NFWF Grant Profile

Improve soil health and water quality for aquatic species including freshwater mussels, eastern brook trout and eastern hellbender by reducing bacteria and sediment runoff on the Holston and Clinch rivers in Tazewell County, Virginia. Project will engage agricultural producers in utilizing no-till seeders, increasing forage and biomass plantings, expanding cover crop use and installing livestock exclusion fencing on 600 acres of croplands and pasturelands.