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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
when the Tennessee Valley Authority initiated construction on a dam on the Little Tennessee River, some 20 miles southwest of Knoxville. Environmentalists, local farmers and the Cherokee ...
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Snail Darter Swims Off Endangered List
who sought to protect the fish and its free-flowing habitat in the Little Tennessee River from construction of the controversial Tellico Dam. The dam was halted for two years, but political forces in ...