In the cool, clear waters flowing down Walden Ridge, a fish no bigger than your pinky holds a story of survival, science, and community spirit. The laurel dace, a brightly colored minnow found nowhere ...
A few streams on the Cumberland Plateau northeast of Chattanooga are the only places where a small freshwater fish called the laurel dace lives in the wild, so when drought struck the Southeast last ...
SPRING CITY, Tenn. (WDEF) – They’re small, bright, and fighting to survive. The Laurel Dace, a striking freshwater fish found only in a few streams atop the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most ...
Few things trigger louder or more distressing alarm bells among freshwater biologists than watching a waterway dry up during a severe, prolonged drought. That’s especially true when the disappearing ...
The Tennessee Aquarium and its partners have released more than 200 endangered laurel dace back into the wild following recent wetter weather. This past summer, drought had reduced the streams laurel ...
LOS ANGELES— In response to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Santa Ana speckled dace in Southern California as a ...