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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
A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
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This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
David Etnier, a dam opponent and a zoologist at the University of Tennessee, went snorkeling with students in the Little Tennessee River at Coytee Spring, not far from Tellico. There, they found a ...
Newsweek25d
The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All
began building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1967. In 1973, during construction, a group of University of Tennessee students and their biology professor discovered the snail ...
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'We've had enough of you' | TN continues battle with 4 invasive carp species spreading across the state
According to the TWRA, the most upstream report of silver carp on the Tennessee River was a ... be barriers at the dams to stop the spread and to incentivize commercial fishing of the tasty ...
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TWRA proposes dramatic change in smallmouth bass limits in Tennessee
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency biologists have proposed a dramatic change in the regulations for smallmouth bass on ...
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Frecklebelly Madtom Receives Endangered Species Protections in Georgia, Tennessee
ATLANTA— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule that protects a population of frecklebelly madtom in the Upper Coosa River of Georgia and Tennessee as threatened ... “These cool ...