Northern Riffleshell and Clubshell Reintroduction Project - Summary of Activities for 2017

Tiemann, Jeremy S.; Stodola, Alison P.; Stodola, Kirk W.

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Title

Northern Riffleshell and Clubshell Reintroduction Project - Summary of Activities for 2017

Author(s)

• Tiemann, Jeremy S.
• Stodola, Alison P.
• Stodola, Kirk W.

Issue Date

2017-12-15

Keyword(s)

• Epioblasma rangiana
• Pleurobema clava
• translocation
• reintroduction

Geographic Coverage

• Vermilion River basin (Wabash River drainage), Illinois
• Champaign County, Illinois
• Vermilion County, Illinois

Abstract

In 2017, staff from the Illinois Natural History Survey continued to monitor translocated populations of two federally-endangered freshwater mussel species in the Vermilion River basin (Wabash River drainage). Through 2017, a total of 3,699 Northern Riffleshell (Epioblasma rangiana) and 4,166 Clubshell (Pleurobema clava) have been translocated to the Middle Fork and Salt Fork Vermilion rivers in the Vermilion River basin, Champaign and Vermilion counties, Illinois, and these translocated animals have been monitored since being moved to Illinois. This end-of-the-year report summarizes the activities for the 2017 calendar year, and includes two reprints and a galley of a third paper summarizing data from this project. This relocation project is being funded, in part, by a natural resource damage assessment settlement (Hegeler Zinc—Lyondell Basell Companies) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and to the State of Illinois, and by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership.

Publisher

Illinois Natural History Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

Technical Report INHS 2017 (36)

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Damage Assessment, Restoration, and Implementation Project Number: IDNR-NRDA1504

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This document is a product of the Illinois Natural History Survey, and has been selected and made available by the Illinois Natural History Survey and the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is intended solely for noncommercial research and educational use, and proper attribution is requested.

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