Scientists identify new home for rare, tiny rush darter By Alabama NewsCenter Staff April 13, 2021 The USDA Forest Service, with biologists from Alabama Power and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, recently found the rare rush darter living in a new spot in the Bankhead National Forest. The tiny fish has been found only in Alabama. (Dylan Shaw / Alabama Power) A new search in the Bankhead National Forest for a tiny, rare fish found only in Alabama has discovered it living in a spot where no one had seen it before. The USDA Forest Service, supported by biologists from Alabama Power and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, went looking last month for the federally endangered rush darter in a remote section of the forest in Winston County.