Hi Folks!

Well, our new site has been up and running for a week or so. We've gotten great feedback from some of you. Thanks! There are still some glitches and still some pages under construction. And the page has still not completely migrated to it's new home. But, we're making progress!

As the weather warms (and it's been SLOW to do so around here!), more and more fish are becoming romatically inclined. We've had rush darters and slackwater darters spawning. Our ashy darters are spawning some. These continue to be very difficult! We have rainbow darters spawning that will be used as host fish for rare mussel propagation. The Kentucky arrow darters and Cumberland darters have just begun spawning. The gilt darters (a restoration project in New York) look like they're right on the verge of doing something! Maybe the warm-up predicted for later this week will send them over the edge.

We have continued to post to our Facebook Page and we've gotten many new "Friends" since the site has been up! Thanks to all of you.

We told you about the National Geographic article last time. We continue to get some great interest in that! Joel Sartore took the photos in the article and has generously provided us with some for our site. We hope to get some more of his beautiful photos posted up in the near future. Also, Joel has a beautiful new coffee table book featuring many of America's rarest animals. The book is Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species. Some of our fish made it into the book. Please check his book out at  www.rarethebook.com.

Thanks again for your continued interest in our work!

J. R. Shute