Bureau of Water Quality (BWQ) works with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on an exciting new freshwater mussel propagation project!
Freshwater mussels are essential to aquatic ecosystems because they are the natural “filters” of the waterways. They were once plentiful in the Midwest but have been depleted through numerous human activities. Native freshwater mussels are now protected (it is illegal to touch not only live mussels, but the shells as well!) and many of the…