Fish and wildlife biologist
Address
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
United States
Contact Jason Mays
Areas of expertise
Aquatic animals - endangered species listing and recovery
In The News
Staff from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service are working together to find and recover the Alabama Lampmussel.
Yancey and Mitchell county, N.C. student explore streams in their community as part of the 2023 Toes in the Toe educational event.
Water, Mussels, and You Workshop at Stevens Creek Nature Center Provides Insight into the World of Freshwater Mussels
As a trio of kids on inner tubes quietly floated down the French Broad River outside Rosman, North Carolina, a nearby snorkeler broke the river’s surface, disturbing the quiet with a quick clearing of water from his snorkel. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jason Mays was searching the...
In 1834, a freshwater mussel collected near the convergence of the Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers was recognized as a new species – the Appalachian elktoe. Eighty years later, Carnegie Museum curator and University of Pittsburg professor Arnold Ortman couldn’t find any elktoes in the French...