[Foraging native mussels]

51 minutes ago, tjm said:

Not that deer weren't native, just that there weren't any in this area for a long time,

I didn't play on the Sac in the '50s, but in my memories of crossing it before Truman was built it didn't look much like these creeks. "some areas" does not mean all areas. I' never talked to Barnhart, so no doubt you know more than I. I did read somewhere that thousands or dozens of species of mussels were lost or endangered by the damming of the White. That makes me wonder if you mussels are even the same species? Not that it matters at all but those shells I saw were probably squirrel eggs shells.

Carry on.

 

 

 

Thousands or dozens???

 

 

There are 83-85 mussel species native to Arkansas....14 are endangered...1 extirpated.