatee nuzzling noses together in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. Note scars on back on one manatee from boat propeller. For more information about manatees visit
http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/manatee/manatees.htm
Two manatee foraging for food along bottom of Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. For more information about manatees visit http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/manatee/manatees.htm
Manatee playing with a crab trap line in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. Trap lines pose a common danger of entrapment for manatee.
For more information about manatees visit
http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/Manatee/manatees.htm
Two manatee rooting for food in bottom sand of Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. For more information on the manatee visit
http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/Manatee/manatees.htm
Several men releasing a radio tagged manatee back into the water. Vertical . For more information on manatees visit http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/Manatee/manatees.htm
Coachella Valley desert provides habitat for the threatened Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard.
Resource Links:
http://www.fws.gov/saltonsea/Coachella/CV_endspecies.html
AMNWR biologists worked over an extended period to recover the population of aleutian Cackling goose from endangered to its delisting in 2001. This album pictures the landscape, some of the hardships and activities of these hardy biologists
