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Emergency crews responding to possible drowning on Tellico Reservoir
Emergency personnel responded to a possible drowning in Lenoir City on Thursday evening. Emergency crews were dispatched to ...
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Body of drowning victim recovered from Tellico Reservoir
The body of a drowning victim was recovered from Tellico Reservoir in Lenoir City late Thursday, a Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency spokesperson confirmed. Emergency crews were dispatched to the ...
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"There Is, Technically, No Snail Darter," But the Snail Darter Still Delayed the Tellico Dam
In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in ...
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Many decades later, ramifications of the Tellico project endure | Sam Venable
“The little fish that could” ultimately prevailed. Yes, it lost a crushing battle over Tellico Dam. But it helped win the war by exposing environmental havoc, property rights abuse, plus the ...
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The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All
More Valentine Chapuis/Getty Images The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1967. In 1973, during construction, a group of University ...
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A Tiny, ‘Endangered’ Fish Delayed a Dam’s Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn’t So Rare After All
Instead, Near and his co-authors argue, the tiny fish known as Percina tanasi that embodied a David and Goliath battle against the Tellico Dam is an eastern population of the stargazing darter.
Seattle Times4mon
This tiny fish’s mistaken identity halted a dam’s construction
Advertising The TVA began building the Tellico Dam in 1967. Environmentalists, lawyers, farmers and the Cherokee, whose archaeological sites faced flooding, were eager to halt the project.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel2mon
The most powerful fish that never lived
They now call it the ultimate David-and-Goliath story, the little snail darter against the mighty Tellico Dam, the New Deal giant Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), powerful Senate Leader Howard ...
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The Endangered Species Act, like the plants and animals it protects, is in danger of extinction
There was no big hydroelectric dam being stopped by a little fish, except in the skewed whirl of national media commentary and anti-regulatory politics. Tellico Dam would be a very small dam in ...
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Snail darter revisited: Famous fish that halted a dam's construction is not endangered after all
In 1967, construction began on the Tellico Dam—the aim was to create a reservoir on the Little Tennessee River, approximately 20 miles southwest of Knoxville. The dam construction was led by ...
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A tiny fish that once caused an epic conservation fight is no longer under threat
The fish held up construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee for more than two years as biologists and others fought to protect its only known habitat, the free-flowing Little Tennessee River.