There was a time when the laurel dace, a type of freshwater minnow, inhabited eight streams on Walden's Ridge around Dayton and Spring City, Kuhajda said. Now, the fish inhabits just two streams.

More than 230 critically endangered Laurel Dace have been returned to their natural habitat in Southeast Tennessee after ...

Surveys in 2008 found only 460 dace remaining; thanks to a fire that decimated the Warm Springs Oasis in summer 2010, the fish's survival hangs in the balance. Because of the threats of development, ...

Last July, a prolonged regional drought caused many Southeast Tennessee streams to dwindle and, in some cases, dry up ...