Leon Stafford is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years experience at various newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. He has covered city, county and state government, business, education, technology, the arts and hospitality, among other areas, during his career.
Over the next 10 years, the North Atlantic Right Whale, the Chattooga River crayfish and the Sicklefin Redhorse fish may get some outsized attention from conservationists.
