Georgia's Dugdown Corridor: A 'national model' for conservation

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Bryan Hudson, a Clemson University PhD student, at work in Georgia’s Paulding Forest Wildlife Management Area. (Alphonso Whitfield/WABE)

Last year, a group of scientists and volunteers splashed up a creek in Paulding County to look for endangered fish.

It didn’t take long to find them.

With two people holding a net upright underwater and others shuffling downstream to shoo fish into it, the team hauled up a handful of Etowah darters the first time they tried.