On 6/23/2017 3:15 PM, David Campbell wrote:

> A familiar problem for most of us, but not usually at this scale:
> http://turnto10.com/news/local/neighbors-make-a-stink-about-road-paved-with-clamshells 

* it's said that decaying Unionids is the most loathsome odour one can 
experience. The New Brunswick Museum got complaints about the odour of 
this event -

8 August 2014 - Canada: New Brunswick: Queens County: Grand Lake, 4.9 km 
ESE Clarks Corners. 45.93070N 66.07350W HABITAT: hurricane-stripped 
gravel/clay/sand beach along sandy cottagey/swampy lakeshore. OBSERVER: 
Frederick W. Schueler, Don McAlpine, Mary Sollows. 2014/219/ja, 
Unionidae (Unionid Mussel) (Mollusca). shell, adult, dead, drift, seen, 
specimen. WAYPT/164, massive drifts of shells & rotting along beach, 
thrown up by Hurricane Arthur

- and tens of km along the shore with similar concentrations of 
mortality, which allowed us to extend the known range of an endangered 
species.

fred.
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