A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But a new study disputes the fish’s status as a distinct ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...

NEW AT FOUR. IOWA COULD SOON HAVE ITS OWN STATE FISH. A BILL PROPOSED AT THE IOWA STATE HOUSE WOULD MAKE THE IOWA DARTER THE STATE’S OFFICIAL FISH, GROWING TO ABOUT 2.5IN LONG. THE BRIGHT GREEN ...

The Monongahela National Forest is among West Virginia’s most cherished places — a realm of misty spruce groves, deep hollows ...

The wire trap in the small stream is for redfin darters, he said, a small, non-game fish that likes to hide under rocks.

GREENBRIER — At the end of a winding gravel drive, in the valley of two wooded hills here, is a small stream. As David Peterson tramps through the dried leaves along the streambank, he points ...

That fish, the snail darter, soon became a symbol for the use of an endangered species as a way to prevent the development of projects across the country in the ensuing years. After the ...

Federal authorities have again threatened to take over mine permit violation enforcement from the West Virginia Department of ...

Gamefish, dolphins, whales, ospreys, and other fish and wildlife species depend on them for a good portion of their diet. Menhaden are also the target of an industrial reduction fishery. Virginia ...