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Blue Ridge Forever names Little Tennessee River valley to ...  -  Sep 11, 2008
Franklin Press,LTLT serves as the lead conservation organization for two of the three largest focus areas in the Conservation Vision, the upper Little Tennessee River

Old Mill RV Park appeal narrowly fails  -  Sep 26, 2008
Franklin Press,She had explained that in July 2006, the Calafiores' bought Old Mill Campground (an existing business located along the Little Tennessee River) with the

LTWA project restores Tessentee wetlands  -  Sep 4, 2008
Franklin Press,LTLT acquired the 64-acre tract of bottomland and river bluff land at the junction of Tessentee Creek and the Little Tennessee River in November of 1999.

ENTRIX and the US Forest Service  -  Sep 9, 2008
Biological Research Associates,The project is located in the Little Tennessee River basin of North Carolina and Tennessee and includes three reservoirs and two bypass reaches that border

Father/daughter team join forces for ‘The Shops at Riverwalk’  -  Sep 4, 2008
Macon County News,...be “the first of its kind in that it will be a new construction and an architecturally pleasing community of merchants along the Little Tennessee River.

Enjoy cricket frogs before they're gone  -  Aug 30, 2008
Times Herald-Record,Well, remember the 1970s snail darter fish versus the proposed Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River? After a Supreme Court reprieve, Congress let the

First Presbyterian Church marks 175 Years  -  Sep 4, 2008
Macon County News,Slaves of Macon County resident Joab Moore, who resided along the Little Tennessee River, made the bricks at the river and furnished labor for the

Weaving past, present and community  -  Aug 13, 2008
Blount Today,A large side deck that is partially covered has tables with umbrellas for patrons to relax by the Little Tennessee River. Inside to the right is a counter

County utility plans may be cure for town’s water & sewer woes  -  Aug 7, 2008
Macon County News,...county manager provided a rough cost estimate of $3.5 million – which did not include any upgrades to the town’s Little Tennessee River Lift Station.

Streams of the Smokies - Forney Creek, Part 1  -  Jul 17, 2008
Smoky Mountain Times,Two other options for access by water are launching from the ramp at the lower end of Tsali Campground on the Little Tennessee River portion of upper

Graham County offers Smoky Mountain getaway  -  Jul 18, 2008
BlueRidgeNow.com,The Twentymile Ranger Station where many hikes start is located on the north shore of Cheoah Lake, the next lake downstream along the Little Tennessee River

America's Indian problem  -  Jul 19, 2008
Merinews,Traditionalist-minded Creeks, calling themselves the Ketoowahs after the sacred Cherokee town on the Little Tennessee River, held strong antislavery

Knoxville: Little fish, big fight  -  Apr 18, 2008
Chattanooga Times Free Press,Started in order to save the snail darter, a small fish that was thought to have lived only in the Little Tennessee River and was endangered by Tennessee

Sewage leak on Little Tennessee Greenway will likely continue with ...  -  Mar 27, 2008
Macon County News,By Marla Dalrymple This gray, muddy mess is the result of a sewer spill on the Little Tennessee River Greenway which occurred earlier this month.

Vandalism escalates on Greenway; reward offered  -  Apr 23, 2008
Franklin Press,By Colin McCandless, Reporter Greenway vandals have been at it again, destroying yet more property on the Little Tennessee River Greenway in Franklin.

Tellico Dam still generating debate  -  Apr 12, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,1936: TVA lists Tellico site on Little Tennessee River (at confluence with Watts Bar and Fort Loudoun reservoirs on Tennessee River) as one of 69 potential

Sandhusen offers photo exhibit ‘of a lifetime’  -  Apr 24, 2008
Macon County News,Inspired by walks along the Little Tennessee River Greenway and visits to one of many beautiful area waterfalls, she also loves seeing old barns resting in

Reeves: Little fish halted work on big dam in '78  -  Apr 12, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,...and in August 1973, University of Tennessee zoology professor David Etnier discovered a snail darter living in the Little Tennessee River.

Trout season opens on Saturday, April 5  -  Mar 27, 2008
Macon County News,Barry Browning and son, Casey, from Franklin, fish the Little Tennessee River at the old airport trail portion of the Greenway. “It is a small,

Venable: A great investment of 25 cents  -  Apr 16, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,...arguments on whether the darter's status as an endangered species should halt completion of TVA's Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River.

ANWR's Spotted Owl  -  Apr 6, 2008
Enter Stage Right,The test case was a tiny fish called the Snail Darter, which was residing in the Little Tennessee River, which was in the process of being dammed up by the

Road across Fontana Dam closed  -  Apr 6, 2008
Asheville Citizen-Times,Lakeshore Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A hiker’s detour around the dam using the NC 28 bridge over the Little Tennessee River is marked.

Past county commissioners remember how it used to be  -  Apr 10, 2008
Macon County News,The first large reevaluation of property was done, and there was a Save the River campaign for the Little Tennessee River. The board revoked the tax-free

Merck Fund awards grants to protect landscapes  -  Nov 27, 2007
Asheville Citizen-Times,...to the Little Tennessee River basin and the headwaters of the New River, to the ecologically rich Highlands of Roan, Black Mountains and Snake Mountain.

Weeklong road closures to impact traffic  -  Nov 5, 2007
Asheville Citizen-Times,...in northern Macon County will be closed this week for repairs to a bridge over the Little Tennessee River, the state Department of Transportation says.

