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.

As a pre-teen, I knew all about the absurd late-1970s situation where litigation over the supposedly endangered snail darter fish was delaying completion of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee ...

LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (WATE) — The body of a drowning victim was recovered from Tellico Reservoir in Lenoir City late Thursday, a Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency spokesperson confirmed. Emergency ...

Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee described an “awful beast” in 1979. That beast—which he also called “the bane of my existence, the nemesis of my golden years, the bold perverter of the Endangered ...

Phylogenetic relationships based on genomic data and the results of PCAs using morphological data for each of the sister-species pairs examined in this study. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: ...

Emergency personnel responded to a possible drowning in Lenoir City on Thursday evening. Emergency crews were dispatched to the Tellico Dam Boat Ramp at approximately 8 p.m. for a possible drowning ...

A tiny fish that averages only 2.5 inches in length derailed political careers, delayed construction of a massive dam and reservoir, caused a U.S. Supreme Court landmark case and prompted legislation ...

Introduction : the Supreme Court decision -- The TVA and the Tellico Dam -- New environmental protections -- The NEPA litigation -- The discovery of the Snail Darter -- Battle before the Supreme Court ...

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection Title, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution. National Congress of American ...