Conservation in Action... spotlioghting the conservation work of the Asheville Field Office

Removing the dam provides aquatic organisms access to 44 miles of river upstream of the dam site. Two rare fish, the olive darter and sharphead darter were historically found above the dam, but today are only found below the dam. It’s hoped the removal will allow these fish access to the upper portion of the river. Removing the dam may also help the endangered Appalachian elktoe mussel, also found downstream of the dam. The mussel may colonize the area around the dam site, while dam removal should open up additional habitat for the mussel’s fish hosts. For more information, contact Anita Goetz at 828/258-3939, ext 228, or Anita_Goetz@fws.gov

Project planning and review

• Design and construction recommendations
• -Bridges
• -Roads
• -Sewer lines
• -Impoundments
• -Waterlines
• -Wastewater treatment plants
• -Towers
• Assessment guidance
• -Tips
• -Outline
• -Contents
• -Common flaws
• Species information and guidance
• -Bald eagles guidance
• -Survey times for threatened or endangered plants
• -Critical habitat data
• -Threatened or endangered species by county
• Project review publications
• -Small reservoirs - impacts and alternatives (.pdf 162 KB)
• -Fish & Wildlife Service project review(.pdf 127 KB)
• -Swimming with the Current - a local government guide to environmental review and stream protection (.pdf 5.05 MB)

• Asheville Field Office press releases
• Southeastern Region press releases
• National press releases
• National stock film footage
• Asheville Field Office image library

• Qualifying for technical or financial assistance for private land management
• Backyard habitat development fact sheets
• -Hummingbird Haven (35 KB)
• -Christmas Trees for Wildlife (46 KB)
• -Beneficial Bats (36 KB)
• -Bird Feeding (37 KB)
• -Attracting Butterflies (46 Kb)
• -Native Plants for Your Backyard (93 KB)
• -Invasive Plants in Our Backyards (119 KB)

• Programs
• Workshops
• Curricula
• Reading list (pdf)
• Asheville Field Office image library
• Podcasts
• Publications

• Endangered species, press releases, and issue fact sheets by Congressional district
• National Congressional and legislative affairs website
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Congressional testimony

Information on federally threatened or endangered species

• List of federally threatened or endangered species in North Carolina (pdf)
• List of threatened or endangered species by North Carolina county
• Regulatory background on species
• Species recovery plans

Information on species for which the Asheville Field Office has expertise

• Mammals
• -Carolina northern flying squirrel
• -Eastern cougar (extirpated from North Caroliina)
• -Gray bat
• -Indiana bat
• -Virginia big-eared bat
• Reptiles and amphibians
• -Bog turtle
• Fishes
• -Spotfin chub
• Insects and arachnids
• -Spruce-fir moss spider
• Mollusks
• -Noonday globe snail
• -Appalachian elktoe
• -Carolina heelsplitter
• -Dwarf wedgemussel
• -James spinymussel
  
• -Tan riffleshell (extirpated from North Carolina)
• -Tar spinymussel
• Plants
• -Blue Ridge goldenrod
• -Bunched arrowhead
• -Dwarf-flowered heartleaf
• -Green pitcher plant
• -Heller's blazing star
• -Mountain golden heather
• -Mountain sweet pitcher plant
• -Roan Mountain bluet
• -Rock gnome lichen
• -Schweinitz's sunflower
• -Small-anthered bittercress
• -Small-whorled pogonia
• -Spreading avens
• -Swamp pink
• -Virginia spiraea
• -White irisette

• Digest of Federal Resource Laws
• Federal Register
• Endangered Species Act fact sheets are found in the Publication Library
• Regulatory background on species