Natural Resource Restoration in the Wabash and White Rivers Freshwater Mussel Augmentation Draft Restoration Plan

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, (the Trustees) have prepared a Draft Restoration Plan (RP) to identify and analyze proposed projects that will restore natural resources injured and ecological services lost due to discharges of oil in the lower Wabash River watershed. Specifically, this RP proposes restoration projects to augment existing populations of rare, threatened and endangered freshwater mussels in or near areas where they still exist.

Author(s)
Publication date
Program
A rocky shoreline of a river. The water is calm. Mist and green branches line the river.
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Ecosystem