Recommended Best Management Practices for Projects Affecting Texas Freshwater Mussel Rivers, Streams, and Tributaries

Recommended Best Management Practices for Projects Affecting Texas Freshwater Mussel Rivers, Streams, and Tributaries
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Best Management Practices (BMPs) that are intended to prevent or reduce habitat degradation caused by erosion, sedimentation, contaminants, or the addition of physical materials into a water body associated with project construction activities within or adjacent to streams inhabited (or potentially inhabited) by Texas freshwater mussels.

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A collage of twenty-six photos of animals, staff doing field work, and landscapes that Austin ecological services field office is responsible for.
Austin Ecological Services Field Office
The Austin Ecological Services Field Office is one of four field offices throughout the state of Texas under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Ecological Services program. This program works closely with our partners to conserve the nation's fish, wildlife, plants and habitat by providing...
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Austin,TX
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Public Domain
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A rocky shoreline of a river. The water is calm. Mist and green branches line the river.
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
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Baileys Crossroads,VA
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Southwest