Appalachian Monkeyface News Today

Saving the endangered Appalachian monkeyface mussel in a high-stakes race. Fifty years after the Clean Water Act was passed, mussels grown in laboratories are starting to resume their unheralded mission of purifying waterways.

Freshwater mussels may be the most amazing Virginia natural wonder you’ve never heard of. Let’s start with their strange names — the Green Floater, the Creek Heelsplitter, the Atlantic Pigtoe,