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| | Welcome to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Cookeville, Tennessee |
 | | In Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority was completing its system of dams to tame the Tennessee River, and the Corps of Engineers was completing dams on the Mississippi and Cumberland Rivers. |
 | | It’s diversity of habitats, ranging from the coastal plain lowlands of West Tennessee to the near-alpine coniferous forest in the east, harbor numerous species of fish, mussels, crayfish, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants. |
 | | Among the endangered and threatened species found only in Tennessee are such species as the Tennessee purple coneflower, Ruth’s golden aster, Spring Creek bladderpod (a plant), Nashville crayfish, bluemask darter, smoky madtom (a fish), and the Cumberland pigtoe mussel. |
| www.fws.gov /cookeville/docs/endspec_widlak.htm (1325 words) |
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