A handbook describing and illustrating some of the common animals and plants found in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and marshes.

Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is aquatic macrophytes that spend their entire life cycle submerged below the surface of the water. Six common riverine SAV species are abundant throughout the Piedmont section of Virginia and other Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern rivers. In 2004, a dam located at the fall line was removed allowing the Rappahannock to flow freely. No research has been conducted on SAV in this area of the upper Rappahannock (Piedmont)...