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 ...

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 ...

A bill returning historical sites in Monroe County to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians passed the U.S. House of Representatives for the fifth time.

In the 1970s, the snail darter, an unassuming, two-inch-long fish, became one of the most controversial symbols of ...

Still, political forces in Congress exempted the Tellico Dam from compliance with environmental laws by attaching a rider to the energy and water appropriations bill. Even though he opposed the ...

The land in question includes the memorials for the cities of Tanasi and Chota, once capitals of the Cherokee Nation, whose sites were flooded and destroyed when Tellico Dam was built. It also ...