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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 ...
Love to fish? These Middle Tennessee waters were recently stocked with trout
Dozens of locations across the state have been stocked with thousands of trout, marking the perfect time to cast a line!
Newsweek21d
The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All
The researchers announced Friday that genetic analysis found the fish to be neither a distinct ... began building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1967. In 1973, during ...
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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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Alabama’s Slenderclaw Crayfish Gains Endangered Species Act Protection With 78 River Miles of Critical Habitat
Most of the crayfish’s habitat was flooded when the Tennessee River was dammed to create the 69,000-acre ... creek bottoms and ruins clear water that everyone needs for drinking, fishing and swimming.
Reason24d
"There Is, Technically, No Snail Darter," But the Snail Darter Still Delayed the Tellico Dam
Dr. Near, also a professor who leads a fish biology lab at Yale ... Authority's plan to build the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, about 20 miles southwest of Knoxville.
Center for Biological Diversity1y
Four Freshwater Mussels, One Crayfish Proposed for Endangered Species Protection
It only uses darters as host fish. Brawleys Fork crayfish ... Rutherford and Warren counties in Tennessee in the Stones River and Collins River watersheds. The Service is still developing a proposal ...
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Contact advisory lifted for French Broad River, waters impacted by Helene
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation lifted the advisory telling people to avoid contact with bodies of ...
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Tennessee park ranger shares passion for Duck River
There’s actually more kinds of fish and mussels in the Duck River ... is because within that 280-mile stretch in Tennessee within the Duck River, it goes through a lot of different habitats ...