Fighting for mussels

Date Shot/Created
Circa 2024
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Public Domain
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Using muscles for mussels! U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Linnéa Gullikson (right) and Lauren Kong (left) flex their conservation might during a western ridged mussel translocation in the Klamath River led by the Klamath Falls field office. In total, the translocation effort moved 4,335 western ridged mussels out of the path of sedimentation impacts from the Iron Gate Dam removal. USFWS photo/Christie Nichols