Outdoor Radio: One Of The Most Endangered Animals In Vermont, Freshwater Mussels
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You can call them clams or mussels, the names are interchangable, but they should also be called endangered. Here in Vermont there are eighteen separate species of freshwater mussels and of those, ten are listed as threatened or endangered while several others are considered rare.
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