Railroad offers unique views of fall colors  -  Oct 20, 2007
Asheville Citizen-Times,From Bryson City on the Nantahala Gorge Excursion, the train goes across Fontana Lake on an 800-foot-long bridge and follows the Little Tennessee River into

Little Tennessee River  -  Jul 31, 2007
Cherokee Sentinel,A recent donation of a conservation easement to the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) protects close to a half mile of Little Tennessee River

Communal conservation of energy movement needed  -  Jul 23, 2007
Asheville Citizen-Times,She volunteers with the Little Tennessee River Greenway as president of the Friends of the Greenway (FROGs) in Macon County, leads nature walks and writes a

Mastering a mythical monster on a wild stretch of road  -  Aug 1, 2007
Scripps News,The winding, green-canopied highway along the Little Tennessee River gorge has been popular among locals for decades. The Internet has broadened its appeal.

Snorkeling With The Buffaloes  -  Jul 31, 2007
WBIR-TV,This happens about 5 miles downstream of Chilhowee Dam on the Little Tennessee River (which is Tellico Lake). Very few folks know about this -- outside the

Storms drench Macon County  -  Jul 27, 2007
Asheville Citizen-Times,Several rental cabins along the Little Tennessee River on NC 28 were also flooded. Light winds above the storm system likely caused it to remain over



Endangered mussel population declining  Nov 21, 2006
Biologists working in the Little Tennessee River, which runs through Macon and Swain counties and forms the Graham-Swain border, are noting an inexplicable and ... - Asheville Citizen-Times,

Biologists worried by decline in endangered mussel  Nov 23, 2006
...working in Macon and Swain counties say they're alarmed -- and baffled -- by a decline in the population of an endangered mussel in the Little Tennessee River. ... - WWAY NewsChannel 3,

Cowee mound purchase saves heritage, river  Oct 31, 2006
...important to everyone in that it is one more link in the campaign by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee to preserve the upper Little Tennessee River basin ... - Asheville Citizen-Times,

Local group takes to the mountains on Segways  Nov 6, 2006
Hancock offers tours of the Greenway along the Little Tennessee River for nature enthusiasts interested in experiencing the flora and fauna from a different ... - Dublin Courier Herald,

Segway tours go off-road and onto the greenway  Nov 14, 2006
...looking up. A three-hour tour along the Little Tennessee River Greenway runs $44, and includes a bottle of water and snack. Right ... - DetNews.com,

Back on Home Turf  Nov 3, 2006
When the Tennessee Valley Authority dammed the Little Tennessee River and created Fontana Lake in the 1940s, several small communities were flooded. ... - Washington Post,

10-year-old boy helps steer school bus to safety  25 Sep 2002
...working in Macon and Swain counties say they're alarmed -- and stumped -- by a decline in the population of an endangered mussel in the Little Tennessee River. ... - Charlotte Observer,

Endangered mussel population declining  Nov 21, 2006
Biologists working in the Little Tennessee River, which runs through Macon and Swain counties and forms the Graham-Swain border, are noting an inexplicable and ... - Asheville Citizen-Times,

Biologists worried by decline in endangered mussel  Nov 23, 2006
...working in Macon and Swain counties say they're alarmed -- and baffled -- by a decline in the population of an endangered mussel in the Little Tennessee River. ... - WWAY NewsChannel 3,

Cowee mound purchase saves heritage, river  Oct 31, 2006
...important to everyone in that it is one more link in the campaign by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee to preserve the upper Little Tennessee River basin ... - Asheville Citizen-Times,

Local group takes to the mountains on Segways  Nov 6, 2006
Hancock offers tours of the Greenway along the Little Tennessee River for nature enthusiasts interested in experiencing the flora and fauna from a different ... - Dublin Courier Herald,

Segway tours go off-road and onto the greenway  Nov 14, 2006
...looking up. A three-hour tour along the Little Tennessee River Greenway runs $44, and includes a bottle of water and snack. Right ... - DetNews.com,

Back on Home Turf  Nov 3, 2006
When the Tennessee Valley Authority dammed the Little Tennessee River and created Fontana Lake in the 1940s, several small communities were flooded. ... - Washington Post,
LTLT helps conserve 53-acre historic farm Mar 15, 2006
LTLT) recently acquired a “working farm conservation easement� protecting 53 acres of rich bottomland and a half-mile of Little Tennessee River frontage on ...
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News,

Dying toads may indicate extinction crisis Mar 15, 2006
In the United States, discovery of the tiny snail darter fish delayed construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River after it was listed as ...
Namibian,

Western Carolina hosts conference on social history in the ... Mar 8, 2006
...supremacy; social capital and activism in the New Urban South; service learning and The Keener Cemetery; and land disputes in the Little Tennessee River Valley ...
Asheville Citizen-Times,

Preserve land sales opposed Mar 4, 2006
...more than 600 acres are adjacent to the scenic Needmore tract, 4,400 acres of newly acquired mountain gameland along the Little Tennessee River in North ...
Charlotte Observer,

Queen triggerfish catch tops SC record Mar 2, 2006
Stanback has given millions of dollars for land protection programs, including the Needmore Tract along Little Tennessee River, protection of 20,566 acres ...
Charlotte Observer,

Winners of Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards announced Mar 2, 2006
He has donated millions of dollars to fund land protection programs, including protection of the Needmore Tract along the Little Tennessee River (4,467 acres ...
New Bern Sun Journal,

Protecting nature is an obligation, not a privilege Mar 12, 2006
In 1975, the Fish and Wildlife Service designated the Little Tennessee River as "critical habitat" the fish needed if it was to avoid extinction. ...
Poughkeepsie Journal,
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