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 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 loss of ...

The snail darter, the small freshwater fish made famous by Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, is no longer in danger of becoming endangered and has been removed from the list of "threatened" species ...

The snail darter - a little three-inch fish that nearly swallowed TVA's Tellico Dam and became the poster child for the Endangered Species Act - has officially been saved from extinction and removed ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove the snail darter from the endangered species list due to recovery. Thanks to government and collaborative efforts, the little ...

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 ...

Bill Haltom is a Tennessee writer who resides both in Memphis and Monteagle. Over 40 years ago when I was a law student at the University of Tennessee, I became very concerned about a fish. It was a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove the snail darter from the endangered species list due to recovery. Thanks to government and collaborative efforts, the little fish is no ...