Emergency crews were dispatched to the Tellico Dam Boat Ramp at approximately 8 p.m. for a possible drowning incident. According to the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, preliminary reports ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The T.V.A. began building the Tellico Dam in 1967. Environmentalists, lawyers, farmers and the Cherokee, whose archaeological sites faced flooding, were eager to halt the project. In August 1973 ...

The darter's discovery, and rarity, was seized upon by opponents of the TVA's proposed Tellico Dam as a way to stop the Tennessee project. The resulting litigation went all the way up to the ...

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.

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.

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 ...