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The controversy began in 1967, when the Tennessee Valley Authority initiated construction on a dam on the Little Tennessee ...
A local university teacher, environmental activist and opponent of dams, looking for ways to stop construction of the Tellico Dam in the 1970s, was exploring the Little Tennessee River with some ...
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.
Two men were ensnared in an angler’s worst nightmare when their boat was sucked into whirling water at the base of a dam, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says.. It happened around 3 p.m ...
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 TVA v.
The controversy began in 1967, when the Tennessee Valley Authority initiated construction on a dam on the Little Tennessee River, some 20 miles southwest of Knoxville.