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Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels--70 percent of North American species are imperiled--will mean for humans and wildlife alike. Landis shares this journey, traveling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist.--

Freshwater mussels. --- Freshwater mussels --- Stream ecology --- Freshwater biodiversity conservation --- Freshwater biodiversity conservation. --- Stream ecology. --- River ecology --- Freshwater ecology --- Hyporheic zones --- Conservation of freshwater biodiversity --- Freshwater biological diversity conservation --- Aquatic biodiversity conservation --- Freshwater biodiversity --- Clams, Freshwater --- Fresh-water mussels --- Freshwater clams --- Mussels, Fresh-water --- Naiades (Mollusks) --- Naiads (Mollusks) --- Unionacea --- Freshwater invertebrates --- Mussels --- Unionoida --- Conservation --- Southern States. --- American South --- American Southeast --- Former Confederate States --- Southeast --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- The South --- U.S.