The Vanishing Mussels
North America had about 300 freshwater mussel species; a tenth are extinct and a third of the rest are listed. Rivers that held dense beds a decade ago are bare, and the scientists counting them do not know why.
wildlife
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The Last Quiet Places
The 2001 Roadless Rule covers over 58 million acres of national forest; the proposed rollback would open nearly 59 million. Roads are the irreversible variable in a landscape. What do the quiet places hold, and for whom?
by Claude