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WLFW Communications Workspace: Private workspace for WLFW communications team.

Watershed Decision Tool Webinar Series (UPDATE): The USFWS Southeast Region Office is sponsoring a webinar series on Watershed Decision Tools with the aim of promoting awareness of the many various watershed prioritization tools available to assist in planning conservation actions and fostering discussion about how each tool is or could be used, applicability and limitations, and possible future improvements and needs. We currently have 4 remaining webinars scheduled and hope to add more. We have switched to a new webex platform to enable recording and archiving of webinar presentations, so login details for the series has changed.

Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership FY 2018 Call for Project Proposals: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) anticipates receiving appropriations in FY 2018 to support the Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership (ORBFHP) and its efforts to complete on-the-ground, aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement projects.

FY 2018 Brook Trout Conservation Funding Opportunity: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture are jointly requesting project proposals that are focused on Brook Trout conservation actions. Project applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on September 22, 2017.

Chesapeake Executive Council signs resolution in support of Bay Program partnership: Today, at the annual meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council, representatives from the six Chesapeake Bay watershed states, the District of Columbia and the Chesapeake Bay Commission signed a resolution in support of the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.

Conserving the Tennessee River Basin: It Takes a Village: Nearly as diverse as the wildlife within the Basin are the people and organizations working to conserve it.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Finds Yellow Lance Mussel Warrants Endangered Species Act Protection: A freshwater mussel native to waters from Maryland to North Carolina along the Atlantic seaboard is declining.

First-of-its-kind Interactive Map Brings Together 40 Years of Water-Quality Data: A new U.S. Geological Survey interactive map provides a comprehensive, long-term look at changes in the quality of our nation’s rivers and streams over the last four decades.

Saving an Endangered Southern River: The Conasauga River courses through Jimmy Petty’s corn, bean and dairy farm near the Tennessee line.

Final EPA/USGS Technical Report: Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration: A new report provides scientific and technical information related to protection of aquatic life from effects of hydrologic alteration.

Looking Forward: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate: An updated report addressing ways to build resilience to climate change for water resources has been released by the federal Water Resources and Climate Change Workgroup.

Landscape Conservation Design Phase II: Assessing Aquatic Integrity: Over the last year, a coordinated series of consultations with experts across the region has resulted in priority aquatic species, habitats, and ecosystems into Phase II of the Appalachian LCC Landscape Conservation Design (LCD).

Request for Proposals - Conservation Web Map for the Little Tennessee River Native Fish Conservation Area Partnership: The Little Tennessee River Native Fish Conservation Area Partnership seeks a qualified contractor to collaborate with the Partnership to develop a web‐based watershed assessment, planning, and interactive mapping system that showcases conservation goals and target focus areas in the Little Tennessee River basin and also allows interactive collaboration, analysis, and data management of this web‐based watershed plan.

SARP's Latest News Update: Periodic news updates from the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership.

The Powell River gets Infusion of Freshwater Mussels in Restoration Effort: They're small, slimy and extremely slow moving. Freshwater mussels may not pass the eye test as one of nature's key players, but the unique filter-feeding creatures are vital to the ecological health of rivers and streams.

A Race Against the Clock for Brook Trout Conservation: Are brook trout destined for extinction? That is a future that Shannon White, a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Tyler Wagner at the USGS Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Penn State University, is working to avoid.

Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region: A new study from the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) and Cornell University looks at how the region's surface freshwater supply – and the health of natural systems delivering this resource – have been impacted and may be altered in the coming years under increasing water withdrawals.

Tennessee River Basin Biodiversity Network Meeting: The Tennessee River Basin Biodiversity Network (Network) is a collaborative effort of conservation interests that is focused on increasing the efficiency, effectiveness, and durability of conservation actions in streams and rivers of the region.

Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership 2017 Call for Project Proposals: The Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership is currently accepting proposals to fund on-the-ground, aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement projects within the Ohio River Basin.

FY2017 Brook Trout Conservation Funding Opportunity: The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is requesting project proposals that restore and conserve habitat necessary to support healthy and productive populations of wild brook trout.